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Anyone know why it takes so damn long when ya right-click on anything on
the desktop, for it to respond? I can take a coffee break before I can
explore my computer! :D
 
Cottonmouth said:
Anyone know why it takes so damn long when ya right-click on
anything on the desktop, for it to respond? I can take a coffee
break before I can explore my computer! :D
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See the response to your other posting and provide the requested
information.

If you do not know how to obtain the requested information, you might be
able to copy some of it (not all - as it contains information you do not
want to share with everyone) using the free product "Belarc Advisor"...

http://belarc.com/Programs/advisor.exe
 
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Cottonmouth said:
Anyone know why it takes so damn long when ya right-click on anything on
the desktop, for it to respond? I can take a coffee break before I can
explore my computer! :D
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You have something jaming up your system.

Could be anything.

When did you last do a clean install?
 
Cottonmouth said:
Anyone know why it takes so damn long when ya right-click on anything on
the desktop, for it to respond? I can take a coffee break before I can
explore my computer! :D
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Is there a lot of hard drive activity during that delay? Perhaps your
computer is needing the swap file a lot and need to expand your main
RAM. It recently only cost me about $55 US for 2GB (not including
shipping). The expansion from 512MB to 2 GB reduced swap file delays
quite a bit.
 
I recommend going into the control panel,
system, advanced
and setting for best performance.
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I did this and it did seem to improve the response time a little. At
least now I don't doze off waiting.. ;)
To run XP decently you will need a lot more RAM than win98
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Right now I have 384meg but am getting a much better motherboard for
Xmas. I'm just trying to limp along till then. ( No, I'm not waiting for
Santy Claus. I'm 61 yrs. old, but I did whine to my sister and she's
springing for the motherboard.) :D
BTW: Did you (in your other post) literally mean that you had a win98
installation
and upgraded it to XP...
or was your XP a fresh install?

If it was not a fresh install

I'd recommend backing up your data and performing a fresh install
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I may have made a dumb mistake, but my installation disk says "Upgrade"
and I didn't think I could do a clean install with it. Can I?
 
Is there a lot of hard drive activity during that delay? Perhaps your
computer is needing the swap file a lot and need to expand your main
RAM. It recently only cost me about $55 US for 2GB (not including
shipping). The expansion from 512MB to 2 GB reduced swap file delays
quite a bit.
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As I said in another reply, I have 384meg of ram(3x128). There didn't seem
to be too much disk activity. Of course, I have disk activity even when I'm
doing absolutely nothing on the computer.

Come Xmas, I'll heal up and be all better.. I hope. :D

Thanks for the reply! :)
 
Cottonmouth said:
I did this and it did seem to improve the response time a little. At
least now I don't doze off waiting.. ;)


Right now I have 384meg but am getting a much better motherboard for
Xmas. I'm just trying to limp along till then. ( No, I'm not waiting for
Santy Claus. I'm 61 yrs. old, but I did whine to my sister and she's
springing for the motherboard.) :D


I may have made a dumb mistake, but my installation disk says "Upgrade"
and I didn't think I could do a clean install with it. Can I?
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I am going to guess that your new MB is going to be upgraded to the newer
technology, in which case you will be upgrading more then just your MB.

Get ready.
 
If you still have your win98 cd (any previous version will work, such as
win95 or ME or win2k)
the XP upgrade disk can be used to perform a fresh install...

you will be asked to insert a cd with the qualifying product. (Will not
work with a factory restore cd though)

When you get your new mobo
the best thing to do is a fresh install.
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I do have my old Win98SE full install CD and will most likely do a fresh
install. Why not? I seem to have spent the last 18 years installing and
re-installing Windows of one variety or another. :D

Thanks Philo!
 
I am going to guess that your new MB is going to be upgraded to the
newer technology, in which case you will be upgrading more then just
your MB.

Get ready.
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Yeah, that's true. One of these days I'm going to walk into a store and buy
a 'whole' computer system. So far, I've just bought a new can and filled it
myself. ;)
 
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