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After trying all the standard tricks, my XP installation is still very slow. What more can I do?
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My work computer still has XP on it, though I will be upgrading to Win7 in a few short months so I've got to make do in the meantime. I just started working at this job, so the computer was a hand-me-down, which wasn't maintained too well on the software side. At this point, a clean format is not a…
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Fix for: After trying all the standard tricks, my XP installation is still very slow. What more can I do?
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Once it is to the desktop is it still super slow to do anything? One thing to check that will slow down everything on a PC if it has a Pata (IDE) hard drive. Open device manager, expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, then right click on the primary IDE …
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