Slow response doing anything on the computer. WTF?

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Everything ran just fine before with the old hard drive.
Installed a new HD into a duron 800, 184ram, intergrated video. The old
drive was dying but functions ran just fine.

Now windows XP pro ( which may be the cause ) is loaded onto a freshly
formated 80 gig maxtor

The Problem: When clicking any icon to run a program, it takes a long time.
I click 'internet explorer' and 10 seconds later the page finally comes on
screen and slowly loads up.
( using XP pro or the intergrated 8 or 16 meg video card may be a factor
???)

What could be done to fix this ?
Thank you
 
Everything ran just fine before with the old hard drive.
Installed a new HD into a duron 800, 184ram, intergrated video. The old
drive was dying but functions ran just fine.

Now windows XP pro ( which may be the cause ) is loaded onto a freshly
formated 80 gig maxtor

The Problem: When clicking any icon to run a program, it takes a long time.
I click 'internet explorer' and 10 seconds later the page finally comes on
screen and slowly loads up.
( using XP pro or the intergrated 8 or 16 meg video card may be a factor
???)

What could be done to fix this ?
Thank you
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You might check Window's Event Viewer to see if anything is
listed.

One possibility is that the cable is damaged or not plugged
in good, etc. You might also re-examing the rest of the
system interior to confirm nothing else was disturbed while
swapping drives.
 
Windows XP is ram hog. You really need 512M ram to run it. 184 is definitely
not enough.
formated 80 gig maxtor


 
Windows XP is ram hog. You really need 512M ram to run it. 184 is definitely
not enough.
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^^^^ that makes me think there's another problem.

184MB isn't much these days but then again XP can be reigned
in to weigh under 90MB booted to desktop, leaving 94MB to
run quite a few IE windows, office, etc (typical light-duty
uses). Seems like something else is happening, for all we
know maybe even new spyware/viri infection that's just
coincidentally happened parallel to the HDD swap... harder
to troubleshoot remotely.
 
Brad:
The Problem: When clicking any icon to run a program, it takes a long
time. I click 'internet explorer' and 10 seconds later the page
finally comes on screen and slowly loads up.
Click to expand...

Check under device manager to make sure the drive is working in Ultra DMA
mode and not PIO mode. If it's in PIO mode, delete the IDE port from
device manager and reboot.
 
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