
Downside Studio
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This is a little off topic, but all the local computer nerds are not really helping me so before trying the damn helpdesk (aaarrgghhh) maybe somebody knows a solution here.
I myself work only on macs so I personally don't have problems regarding computers
It's my girlfriends laptop, a compaq pressarium 700EA with Atlon 900 Mhz and 128 ram. When it came from the store it had XP home edition installed. From scratch this system is very slow in starting programs or displaying windows. If I hit the startmenu ity takes over 5 seconds to display. If I try the search functions it takes over 20 seconds to start. If I try to start explorer it takes over 30 seconds to start. Half of the time I think I didn't hit the button right, so I push it again..nothing happends, so I push it again, and two minutes later I have the same program 3 times on screen.
What could be causing this? Once the programs are up and running they work just fine.
I myself work only on macs so I personally don't have problems regarding computers

It's my girlfriends laptop, a compaq pressarium 700EA with Atlon 900 Mhz and 128 ram. When it came from the store it had XP home edition installed. From scratch this system is very slow in starting programs or displaying windows. If I hit the startmenu ity takes over 5 seconds to display. If I try the search functions it takes over 20 seconds to start. If I try to start explorer it takes over 30 seconds to start. Half of the time I think I didn't hit the button right, so I push it again..nothing happends, so I push it again, and two minutes later I have the same program 3 times on screen.
What could be causing this? Once the programs are up and running they work just fine.