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stuppy
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Hi there!
Ok, I have used XP on and off since RC1 - I have a Final Build Copy of XP Pro which i have used a few times but the most it has been installed on my hard-drive is about a month. The Reason? well...
After getting some programs installed on there it just seems to slow down a lot. The most annoying things i think are >>
- Menu's. I use the standard windows theme (like 2k/Me/98 etc) and i find that when clicking Start > Programs, it has to read the hard-drive to get the listing and it slows the Computer down, and although you might think this to be nothing, its really annoying.
Also, like to have all my commonly used programs on the taskbar in a button thing, and that takes ages to open up (ages = a second
).
secondly
- getting directory listings. Opening a folder with lots of files and stuff in it takes ages to read (again ages = 2-3 seconds) and it does my head in.
Is there anyway to stop this??
My Computer is :
AMD Duron 900mhz
256meg mem
40gig hdd
64meg geforce 2 pro
all the rest of the bundle
i have defraged my partitions, messed witht he swap file settings, disabled some of the visual things like shadows etc etc but to no avail! Even disabled the Indexing Service
Thanks in advance
Stuppy - btw, Windows 2000 and Millennium run fine without these 2 problems, just XP
Ok, I have used XP on and off since RC1 - I have a Final Build Copy of XP Pro which i have used a few times but the most it has been installed on my hard-drive is about a month. The Reason? well...
After getting some programs installed on there it just seems to slow down a lot. The most annoying things i think are >>
- Menu's. I use the standard windows theme (like 2k/Me/98 etc) and i find that when clicking Start > Programs, it has to read the hard-drive to get the listing and it slows the Computer down, and although you might think this to be nothing, its really annoying.
Also, like to have all my commonly used programs on the taskbar in a button thing, and that takes ages to open up (ages = a second
).secondly
- getting directory listings. Opening a folder with lots of files and stuff in it takes ages to read (again ages = 2-3 seconds) and it does my head in.
Is there anyway to stop this??
My Computer is :
AMD Duron 900mhz
256meg mem
40gig hdd
64meg geforce 2 pro
all the rest of the bundle
i have defraged my partitions, messed witht he swap file settings, disabled some of the visual things like shadows etc etc but to no avail! Even disabled the Indexing Service
Thanks in advance
Stuppy - btw, Windows 2000 and Millennium run fine without these 2 problems, just XP
