Mcky

I bought this low end PC circa Jan 2007. Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHZ OCed 3.0GHZ Asus P5B-E Plus 1GB DDR667 Twin-X XFX XXX Geforce 7600GT DDDR3 256MB Sound Blaster X-FI XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional 500 GB Seagate SATAII HDD with Perpendicular recording DVDRW NEC 16X Coolermaster 600W Extreme PSU Windows Vista Home Premium Performance was slow with/ withaout Aero!! Downloaded latest drivers from nvidia, asus and creative. But the performance was still slow. The cursor was lagging and opening applications took at least 30 seconds. Bootup took 10 minutes. I think I wasted my money on such a crappy system. I got 0.2 for the Windows Experience Index and weakest link.. is my CPU. What teh heck?? I should have bought a Pentium D. Much higher clock speed. someone help? Do i have to reinstall vista? That would take at least 5 hours

My system: P4 2.4GHZ 533MHZ FSB 512MB DDR333 RAM 120GB 7200RPM Maxtor HDD ALBTARON GF4 TI4200 128MB AGP8X SB AUDIGY 2 ADSL 512KBITS CONNECTION 17INCH MONITOR 52X32X52 CDRW Windows XP Professional SP2 I have been using Windows98SE for years and it is very fast in terms of overall OS performance. Only thing it crashes a lot. Now,last month,i removed 98,fresh install XP on my C: drive(partitioned as C: and D:,both converted to NTFS). Now,after installing XP,i notice it is much slower than 98 in terms of application performance and booting time. On 98,it takes 14 sec to boot while on XP,22 seconds!!! When I open small (10KB applications),the HDD churns away and loads the application-5 seconds later. I don't have many programs at startup(only ZoneAlarm and Avast!). Tweaked it using X-SETUP,GameXP,SpeedXP,Bootvis,crapcleaner,etc,etc. No viruses detected using Avast and no adware detected using Ad-aware. Despite all this,no performance increase in Windows XP AT ALL. I believe my system met the system requirements for XP though it might be not the top of the line hardware. Should i format my disks back to FAT32 and go back to Windows98SE?? Help?

I tried my best and this is the result: http://mcky_boyz.tripod.com/Clipboard01.jpg Any ways to make application windows to have xp's luna interface?? PS:I heard about hacking a file called COMCTRL32.DLL... is that true?