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I just switched from 2000 to XP 
and I''ve been having a lot of problems.
First of all, the bootup time is very fast. It''s loaded up in seconds. One small problem though, I can''t run anything (except explorer / internet explorer windows) for about 5 minutes! My virus scanner (Norton AV) sits there in the taskbar from startup with a red X over it (showing it is disabled) for about 5 minutes, after which MSN Messenger loads and the X goes away.
It isn''t caused by either of these programs or any others. I went through my registry, start menu, and win.ini and stopped anything from starting up with windows. Also, it was doing this before I installed NAV.
Another (small but pretty annoying) problem is the start menu. I have it in the normal XP mode. When I click on the Start button, it comes up no problem and I can run anything off the first menu. But when I move the mouse over "All Programs", It takes sometimes up to 30 seconds for the menu to come up.
Biggest problem of all: The framerates of all of my games, ones I have written, and others, have dropped significantly. Very significantly. By over 100 FPS in one case (a little demo I wrote, not very hard on the computer at all).
My hardware isn''t the problem. p3 933 mHz, 448MB RAM, Creative Blaster 32MB GeForce 2. It all ran fine under Win2k. I don''t think it''s a driver problem either. I updated all my drivers, no dice. Also, I''m not running any adware or anything.
Is anyone else having any problems like this? Can anyone help me??? If not, can I go back to 2000 without formatting again ?
One other weird thing. When the mouse cursor changes, I see a brief flash of random pixels where the cursor is. It''s hard to describe... and I cant get a screenshot of it. I''m using the default cursors.
and I''ve been having a lot of problems.
First of all, the bootup time is very fast. It''s loaded up in seconds. One small problem though, I can''t run anything (except explorer / internet explorer windows) for about 5 minutes! My virus scanner (Norton AV) sits there in the taskbar from startup with a red X over it (showing it is disabled) for about 5 minutes, after which MSN Messenger loads and the X goes away.
It isn''t caused by either of these programs or any others. I went through my registry, start menu, and win.ini and stopped anything from starting up with windows. Also, it was doing this before I installed NAV.
Another (small but pretty annoying) problem is the start menu. I have it in the normal XP mode. When I click on the Start button, it comes up no problem and I can run anything off the first menu. But when I move the mouse over "All Programs", It takes sometimes up to 30 seconds for the menu to come up.
Biggest problem of all: The framerates of all of my games, ones I have written, and others, have dropped significantly. Very significantly. By over 100 FPS in one case (a little demo I wrote, not very hard on the computer at all).
My hardware isn''t the problem. p3 933 mHz, 448MB RAM, Creative Blaster 32MB GeForce 2. It all ran fine under Win2k. I don''t think it''s a driver problem either. I updated all my drivers, no dice. Also, I''m not running any adware or anything.
Is anyone else having any problems like this? Can anyone help me??? If not, can I go back to 2000 without formatting again ?
One other weird thing. When the mouse cursor changes, I see a brief flash of random pixels where the cursor is. It''s hard to describe... and I cant get a screenshot of it. I''m using the default cursors.
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