[kranav]

Hello there!

Two days ago I had to reinstall windows xp home edition (yet again). It was probably due to improper shutdown. Anyway, after reinstalling windows I found my laptop has become terribly slower than before. My videos are running at a slower pace which is most of my concern. I installed all the necessary drivers and everything. But according to Driver max 5.5 they are very outdated. Could this be the reason? I also have previous versions of xp loaded in the machine as I couldn't delete them during reinstall. Although I have deleted the previous windows folders in the c drive..also, cpu usage is more than 50 percent most of the time. i have nav 2010 installed could that be the problem? (but it was fine before)
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!

[flavallee]

Did you use an actual XP CD to reinstall XP?

If you did use an actual XP CD, did you boot from it, delete all current partitions, create a single C partition, format it in the NTFS file system, and then reinstall XP?

Here is a pictorial guide and instructions on how it should be reinstalled.

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[kranav]

thanks for the reply.
I did use an actual xp cd which came with the laptop. I had to reinstall xp many times over a couple of years and never repartioned the c drive or format anything.

[flavallee]

If you don't follow the steps and/or the tutorial that I previously provided, you won't start out with a pristine clean hard drive and a fresh install of XP.

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[kranav]

thanks. will do.