On 4/3/2014 4:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:11:23 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/3/2014 12:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?



I just spent the morning in an office where I am doing some consulting
work. I needed to get on their network server to bring up some
documents and drawings. They gave me use of an old Dell computer
running XP Professional. Most of the remainder of the company,
especially the engineering group are using Win7 computers. They use
them for running "Solid Works" , a fairly extensive, 3D Cad program.

I gave up after about an hour with the old Dell. I don't know what the
problem was but everything I did was painfully slow. It could be the
network, the server or whatever .... or it could be the computer. I
showed one of the mechanical engineers how it was running and he agreed
that they didn't have that type of "slowness" on the the newer, Win7
systems.

Not pointing a finger at XP necessarily because it could be any one or
more of a number of things. Next time I go up there I am going to
bring my own Win7 laptop and see how it works on their network.


Sounds more like it was just bogged down with software and not enough
memory. The old 3 finger salute and hit the performance tab will give
you a hint. If it is paging it's ass off, you are short of RAM.
A lot of time you can just go kill some of the processes you are not
using to get your speed back up. A lot of people load a bunch of crap
they seldom use and leave it resident. Sometimes it just loads itself.
Things like Quicktime and Real Player load whether you want them or
not. I go into msconfig and blow away a lot of autorun stuff every so
often.
If you know where to look you can do it with regedtit too.


Whatever it is, it was a pain in the ass. I am used to much faster
performance on the Win7 and Vista laptops I use. They aren't
particularly over endowed with RAM or CPU processing speed and have far
more programs installed in them than the Dell XP machine I was using
this morning yet run *much* faster.

I am paid to do some technical marketing for their product line, not
spend hours dissecting and fixing a bloated computer, assuming that's
the problem.