On May 10, 2005, at 6:11 AM, Farren Minns wrote:

Hi all

One of our 5.1.6.0 Windows 2000 clients has started running very
slowly.
The data transfer rate is fine, but the length of time it's taking
to check
through it's files has increased from approximately two hours to over
seven. Any ideas where I can look to see what's happening here?

The usual stuff...  A large increase in the file system population,
lousy directory topology, changes in virus scanning, Windows Event
Log issues, disk contention with other applications, swap space added
to the same disk or path, etc.  If nothing seems out of the ordinary,
consider running a chkdsk or the equivalent on the file system, to
ferret out any defects contributing to performance drag.

  Richard Sims