Re: New Installation of XP exceptionally slow.

[marty]

how about givin some real info...not just your whatever...memory, processor,
etc.....so far you have provided absolutely N O T H I N G.....


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[Michael Stevens]

Severus wrote:
> I installed by converting my Win98 Fat32 filesystem to NTFS and the
> install took a very long time and when finally booting into XP it was
> very slow, so... I formatted the partition and did a fresh install:
> same thing.
>
> Program load times appear to be fine, but when moving a window across
> the screen the redraw rate is very slow. I see it wipe away from it's
> current position and wipe into the target position. Unbearable! I'm
> not sure exactly where to begin looking so I would appreciate help.


Is the system up to the task of running XP? You didn't state your computers
specs, so it is hard to give specific suggestions. Ram is a very important,
and should be at the minimum 128 with 512 giving very good performance.
If you want to list your system specs, we can help you better.
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