XP prob or software prob?

[ming]

I've had to format and 'restore' a backup copy of my C: drive recently and noticed that quite a few of the softwares take longer to start up. Not only that, the software I got for the Sony MD deck freezes with every click i make once it manages to load up.

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Have you done a scan disk & defrag since restoring?

 

[ming]

yes, I've done defrag and scandisk.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Any needed updates from Microsoft need installing?

 

[karl_axe]

maybe the "new XP" needs time to understand and be familiar with your software and hardware.

 

[ming]

all updates have been installed...

just dont understand why its like this. i dont want to make a fresh install of windows xp coz it'll take years to complete all the software installations.

 

[X-Istence]

southpark: Ever heard of Ghosts? That is what you can do, you make a ghost, reformat C and put the ghost back, reformat C and put the ghost back, now that is how you can keep your C drive and main OS working even if something goes wrong, all you do is put the old one back .

 

[ming]

exactly... i've used Ghost to back up and restore everything.

you think it only takes 1 hour to install about 10-20 different software on a computer?
even if it's less than 10, think of all the drivers and updates you need to install/reboot and the time it takes to download all of them.
installing windows alone takes 30-39 mins, and just downloading all the updates from windows update takes a good 20 minutes at least.

 

[ming]

the only prob im having as you should know by now is that the softwares are not loading/running like what they should do if everything were installed from fresh.

 

[hsmit]

simple question - are you virus proteted, and updated?