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Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 20th 07, 08:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

I think that I have enough info from this thread now. I found myself writing
the below, and realised I had become more involved with the thread than the
problem!

Thanks for all your...

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 19th 07, 06:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

big snip
Do I have to format the existing partition and therefore lose all the user
settings and non-windows programs (AVG, SPybot, Firewall) (I think I already...

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 19th 07, 01:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

"ANONYMOUS" wrote:

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:25:22 +0100, ANONYMOUS
wrote:

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 18th 07, 07:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

Thanks Ken

I have also had 95, 98 and XP boxes. Each of them seemed to get slower as
time went on (I admit 'seemed to get slower' is hardly scientific, but I
think a 12 minute restart is such that...

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 17th 07, 11:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

Hi

Thanks for this. I think this is the bit I don't fully understand. Does a
clean install of the OS trash all your user settings etc? If so, so be it,
because the machine is so slow now that it's...

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 17th 07, 10:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

Thanks Ron

We got the laptop new (so I have all the disks etc.) and my first steps were
to put the AV and firewall on it, so I doubt it's that I have inherited
anything.

Can you tell me when I...

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 17th 07, 09:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

Thanks very much for the reply. I will try this, but I am wary about not
starting a firewall, and it still seems that 5 mins is a long time for a
restart, even without loading any programs.

"db...

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 17th 07, 09:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 6

MS suggests BIOS upgrade

Views: 177

Posted By ubername

MS suggests BIOS upgrade

I have recently upgraded my bios on a couple of machines. Both of these had
floppy drives attached which helped. These guidelines assume you do, too.

This is not a full How-To, just my recollection...

Forum: General XP issues or comments

September 17th 07, 08:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Replies: 23

laptop is very slow

Views: 340

Posted By ubername

laptop is very slow

Hi

My partner has a Dell inspiron l6000 laptop
1.3GHz Intell celeron processor
248 Mb RAM
(Information gleaned from 'My Computer' properties)

It takes about 12 minutes to restart.
These are the...

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