Gary S. Terhune said:
It's a new Asus P5B Deluxe mobo, Core2Duo, 2.66 GHz (x 2, of course, since
I'm running 32-bit XP.) 2GB RAM. Faster than most machines out there,
especially XP machines. Nothing I've seen or heard, none of my long
experience, suggests the issue is related to hardware speed.
Gary
I have XP SP2 with P4 3.2, Asus P5LD2, 160GB HD(27 used), 1024mb memory.
I have 58 items in add/remove plus all the usual MS updates.
The difference in populating with/without the tick is a fraction of a
second - would have to use a stopwatch to see the difference.
This is at the moment - and I say that because there are times, in
particular
when I have done manual updates and checked to see if each update is in
add/remove after booting, I have sat waiting for a good half minute or more
for it to populate.
When I did the above times, I was in OE reading posts, I had three items
open in IE6 and then my AV kicked in to do its daily - the 5 sec time was
the same despite trying at least six times.
I have come out of OE and IE and waited for the AV to finish and rebooted -
as soon as desktop settled I went straight to add/remove - this time it took
just a shade under 8 secs?
I have done it five more times and it is a constant 5 secs again?
The only question I have is - do you want to swap systems to solve your prob
with add/remove
Take care
Rgds
Antioch
