Windows 7 not so desirable?

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Thanks for the Replies

Thanks everyone for the details. Yep like many I do keep an eye on the progs instantiating at startup. monitoring with msconfig and winpatrol (a blast from the past but works on XP). Re the comments about processes consuming battery life - In my experence it does make a difference - minimising the number of extraineous startups does help. PS I forgot to mention I'm running Norton 2009 on the offending M/C - ESET NOD on the "Banger" 800mhx, 10 Gb HD XP SP3 ( My only piece of Kit that did run SP3 without grief initially)

A big drain on battery performance is wireless - You can set things up so that it sleeps after a period of inactivity - I know wifi is never totally inactive but every little helps. Modern HD's seem to be very miserly in their power requirements -As does RAM - Finally you can always slow the CPU a bit - Re Rivits comments. PS I think that the BIOS has to support Hibernate as an option - Not sure though.


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