Re: home XP slow and goopy

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"Nitro" <glycerine@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i'm running XP home on a sony VAIO laptop. had it for about 3 years.
it's running slower and slower all the time. boot is slower. little
right-click context menu moves w the mouse can take forever. i click on
"desktop" icon in a file-save dialog and it literally takes 5 seconds for
dktop to appear in browser.
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Steve, my heart goes out to you.
In this bizarre world of computers, "upgrading", "downloading" and
blah-blah-blah, you'd think they'd make a computer smart enough and simple
enough that it would maintain itself, then we wouldn't have to spend endless
hours searching google and newsgroups for foolish reg hacks to "fix" what
should have never been broken.

my old win98 systems used to run smarter and faster than this incredibly
bloated self-sustaining pathology passed off as "progress" by Microsoft.
The Sony VAIO computer was advertised as a multi-media king when it first
came out, now it's a bloated peasant, dragging its ass in the dust. It's 2
gig processor and "centrino" technology may as well be put out to pasture.

to answer DL's post, I've got a 68 gig HD, of which 10 are free. I just ran
disk cleanup, which has freed about half a gig of space. I do have a RAM
issue, I've got 512 M on a sys that supports 2 gigs. I will indeed upgrade
this. but RAM or no RAM, the computer has still slowed down hugely in the
3 years I've had it.

The only other answer I can come up with is to wipe out the OS and do a
system restore with the VAIO system backup and update XP in one clean sweep,
before re-installing apps.

thanks for your comments

Nitro


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