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18-Oct-2003, 08:14 AM #1
Window XP Home slow 2 respond
When I double click on programs they take for ever to open. I sometimes think I missing double clicking so I hit again, then only 2 be flooded with the program opening up twice. Has anyone got any suggestions what is happening and how I fix this. This system appears to be idle and them bang kicks into life???
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18-Oct-2003, 09:43 AM #2
2 questions, 1st what are your system specs. cpu, ram, ect.

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18-Oct-2003, 09:52 AM #3
you can also go here and download spybot search and destroy. It seems as though you have a lot of background programs running while your trying to open others.
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19-Oct-2003, 07:39 PM #4
Sounds like you might need more RAM but yeah it would help if I knew the specs to narrow down the problem

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