On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:15:19 -0700, "relic" wrote:

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:37:09 -0700, "chrisv"
wrote:

Penang wrote:
Even on cold boot it takes more than 5 minutes for XP to get
everything back in shape, ready to be used.

I have tried everything, from defragmenting the HD to "cleaning" the
registry to even defragmenting the registry, and it's STILL so slow.

Software wise, I don't use too many. Just the typical office thingy,
that's all.

What else should I do to speed up my XP machine --- a 4-core CPU
with 4GB of RAM ?

So far, two have advised you to Format and start over with a fresh
install. Let me be the third one. All the other crap will just spin
your wheels.



My view is that that's terrible advice. It *might* be the best thing
to do, but certainly not without having any idea of what's causing the
problem.

It's XP. That's what XP does... get slower and slower.



You may believe whatever you want to believe. It's not my experience
at all, and I completely disagree with that statement. XP gets slower
and slower only on the computers of people who do everything with it
wrong.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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