General Slow Performance Windows XP

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Our company installed Windows XP Professional some time
ago and it seems that a lot of actions (including simple
things like switching between programmes, print previews,
saving large files etc) go generally a bit slower than
under Windows 2000. Its not dramatically slower, but its
annoying when you work with XP all day.

I already disabled the interface components (the fancy XP
stuff), but this didnt seem to have much of an effect. I
also try not to run too many programmes at the same time,
but again this doesnt have a positive effect.

The computers we use have 128MB RAM and 2.26Mhz, Pentium 4
CPU. Is this too little to work smoothly with XP?


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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:03:39 -0800, "Hans"

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The computers we use have 128MB RAM and 2.26Mhz, Pentium 4
CPU. Is this too little to work smoothly with XP?
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My experience with Win XP Pro was that things speeded up quite well
after I upgraded from 128M to 256M of RAM. I believe 128M is the
absolute minimum for XP.

I also found removing the eye candy had little effect. I switched to
Classic mode for a while, but found no noticeable speed increase so
went back to XP theme after the memory upgrade.

You may get some improvement by turning off unessential services or
changing some to manual. XP default turns on a lot of stuff that not
everyone needs.

Check it out on:
http://www.blackviper.com/

under Windows XP Services.
 
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