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Low bandwidth only on Windows XP
Hi I own really old PC and I've 10Mbps/1Mbps Plan. Internet is distibuted with router over whole house.
The old PC uses 802.11b (up to 11Mbit/s download) Wifi card and has Windows XP+SP3 installed. ...
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System Alerts are slow to draw
My PC is running pretty quickly and pretty responsively. The only one problem it seems to have is with system alerts (Message boxes, not tool-tips). Often, yet not always, they are slow to draw. The ...
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Windows XP: Slow Shutdown
One of our machines on the network is very slow to shutdown at the end of the day. It is Windows XP. The user also notices a whirring/buzzing sound coming from the PC.
The hard drive is not ...
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File copying much slower than rated Firewire speed
While copying a lot of files to an external hard drive using Firewire I notice that the copy speed is a lot slower than the Firewire data transfer rate. The supposed transfer rate for Firewire 400 is ...
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How to change or add a new item in explorer 'Other Places'?
How to add an item here or change one of them:
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VMWare Player - increase 3D performance on XP guest
Ive set up a Windows XP (SP2) Guest machine.
I want to use it to play some old games. But here is the problem:
3D works baaaaaad. Most of the time I get only one to five fps.
And this in games created ...
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How can I improve the performance of my audio software?
I am running OtsAV on Windows XP. The way it works is by buffering a small amount of data from the hard drive just before it needs to play it. It used to give flawless sound no matter what else was ...
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Too slow PC for web browsing?
There is a very peculiar problem I've seen on my cousin's PC and I am not 100% sure what's causing that.
The problem is, that when browsing every bigger page (with multiple pictures and such) takes ...
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Can Googleupdate.exe cause delays when shutting down in Windows?
I have a computer running Windows XP which hangs in "windows is shutting down" for around two minutes. After running the Event Viewer, I've discovered that during this time, an error is recorded as a ...
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XP freezes every second
I'm experiencing a problem where XP freezes completely for a fraction of a second, every second. The mouse doesn't update, music stops, video stops - and then suddenly resumes.
I can't see anything ...
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Long boot time (~15 minutes)
I recently formatted the drive and re-installed Windows XP. I now get a bar across the lower part of the screen during start up, like when recovering from hibernation, and it takes 15-17 minutes to ...
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Fix slowness of PC
I know there are other topics about that, but they don't quite solve my problem.
So the PC is not my personal, so I don't really know how was it treated, what has been installed/uninstalled and the ...
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