Re: OT Beware Windows XP update!

"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:33:14 +0100, Kay Robinson 
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> wrote:
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>>This seems to happen a lot these days. Every update results in slower,
>>and often incomplete, restarts and a whole day of messing to get OE to
>>log on properly. Mind you my computer is old and short on memory, and
>>has a unheard off CPU, which can't help.
>
> That's true.
>
> I've found my laptop seems to be taking longer to boot, and it sometimes

> takes
> ages for what I've typed to appear on the screen. Some programs ran
faster 
> on
> an 8 Mhz 8088 chip than they do on a 1.3 GHz one.
>

Especially when they are written for that speed processor!

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