Roy wood a �crit:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arnould Nazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
It this bloody XP that is is responsible of this behavior.
I would say that it is more likely a bad installation, some application running full tilt in the background using all the resources or hardware problems. I have built many XP based systems and use one at work and one on the laptop. Neither of these have the problems you describe. The system at work is not very well installed because we change the hardware all the time and it is overloaded with extra drivers which are no longer used and software that is no longer used. I have no time to clean it out but the system itself chugs along quite fast and quite happily. I would look to the way the modem is routed and hit CTRL/ALT/DEL and check the system processes and CPU usage to see where the problems are.
IMHO you used 9 lines of text to say the same as me in 1 line. Why the hell should I, user x, bother with installation of something like XP? When you use your car, your TV set or your washing machine, do you fine tune the settings every other day?
As for the comments about Linux, I stop this here.
Arnould
