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| Thread ID: 47151 | 2004-07-17 11:49:00 | Rant: Win XP pro/home sucks! | stu120404 (268) | Press F1 |
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| 253055 | 2004-07-19 07:07:00 | >>Runs DVDs fine in Win98 but they're immensly jerky in WinXP Surely not Graham. Microsoft says XP is the fastest Windows yet, so how can that be true :) |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 253056 | 2004-07-19 07:14:00 | Its Chill, and Bill Gates also said "nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM" :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 253057 | 2004-07-19 07:40:00 | > Its Chill, and Bill Gates also said "nobody will ever > need more than 640k RAM" :p I'm waiting for the free hardware Bill said we'll have.......................... |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 253058 | 2004-07-19 09:40:00 | I'm with godfather on this one. You must've done something wrong stu. Though admittedly, it does run a whole lot nicer with 512MB of RAM. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 253059 | 2004-07-19 09:47:00 | > I'm with godfather on this one. You must've done > something wrong stu. Though admittedly, it does run a > whole lot nicer with 512MB of RAM. Indeed! Especially with a 192 Ramdisk thats just for Swapfile :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 253060 | 2004-07-20 06:14:00 | > Did you upgrade XP over the top of Win ME Stu? Nope, I got a brand new hard drive so I & dads install XP on to the new hard drive > Stu . . . . I think its time for you to do a rebuild > (format C:\) . Windows gets junked up after a while of > normal use . Hehe, lol, I have only had XP install for 32 days (+ or - a day) & I have not even had time to finch moving all my stuff off my old hard drive! > Stu, this has been done many times over . some basic > mantinance never hurt anyone, Like what? Scan disk is hopeless… > andspyware won't help > either :| No, spyware / ad-aware, can touch this computer :D (as I am running Ad-aware 6 & Spybot - Search & Destroy 1 . 2 & using where every possible using Mozilla Firefox ) also I have AVG Anti-Virus > please give us all your system info, me thinks its > more to do with your setup then your CPU speed . Like what system info do you want to know? > how much disk have you got?? how is it split up?? I think I have a 40 GB Hard drive (format to NTFS) split in two C: Capacity 14 . 6 GB Free: 7 . 36 GB Used: 7 . 28 GB E: My Data drive Capacity: 22 . 6 GB Used: 3 . 64 GB Free: 18 . 9 GB > how many apps or programs do you have running at a > time? At the moment I have 8 programs open & a few with more then 3 windows open e . g . 5 windows explores windows open 4 Firefox tabs open 4 Smart FTP tabs open 2 e-mail & OE open > I'm with godfather on this one . You must've done > something wrong stu . Though admittedly, it does run a > whole lot nicer with 512MB of RAM . Yeath, I know I am hoping that dad will give me 512MB of RAM, but I don’t think I will be nagging him about that for a wee while yet, as if I do I could loss my Win Me Drive :(, long story… . |
stu120404 (268) | ||
| 253061 | 2004-07-20 08:36:00 | What applications do you have listed under Start, Run, msconfig, Startup? | tommy (2826) | ||
| 253062 | 2004-07-20 11:49:00 | Well your problem is you are running all the spyware killers in the background which waste a) memory b) cpu time c) hard disk time. It's no wonder you have poor performance. Also your hard drive is probably a 5400rpm with <2mb cache. A huge performance increase could be gained by simply getting a 7200rpm + 8mb cache drive. Also if you plain upgraded over WinME instead of a fresh install, well I don't even want to go there... |
kiki (762) | ||
| 253063 | 2004-07-20 12:38:00 | Stu, you might like to try an unattended installation of Windows XP. It's much nicer when you're able to have that level of customisation of XP right from the install stage - the key thing being moving Documents and Settings to a drive and folder of your choice. In that way, you can reduce your C: to something as small as 3GB, leaving all data and other programs to go on your other partition. If set up correctly, it can reduce hard drive access times compared to what may be currently experiencing. Try a Google search, there's plenty of documentation on unattended installs on the XP CD itself - and while you can spend up to four hours going through every option, the end result is a cleaner product to start with. |
agent (30) | ||
| 253064 | 2004-07-20 12:54:00 | something else that can cause win to take ages to load is if you try to load drivers for conflicting hardware. The problem occurs when there is only a mild conflict so all the H/W still goes, but windows spends years trying to figure out how to use the conflicting devices. This problem mainly occurs between graphics/network/sound setups, but other things can cause it too. | Bletch (244) | ||
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