XP Pro slow browsing

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I have recently upgraded (ha ha) from win 95 to XP Pro at
my office, when I am calling up a job stored on the
network or save over the network, it takes ages, Win 95
done it in the blink of your eye but XP puts up a torch
and makes you wait between 30 seconds (fastest so far)
and 80 seconds (average). This is really driving me up
the wall, I have got in the habbit of saving my work
every few minutes, it was meant to make my life better
not worse, I now have to put in more hours to actually
achive less, I have emailed Microsoft but they just tell
me to use the message board, so is there anyone who can
help me in any way, or should I ditch XP and try for a
refund and go back to 95.
 
Graham said:
I have recently upgraded (ha ha) from win 95 to XP Pro at
my office, when I am calling up a job stored on the
network or save over the network, it takes ages, Win 95
done it in the blink of your eye but XP puts up a torch
and makes you wait between 30 seconds (fastest so far)
and 80 seconds (average). This is really driving me up
the wall, I have got in the habbit of saving my work
every few minutes, it was meant to make my life better
not worse, I now have to put in more hours to actually
achive less, I have emailed Microsoft but they just tell
me to use the message board, so is there anyone who can
help me in any way, or should I ditch XP and try for a
refund and go back to 95.
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95 to XP is one helluva jump - did you run the Upgrade Advisor (available on
the CD) before installation? Did you check to see if your hardware meets (or
exceeds) the minimum requirements? If your computer was new when 95 was
released, no wonder you're having problems! I'm not sure XP would run on an
eight year old system! In fact, I *know* it wouldn't!

This isn't a Windows issue - it's more likely your system isn't up to the
task. You really should have done some homework before parting with your
cash - it's unlikely any store would give you a refund on opened software
(especially if it was your fault).
 
Hi thanks for your reply, I think it really is an XP
issue. Both PC exceed the requirements of XP or as you
say they would not work, they are not very old machines I
just chose to have 95 put on them, I also bought 2 Dell
Dimensions (brand new) and these also are very slow
browsing the network. I have 8 PC's on a domain 1 on Win
NT4 Server 2 running Win NT4 Workstation, 4 running Win
XP Pro, and an old one on Win 95, the NT4 Server NT4
Workstation and Win 95 are all ok but the 4 using Win XP
are all slow, I never had any browsing issues until XP
was put on, so it seems to me that Windows XP does not do
what it is sold to do, that is to compute fast, so I am
sure I have a good point for a refund, but I would rather
stay with it and get them up to at least as fast as the
others.

If anyone has any constructive help it would be
appreciated.

Graham
 
Are the computers connected to a router a switch or a hub?
 
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