Abe Froman

Hello, A relative of mine wanted to install a fresh copy of WindowsXP Pro on their AMD Duron 700-800, 256Ram computer. When they brang me the computer, it was obvious why they wanted to a fresh install because the computer was extremely slow and everything was just a mess. When I say slow, slow as in when clicking to open something, it would take long opening or even closing a program in a choppy effect. It was just terrible. We figured a fresh install would fix the computer. From what I understand, a AMD Duron 700-800MHz computer with 256RAM is more then enough to run XP. I went along with the installation. The installation was the longest installation I ever done on a computer. It took forever, about a full day. Finally when the installation was over, the slowness is still there, but just a tiny bit better then before. Now basically its still slow, but with no choppiness, just slow. Just getting into windows now and even before takes forever. I thought a clean install would of fixed the problem, it doesn't look like it. Something is wrong somewhere and I can't figure it out. My sisters computer runs XP on a 700Mhz 128ram with no problems. So with this computer, I thought there wouldnt be any problems at all. I would greatly appreciate some help. Thanks! Note: The installation was done using a Windows XP Pro CD created by nliteos, I believe. I believe the creator of the CD intregrated/streamed alot of drivers into the CD because after I installed windows and logged in, I went into the device manager and everything there was all right. All drivers were already installed, etc. I think perhaps he intregrated more then enough drivers etc for many PCs. Thought I'd add this if this might be a problem. Thanks.

I was wondering, say if you intregrated alot of drivers. When its time to install windows, are all the unneeded drivers not loaded right? But only wants needed for the computer?

Thank you Rick for the info, links and nice welcome. I greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for the fast response. Speaking of nliteos, I was checking it out earlier. I had a question about the part when you get to the section to add drivers. Do you HAVE to add drivers at that section or is it just an option if you want to? Because I was going to make a windowsxp CD for another computer and when I got to that part in nliteos, I was not sure what drivers to integrate, specially because the CD will be for another computer. I figured integrating any drivers on my computer that I'm on now would be useless for the other computer.

Hello, new here. First want to say thanks to JCarle for this. I've downloaded WUD and received the updates. My question is, how exactly do I install these updates? Do I just click/run each update(hotfix) one by one? Sorry about this. I searched the forums. I just wanted to be sure. Thanks!