I must admit that an up-to-date version of XP seems to run much more sluggishly that it used to. About 6 months ago, I decided to update my main machine. I purchased a new case, PSU, mobo, dual core CPU, 3 gig of RAM and a 250 gig hard drive. On plugging it all together with my old DVD ROM drive, it all worked, much to my suprise. I then installed an old version of XP which did not even have the benefit of SP1. It seemed to fly - I had forgotton just how fast it was. Now that copy of XP has been modified to death and been brought completely up to date. It's much more sluggish now - or seems to be - and Office XP also now has to be modified to death to make it run properly which was certainly not the case when XP first came out. But we know that Microshaft's policy is exactly that. Thank heavens for Open Office. My 1999 copy of Corel 9 still runs perfectly.
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