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Name: richjt Date: June 25, 2008 at 01:24:13 Pacific OS: vista CPU/Ram: 3.0 512
Comment:
Opening programs in the start menu used to work then went down to browser and acrobat but not word etc. Quick launch only works sometimes. It also takes for ever to start up, much slower than XP I've got service pack 1, which should make it better?
Name: kx5m2g Date: June 25, 2008 at 10:21:43 Pacific
Reply:
Are you saying you didn't have these problems before SP1, or have you always used SP1 ? I doubt that SP1 is the cause.
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Response Number 2
Name: richjt Date: June 25, 2008 at 22:25:43 Pacific
Reply:
As it starts up yo get on the user screen take about 40 or 50 seconds. Then sometimes, more often than not you have to wait minutes to be able to open programs, browsers normally. Is there a way of setting tje start menu to open all stored opened programs?
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