On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:27:40 -0400, wrote:

Do yourself a BIG favor - and DUMP the XP64 in favor of 7-32.

7 makes a lot better use of resources than XP - and 10 does even
better - boot times are quicker, for starters.

Windows 10 ("magically") boots faster because newer machines use UEFI
vs BIOS. _Unified Extensible Firmware Interface_ You can turn it off
and see if 10 boots the same?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface