Re: windows XP exctreemly slow

Replying on the memory math: It may be that your video Ram is actually 'on
board' and therefore taken from your available system Ram (Example" 256 MB
Ram - 32MB Video Ram = 224MB 'available'). This is my situation with my
Compaq R3060 Laptop. It takes 64MB from EACH of 2 x 256MB memory sticks, so
my 512MB actually works out to 383MB available, grrr... but I hope this
helped :-)

"Michael" wrote:

> With that 224MB RAM you cannot get a lot of speed - don't see how you got
> 224MB, 32+64+128?
> Also, it's not clear if only the Internet connection is slow (modem, ISP,
> phone line etc) or the whole system?
> All in all, on a system like that, it takes about 2 hours to do a clean
> install of XP+SP2 - better slipstream SP2 in XP.
> Michael
>
> "hfmedia" <hfmedia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CF6EC672-C9AE-42E4-B839-62DE79F4E6E8@microsoft.com...
> > I'm in the same boat too. Came here hoping to find some answers. I'll
> > keep
> > looking through the posts, but thought I'd put my info in here as well.
> > I've
> > been slow about two weeks also. Couldn't open any web pages because they
> > kept
> > timing out. Everything just seemed to start getting slower and slower.
> >
> > I did install the windows pack 2 in this time range. I also installed
> > Norton Internet 2004 even more recently (I had Norton but it was out of
> > date)
> > thinking there might be a problem with a virus. It said there was no
> > problem. Things just seemed to get even slower though.
> >
> > I decided to try and restore my computer to an earlier time. It kept
> > failing. Then I looked for an answer to that. I read somewhere that
> > restore
> > would't let me go back to a time when I had a virus. SO I thought that
> > might
> > be the reason I couldn't restore.
> >
> > Things didn't get better and I decided to take Norton off because I
> > thought
> > it might be two conflicting firewalls (I did turn off the Windows
> > firewall.
> > but thought there might be another somewhere on my computer or something
> > else
> > with Norton making things even slower. After doing that I could get to
> > some
> > webpages where I couldn't go previously, so maybe Norton was part of the
> > deal. But still no speed.
> >
> > Even hitting reply to this page seemed to take about ten seconds. And I
> > don;t have Norton on my computer even now. I have a Compaq presario
> > 6010US
> > AMD XP 1600+ 1.4 GHz, 224 MB ram
> >
> > I think I will put norton back on and see if I can tweak it to allow the
> > pages I want to open. I want to be protected. I guess it wasn't Norton
> > either since things are stil slow. Could it be the pack 2? It didn't
> > seem
> > to correlate exactly with that, but it was within a week of that it
> > started
> > slowing, which was right when I put on Norton. Sorry to ramble.
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