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re: Windows running painfully slow!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 8:34 pm
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Posted by Art Robertson (7 messages posted)


Thanks for your response, Paul. I will do this step you suggest and see if the machine runs normally after reboot


On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 12:25 pm, Paul Phiropoulos wrote:
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>Art,this is a common problem with xp, most likely you have programs or spys running
>in the background, you need to check your startup items to see what programs are
>running. then eliminate the ones you dont want to run. go to "run" on the start menu
>then type "msconfig" you will get a tabbed window. go to the tab that says startup,
>and uncheck the programs you dont want to start up with windows. if you get rid of
>somthing you want back just simply repeat the process. without further information
>i can only suggest this as a starting place to clean up you computer.
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re: Windows running painfully slow! (Paul Phiropoulos: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 12:25 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Windows running painfully slow! (Art Robertson: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 10:34 am)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Paul Phiropoulos: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 12:25 pm)
*re: Windows running painfully slow! (Art Robertson: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 8:34 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Rich Kurtz: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 5:43 pm)
*re: Windows running painfully slow! (Art Robertson: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 8:38 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (MrCharlie: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 5:49 pm)
*re: Windows running painfully slow! (Art Robertson: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 8:41 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Steve: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 7:01 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Art Robertson: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 8:27 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Steve: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 8:54 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Art Robertson: Thu, Oct 11, 2007, 1:13 pm)
*re: Windows running painfully slow! (Steve: Thu, Oct 11, 2007, 2:09 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Paul Phiropoulos: Fri, Oct 12, 2007, 12:26 pm)
-re: Windows running painfully slow! (Art Robertson: Fri, Oct 12, 2007, 9:37 pm)
*re: Windows running painfully slow! (Paul Phiropoulos: Tue, Oct 16, 2007, 12:15 pm)
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