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Old May 18th 06, 07:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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For nine months now I have been using WinXP Home SP2 on a Sony home computer. For about five years
been using WinME on the other.

My XP runs on a 3 Ghz Pentium 4. My ME runs on an 800Mhz Pentium 3. Here is the puzzler - benchmarks
show the P4 running at least 3 times faster than the P3. But in opening any program the time to open
is almost identical. For PSP it is around 13 to 14 seconds for each. Same for Photo Impact (another
graphics program). Once they are open the P4 again outpaces the P3 by a goodly amount.

My question is - is this normal? Or has Sony loaded so much of their stuff on the computer that
this slows it down in opening programs? I have gone into WinCfg and had it load only the basic
stuff, but doesn't seem to speed up the opening of programs any at all.
Thanks,
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Old May 18th 06, 09:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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XO wrote:

For nine months now I have been using WinXP Home SP2 on a Sony home computer. For about five years
been using WinME on the other.

My XP runs on a 3 Ghz Pentium 4. My ME runs on an 800Mhz Pentium 3. Here is the puzzler - benchmarks
show the P4 running at least 3 times faster than the P3. But in opening any program the time to open
is almost identical. For PSP it is around 13 to 14 seconds for each. Same for Photo Impact (another
graphics program). Once they are open the P4 again outpaces the P3 by a goodly amount.

My question is - is this normal? Or has Sony loaded so much of their stuff on the computer that
this slows it down in opening programs? I have gone into WinCfg and had it load only the basic
stuff, but doesn't seem to speed up the opening of programs any at all.
Thanks,


Program launch times are very much related to hard drive performance,
and there is probably not much of a difference in the hard drive
performance (e.g. data throughput) between the two computers.

Hope this clarifies the situation.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
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Old May 18th 06, 10:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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That's why I won't touch an OEM-loaded system. Btw, I find the speeds of my
Windows ME and Windows 2000 Pro systems (dual boot, same computer) virtually
identical. And they don't take very long to open anything except Photoshop
(yawn) and Open Office (zzz).

Walterius


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Old May 18th 06, 10:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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On Thu, 18 May 2006 13:56:24 -0700, Ron Martell wrote:

Program launch times are very much related to hard drive performance,
and there is probably not much of a difference in the hard drive
performance (e.g. data throughput) between the two computers.

Hope this clarifies the situation.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

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Thanks, Ron. That must be it. Started to mention in original post that the DVD's (2 in each
computer) have about the same overall time when copying a DVD without first writing an ISO file to
the hard drive.

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Old May 18th 06, 10:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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On Thu, 18 May 2006 17:25:11 -0400, "Walterius" wrote:

That's why I won't touch an OEM-loaded system. Btw, I find the speeds of my
Windows ME and Windows 2000 Pro systems (dual boot, same computer) virtually
identical. And they don't take very long to open anything except Photoshop
(yawn) and Open Office (zzz).

Walterius

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