Very slow windows xp

Is your Windows XP fully up to date? Are all your hardware drivers up to date? If you can help by answering some and or all of that, it will give us all a good starting point! Searching our forums isn't a bad idea, but I'm kind of proactive when it comes to computers, so if you can, answer the above and we will see what happens! Reactions: learninmypc.

You sir, are a true gentleman. I'll be posting a similar problem soon and would be very much appreciative on some guidance from the forum gurus.

As GBhall mentioned, this issue has been documented since This would, in effect, require hours of searching to try and find a relevant set of issues. If a senior forum member, better versed and more learned on the subject, with knowledge of said issues and there discussion, is able to direct a person to the most relevant information quickly Well; it really does help us "little people" and we do appreciate the gesture.

Try to delete temp files. I think this will increase your speed. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads A. Replies 8 Views 2K. Aug 27, al davis. Possible Remote Control. Previous Next. Divya R. Hi Robert Hodgins,. Use this link if you are using Windows XP: How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" state Note: After troubleshooting, make sure to put the computer to start as usual as mentioned here: To configure Windows to use a Normal startup state After you used the clean boot to resolve your problem, you can follow these steps to configure Windows XP to start normally.

Click Start , and then click Run. When you are prompted, click Restart to restart the computer. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Gerry C J Cornell. In reply to Divya R's post on May 23, Why would you not consider Win 7? I have to get back to you on the other parts as i am using my own personal computer as i type this.

In reply to Robert Hodgins's post on May 23, What is the computer model? How old is it? Since the MS Answers forums doesn't prompt for any system information when a new question is asked, we know nothing about your system - except it is a Dell laptop with XP Professional. I think Dell makes at least 5 kinds of laptops.

If you want to tell us more and eliminate guessing, do this: Please provide additional information about your system as best you can: What is your system make and model? For video driver information, expand the Components, click Display, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here. There will be some personal information like System Name and User Name , and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information.

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Robert Is it as slow in safe mode? I dont know have not started it in safe mode.. I will try it that way. Intel Pentium 1. See :- viewtopic. It's a pity you installed XP with only one core though. You have a 4 core host, so you could have given it two. People are not used to single core lag any more. Re: Windows XP very slow by mpack » Sat May 05, am Well, that would certainly be a problem if it was the only suggestion instead of a minor aside.

Windows Update will be the main reason. Good to know that the OS isn't as slow as the last part of the installation process where I had to wait for around 5 minutes for one segment of it to load.