On Wednesday 16 July 2008 02:03:26 MHR wrote: > I know this isn't the right forum for this (do I ever!), but you-all know > so much about everything I thought I'd ask. > > About two months ago I resurrected my daughter's Compaq laptop (cracked > screen - replaced it) and ran an update on it. It's running Windows XP, > SP1 (I think), but since the update it has run about 1/3 as fast as it used > to. > > Does anyone know if there was a WXP update that killed performance on > laptops? None of my other XP installs, SP1 or SP2, suffers from this. > > (Actually, I should say "their other" 'cuz I don't use Windows unless I > can't avoid it, and then I try to do it on my WXP VM where it's still > relatively safe.) > Applying SP3 to my daughter's laptop has killed performance to the point of being almost unusable. Restore Points seem to be lost, so I can't go back to before it. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080716/a586e414/attachment-0005.sig>