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51918	2002-06-01 08:22:00	I've had xp on a 1300mhz, 128mb, 40gig hd, HP for a month now and have realised that it's slower than my old w98, 333mhz, 160mb, 6gig, hp I had before! does anyone recon that I'll speed things up if I got another 128mb ram or should I go back to w98?? ps, they're both celerons	Guest (0)
51919	2002-06-01 09:48:00	yes upgrade the ram as 128 in minimum for XP. there are also several tweaks out for XP.	Guest (0)
51920	2002-06-01 11:05:00	Definitely. I have a machine with almost identical specs as yours. It was also a pig under XP. I uninstalled the indexing service which took 25 seconds off my boot-up time, and made general perfomance increases. I then added 256mb RAM to my 128mb. I gained another 8 seconds on boot-up (from the time the bios is finished to I have a working desktop with all start-up apps loaded in 35sec - before it was 1min 5sec) General performance, however was the greatest improvement with the extra RAM. my apps now open immediately. I used to wait 3 or so seconds even for IE to open, now it is instantaneous. Get the bloody RAM! G P	Guest (0)
51921	2002-06-02 01:48:00	Yuck..XP! Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Yuck, Chuck. Go back to Win98SE (or upgrade to Linux if you don't mind some education). Oh, and get the RAM anyway... :-)	Guest (0)
51922	2002-06-02 03:15:00	I take it you've had xp and didn't like it then Geoff? It doesn't seem too different to 98 apart from all the crashes and re-starts every five minutes that I don't have to do any more. And no I don't fancy putting even more time in, than I am already trying to get the damn comp to do what it's suppose to do... buying a bit of ram seems much easier!! toodle-pip	Guest (0)
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