Help, Please... Why is Win XP So SLOW ? ?

[Mark]

Help, Please...

Why is this machine So Slow?

My OLD PC was 350 Mhz, Win98SE, 32 Mb RAM, 20 Gb HD.
My NEW PC is Celeron 1.7 Ghz, Win XP Home, 480 Mb RAM, 40 Gb HD.

The New PC (from a PC Club storefront) is infinately slower !

Both PCs were/are on a 56K modem.
It now takes Windows Explorer 40 seconds to delete a small file.
It takes 1 minute 20 seconds to load the Ebay.com home page.

I installed the free ZoneAlarm Firewall only on the New PC.
I go to WindowsUpdate.Microsoft.com every few weeks and I do whatever
they recommend.
I click Start, Turn Off Computer, and Restart every day.
It's always powered up, and I Defrag the HD every few weeks.

During the three months that I've owned this thing,
now, in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer,
Application has 76 events; about 20 are Errors,
Security has 1,945 events; about 90 are Failure Audit,
System has 3,127 events; about 110 are Warning, and about 970 are
Error.

What Is Up With This Thing ? ? ?

PLEASE Help ! ! !

Thanks very much for any advice you can offer.

Mark S.

 

[Peter]

Hi,

First thing, make sure your new PC is properly
configurated. Update the chipset and BIOS for the mobo
and all the latest XP compatible drivers for the devices;
especially for the sound card and vedio card. Check the
modem drivers if it is too slow for the transfer rate and
also check the transfer rate setting.

Run antispyware software to ensure there is no spywares
in the PC, Ad-aware 6.0 from lavasoftusa.com is a good
chice.
Run disk cleanup regularly to clear the internet cacahe
and other unnecessary files.

Hope it helps.

Peter

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Mark;
Follow this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Slowcom.htm

 

[Thierry]

Maybe the WinXP CD itself is defective. That's what my MCSE has proven
to me by loading a "clean" XP Pro instead of the sluggish HP Pavilion
Home version. There still are problems but at least I know they will be
taken care of!

 

[noone]

it's a new PC, right? complain to the place you bought it - it doesn't
sound like they did something right. if they don't satisfy you, return it
for a full refund. buy elsewhere...