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poor performance
Name: Will Date: February 16, 2002 at 12:16:41 Pacific
Comment:
I have an HP with 1.5 Ghz pentium 4 processor and Windows XP. The computer is running slower than the old 200 mhz pentium I had before. The menus are slow and the computer has trouble running more than three simple programs at once. How can I utilize the processor's power?
Name: Scouseknight Date: February 16, 2002 at 12:50:35 Pacific
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Has this just started happening or has this been happening from day one?
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Response Number 2
Name: Will Date: February 16, 2002 at 14:50:32 Pacific
Reply:
It seemed to have started a few weeks after I got it after my father installed an old Corel Draw program, Coral 4 to be specific. I deleted the program completely off the computer, but I still think it is possible that it messed something up.
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Response Number 3
Name: peter hill Date: February 18, 2002 at 15:49:17 Pacific
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Will, have you tried the system restore utility and have you enough ram to run xp 128mb plus is recomended
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Response Number 4
Name: Bryan Purser Date: February 19, 2002 at 12:18:30 Pacific
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A friend of mine had a similar problem even after adding 256mb of mem. He then turned off Norton antivirus while running this program and it runs fine. Worth a try.
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