XP Very slow

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From: Martin Racette (rat7_2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:28:00 -0500

Hi,

I'm having a weird problem, about a month ago I moved my system from a SCSI
drive to an IDE one (which is bigger), the system became suddently very slow the
CPU seem to get to 100% and stays there for some time and then the system get
back a something close to normal, and then again it gets back to 100%.

Those symptoms occur what ever I do, even just browsing the web in a full text
page.

I would like for it to be back to normal. Right now my notebook is close to be 3
times faster than my desktop, and it's supposed to be the opposite

BTW. I ran 3 chkdsk /f on all of my drives, defragmented all, did a repair
install, and re-installing the whole system is NOT an options since there are
too many accounts and other settings to re-create, it would take at least a year
before I could be close to functionnal 

-- 
Thank you in Advance
Merci a l'Avance
Martin

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