Right click 'My Computer', then 'Properties", then 'Advanced Tab', then 'Settings' button on the "Performance' area..
Click 'Adjust for Best Performance', and it will take all the sliding menus, colored task bar, and other fluff out and make the desktop and boxes and popups look just like Win2K was.. -- JRS [email protected] Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ----- Original Message ---- > From: DSinc <[email protected]> > To: Hardware Group <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:50:35 PM > Subject: [H] General XP question... > > I have been using XP-pro for some time. Probably, for way too long, I lived > happily w/Windows 2000 pro. OK. I have upgraded now to XP. > I accept that most on this List now lives with Vista; and, most of the early > adopters have moved on to Windows 7 (?Vista-Lite?). Such is the way of this > List. > > In the past, I was able to keep W2K somewhat in check regarding "fluff." > > XP seems to have found a plethora of various ways to create "fluff" I would > like > to learn how to control! > > Is/Are there a link(s) I can go read to learn what XP-related "fluff" there > is? > And, which of it I can safely excise? > > I have now noticed that the longer XP runs, the slower it gets! This tells me > that XP creates a lot of "fluff" that might be really necessary. OK. Ideas as > to > why? > > No. I do not like doing complete rebuilds. Even though this task I know all > too > well; now! > > No, I am not yet comfortable with doing a "re-image" of XP either. Both of > these > suggestions seem to defeat my seek somehow. It seems to me that I should be > able > to throttle XP from its' propensities. > > If these activities are my only choices, then, I suppose XP now has a very > small > life-span at my crib.......... :) > > Odd too; I have 5 clients; and, no 2 of them are similar enough for me to > pick > one to "test" with to develop some "plan" for the others. > > Perhaps I ask for too much. Seems I always do.............. :) > Thank you for your suggestions. > Best, > Duncan
