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Old August 2nd, 2002, 01:17 AM     #11 (permalink)
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A HDD defrag will help speed things up.
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Old August 2nd, 2002, 01:19 AM     #12 (permalink)
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take off norton speed disk and docotor! they just slow things down even more. what do you have running in the background?
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in safe mode, it's fast. It takes it a pretty short time to boot. I defragged the drive with no improvement. No P2P proggies. I have win 98se running on my PC with about the same apps as her system. The CPU is the same and so is the RAM. I will have to check out the DMA settings though.
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