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Originally Posted by blizzardboy
I originally when in to msconfig and disabled everything in the startup section. As far as task manager not sure really what is what in there. What it reads is that CPU Usage is between 0 & 2%. You need to understand I am only running 2 programs on this laptop. Hoster and Ots (music). I have uninstalled any antivirus software and fire wall software. The only other software on this computer was installed by Dell. I can't see what else could be hogging up resources.
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When you say CPU usage shows no more than 2% is this while Hoster is importing or when you are not running any programs?
One item I haven't seen mentioned so far is Indexing. XP tries to create an index of all the files on every drive attached to the system. It will try to update that index every time the drive is attached. There is an option to turn this off in the properties for the drive.
You say software installed by Dell. What software are you referring to? Additional programs included with the laptop, such as Roxio? Or Dell's programs for keeping track of what your computer is doing (supposedly diagnostics) that can also eat up time?