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Pikaporeon	Apr 6 2004, 01:40 PM Post #1
...Then I Defy You, Stars Group: Private Member Posts: 426 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Canadia Member No.: 70	I recently upgraded to WinXP Pro. It worked fine until i got online with it, when i started getting out of memory errors. I increased my paging file size to max, then set it at system managed after finding the former didnt work. After trying to DL an antivirus demo to no avail (didnt have time/had to return my modem as i share it with my mother) I found my performance in the game NHL 2004 to have gotten incredibly choppy. I suspected I had got a virus from KaZaA, so i deleted KaZaA. I also installed from my Motherboard disk Trend PC-cillan 2000. I needed to update it, but first i scanned (and found no viruses) and reset. Now that its reloaded, my computer hardly moves. Its so slow i cant navigate menues. Any tips? Heres the specs on my PC: Hard Drives: MASTER: 76 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM Running Windows XP Pro VIA GRUB SLAVE: 8 GB Fujitsu 5500 RPM Running RedHat Linux VIA GRUB CPU: AMD Athalon 1700+ (1466 MHZ) MONITOR: 19" Viewsonic VIDEOCARD: Nvidia GeForce 2 64MB RAM: 256 MB SDRAM (IMO probably a contributing factor to my troubles) CD: 52x (no burner or anything) Im thinking Il be taking out my master hard drive, putting it on my bros PC as a slave and burning stuff as backup, then wiping the drive. Any way around this (as I cannot function without my Windows XP segment as Linux does not support my modem) -------------------- A British company is developing small computer chips that can store music in women's breasts. This is considered a major breakthrough since women complain about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

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captbics	Apr 24 2004, 09:09 PM Post #2
nFm [ Level 1 ] Group: Full Member Posts: 217 Joined: 24-April 04 Member No.: 90	I set up the partitions on my PC with Partition Magic, and then used BootMagic to select which partition I boot from. I have Win98SE, WinXP Pro #1, and WinXP Pro #2, plus a data partition. I do a lot of home automation and embedded processor playing around, and I still have to use Win98SE to write directly to the serial ports reliably (uploading programs into a single board computer). captbics This post has been edited by captbics: Apr 24 2004, 09:10 PM -------------------- O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won... (Dead Poet's Society) (Walt Whitman)

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Pikaporeon WinXP Pro Performance Apr 6 2004, 01:40 PM

Boss429 what is the connection? is this a fresh install o... Apr 6 2004, 03:08 PM

Pikaporeon Its an upgrade of my far-too-buggy WinME And its... Apr 6 2004, 08:10 PM

Timelapse Did you check your task list? Open up task manage... Apr 6 2004, 09:17 PM

Songi upgrade on WinME? i would recommand doing a fresh ... Apr 6 2004, 09:39 PM

Boss429 maybe even partion the 80gig HD it to too parts, w... Apr 6 2004, 10:22 PM

Pikaporeon Timelapse, ive played with my Task List extensivly... Apr 6 2004, 10:47 PM

Boss429 seems like you may either have to gowith a third ... Apr 7 2004, 01:10 AM

DutchKid Yeah that's possible Pikaporeon. You can easil... Apr 7 2004, 10:17 AM

PimpScourge yep, don't even think on repartitioning withou... Apr 7 2004, 05:04 PM

Pikaporeon Luckily my WinXP CD came with PMagic ^^ Ive toyed... Apr 8 2004, 02:44 AM

Bearsland You are assuming there is no rule because it... Apr 8 2004, 03:14 AM

Pikaporeon thanks, il drop it. (unless the staff says its wit... Apr 8 2004, 03:22 AM

captbics I set up the partitions on my PC with Partition Ma... Apr 24 2004, 09:09 PM

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