speed

[Wolfgang Wollet]

I like to keep my Windows current so I recently upgraded
to XP Home from Windows ME. The promise was that xp would
be faster in reality I lost about 75% of the speed to
load my programs, especially AOL and Corel Draw. XP takes
about 5 times as long to start up than my previous ME.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a way for me to just get
rid of all the upgrades done without having to reload all
programms and data?
Any help is appreciated.
Wolfgang

[Jon]

"Wolfgang Wollet" > wrote in message =
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> I like to keep my Windows current so I recently upgraded=20
> to XP Home from Windows ME. The promise was that xp would=20
> be faster in reality I lost about 75% of the speed to=20
> load my programs, especially AOL and Corel Draw. XP takes=20
> about 5 times as long to start up than my previous ME.=20
> What am I doing wrong? Is there a way for me to just get=20
> rid of all the upgrades done without having to reload all=20
> programms and data?
> Any help is appreciated.
> Wolfgang

System specs would be helpful.