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Name: jevelyn3 Date: August 11, 2005 at 21:20:01 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: Pentium4 1.99 ghz
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Basically my laptop my friends laptop was playing the ass so he formated and put back on xp and now his system is running EXTREMELY slow. It prolly takes about 45 minutes/1 hour to start up(no exaggeration). When u turn it on the little gray bar takes forever to get to the top and then the screen turns black for a couple mins and u are at the microsoft windows xp screen and then that loads forever . when its finish loading the welcome screen takes for ever. Then when he chooses his account it takes for ever to load. And when u actually try to use applications they take FOREVER to load. Plzzzzzzzz help A.S.A.P
Name: XpUser4Real Date: August 11, 2005 at 22:52:24 Pacific
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How much ram do you have? Sounds like a ram problem to me
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Response Number 2
Name: jevelyn3 Date: August 12, 2005 at 18:24:13 Pacific
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i have 512mb of ram. how can it b a ram problem lol.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser4Real Date: August 13, 2005 at 09:56:07 Pacific
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Low ram causes everything to run extremely slow...lol
Possibly a reformat and re-install is in order, seeing that he had just installed you shouldn't lose too much. Was the last install good or were there alot of errors? You said he put back on XP, did he install overtop of another OS? Like was 98se or ME installed before he reformatted?
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Response Number 4
Name: jevelyn3 Date: August 14, 2005 at 11:22:34 Pacific
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no no, the only operating system b4 this one was windows xp professional. i got some errors with the copy of his windows xp professional so i used my windows xp home edition and formatted it. Itw as the longest format and installation i have ever seen.
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser4Real Date: August 14, 2005 at 13:03:27 Pacific
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I'm stumped on that too....it would be different if I could see the behavior of the laptop. If you did a clean install (fdisk and reformat) then I can't see a reason why the OS is so slow....sorry
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