Hi to all !!!. I recently run into this dilemma. My Toshiba laptop performance extremely SLOW. It takes 5-10 minutes to load the Windows (WinXP HOME) Then, when windows up and running, time to open any application is way TOO slow. Tried to make it share on the home network. Can't. Too slow. Crashes. Got "blue screen of death". Takes a lot of time to open Windows explorer. And even more I don't see Toshiba on network. Error message says "path not found"...or something like this. But I see network from the laptop. Any ideas guys what this could be?. And how to transfer files off the laptop? Is there any DOS command or something to connect to a computer over network. All this may seem to you like nothing. But I've spent already a lot of time just to load XP and get Explorer working. Would greatly appreciate any other, faster, different solutions. Thanks a lot to all

You need to fix whatever is erroring out that's making the thing run so slow. Also, check that you just haven't run out of disk space (there needs to be free space just for Windows to run). Try looking through the Event Viewer log files for clues as to what's erroring out. Also, try booting in Safe Mode and see if that works faster (press F8 after the BIOS and before Windows boots). Otherwise there's always DOS boot disks out there that can boot the system and give you basic network access (if you can run around in DOS)...