On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 4:30:25 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:13:39 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

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On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 10:23:52 -0400, Ralph Mowery
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Well , if it's gotta be a clean install I might as well start
off with a clean hdd ... and I have a new 320 WD on hand for it .
The Plan is to bump this mobo ( Asus M2A-VM) to the max 8 Gb RAM
with 4 x 2 Gb sticks , switch to a Phenom X4 2.3 Ghz processor and
update the BIOS . I just built one on an Asrock N68C-GS4 FX with a
1.8 Phenom/4Gb/32 bit and an hdd that already had XP Pro loaded and
it seems significantly faster than this 2.6 dual core Athlon . That
one is going to my shop to replace the one that died recently . All
but that last one are boxes that are older than 10 years , with no
significant upgrades since they were built . It's not that this one
won't do the job , it just isn't fast enough any more with the more
graphic/data intense web sites . It's just the same as your "stuff"
expanding to fill all available space , as capability increases
they will expand to use it . Oh , and I've got a couple of 1T
drives for storage , seemed like I needed the space for my "stuff"
...

If you are going to go to all that, you may be better off going to
ebay and buying a whole computer. Get one with a faster processor
and more memory and win 10 already on it.
I have not checked lately, but about a year ago I wanted to get the
win 10 for free, so bought a computer with win 7 pro on it and
upgraded to win 10. Now the free upgrade is out of date, you should
be able to fine a computer with win 10 already on it. If you want
to stay with XP you can probably find a fast xp computer. Eithe way
will probably be less than $ 150.



That was my first thought ..
.. buy a $ 99. desktop Canadian dollars !
with Win 10 Pro 64 bit - here's just one example ..

http://www.eco-techrecycling.com/pcsales.php

John T.

What y'all are not understanding is that I don't want W10 , I wish to stay
with XP Pro . I MIGHT consider going to 64 bit W7 Pro , but nothing newer .
I have on hand a 64 bit Vista copy , but Vista was such a dog ... and a
copy of XP Pro 64 bit is on it's way , should arrive today .

Ok on not wanting to go with win 10. From some of your posting you say
that the main problem is with the graphics of the internet. The web
sites and brousing programs are not supporting win xp to ammount to
anything any more. That may be part of the problem.

You may have to go to win 10 to get programs that will work at speed.
One reason I put a computer on win 10 is because Turbo Tax said they
would not support win xp after last year.

You did not mention what speed your internet connection was at. Go to a
speed test web site and see what kind of download speed you are getting.
It many be that you are not getting the data fast enough.


Even FireFox doesn't support XP any more - and the Fox that runs on XP
can't handle a lot of the new web content. GO 7!!!! Internet explorer
11, or the latest Firefox. Forget about Chrome.

Try it - you'll LOVE it. XP is TOTALLY yesterday's news on SO many
counts.

So is Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft already dropped support for any
previous versions over a year ago. Switching to IE at this point as
part of his upgrade strategy is just going from a dead horse to a
dying horse. Firefox on XP is in the same boat, they are ending support
too. His problem isn't a browser, it's that XP is obsolete and over
and to be investing in upgrading an XP system doesn't make sense to me
at this point.