I upgraded to Win XP and now the computer seems to run slower, whats the deal?

[coolred]

It seems like when I have more then 1 program open, usually like 3-4 and try to switch through them, it takes like 5-10 seconds for it to minimize one and load the other. I am running a duron at 866 and have 512MB of DDR memory, so I don't see why this should be happening, any suggestions?

 

[JoeDaddy]

It can be two things.

1.) You are running a duron, try upgrading to a 1.2ghz or higher tbird or a palimino. 512MB ddr should be more than enough for XP.

2.) It was an upgrade, upgrades don't always work right. How about backing up your data and trying a fresh install?

I've got my parents on a tbird 1 ghz w/ 512mb pc133 and WinMe runs slow so who knows. I would say try option #2 first.

Just my $0.02, which isn't worth much these days.

 

[Escalade]

Which OS did you upgrade from?

Win-XP is about 10% slower than Win-2k, and 20% slower than Win-NT4.

 

[rudder]

I would say its not a CPU problem. XP is fine on my 600mhz celeron laptop with 256megs ram. I would go with the fresh install. Back up your data and format!

 

[coolred]

I upgraded from ME, but I have also used 2K and 98, I mean it seems to run fine except for when switching between open programs

 

[NTB]

I noticed this too when I first started using XP; one thing that seemed to help was to cut out a lot of the graphics "goodies" that XP uses by default. May not look as pretty, but it seems to be a lot more responsive. Go to the "systems properties" control panel, click on the "advanced" tab, and then click on the "visual effects" tab in the new window that pops up: choose "adjust for best performance" to clear all the options, or on "customk" and then pick and choose which you want to use.

While you're at it, you may want to check these out as well. All kinds of XP tweaks and other info.

Nate

 

[Passions]

I had very bizarre window refreshing problems too. everything was very slow, i changed my geforce drivers from the default winxp ones to the nvidia detonators on their site, that solved everything. you could try that too. good luck.

 

[Blayze]

no way thats a CPU issue.

Im running XP on my main box and its a Athlon (Slot A - Non TBird) 800MHz with 512 megs of PC133 SDRAM, and I can't tell much difference than when I had 2000 on this machine.

I would check your video drivers. Like said before it could be because you did an upgrade. Upgrades dont always work, if this is the case you will need to do a clean install of XP.