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[lovetogarden]

I'm also finding that my system is becoming drained. I had to reconfigure choosing selective startup and desellecting :winstart.bat file and load startup group. Seems in my case that there was so much memory being used in startup programs it was draining the system.. So far so good, though I no longer have the always open netscape icon on my task bar.

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[profman]

[bmac50]

I seem to be missing something here because I can't seem to MAKE any type of system drainage problem. I really have to wonder if this problem isn't caused by IE for most users. I used 7.02 and 7.1 with the same results, never any lower that 64% but usually 72% and this is with running two firewalls (ZA&Kerio), eTrust antivirus, MailWasher and myNetWatchmen.

I have removed IE with 98lite and yes there was some growing pains but it was so long ago I really don't remember what they were.
http://www.litepc.com/download.html
What I do remember is my resources jumped and it was like I had either bought a new computer or added a ton of memory

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[jsjag]

Hm? I am new to NS 7.1 and haven't had any problems. I recently fled AOL 9.0 due to terrible problems and I wanted to be able to use POP 3 with my COntact Manager program. I have my virtual memory set to drive D: using 3000 / 3000. I also use Cacheman.

With NS running I also have my Contact Manager running (large database); WordPerfect 9.0; a fax/voice mail program; a virus program and I have no problems. I run Win 98 S1, 466 MHZ, 256 RAM, 8 gig c drive and 80 gig d drive.

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[edmartin]

I've been using Netscape V7.1 since the Disk was first distributed and
have had nothing but outstanding results with it. I find it far faster in almost every respect that Internet Explorer. The only time I use IE is
to download and install patches. I'm using the Me Operating System,
keep it up to date change wise, and at the end of the day I run all the diagnostics including the Norton Register checker to fix Registry
errors, if any. After this is done I clean up the caches, dump the garbage and get rid of the Windows/TEMP files.
At the Club I attend, I've heard the same problems stories about W95, Wp98 and XP. Most of the problems, I believe. can be attributed
improper installation, poor housekeeping and overload. One fellow at the Club has about 60G of Programs on his hard drive with icons all over the place and so many shortcuts on the desktop, it was like running a maize to find the shortcut you were looking for. On top of that he had all the Norton Programs start and run at boot. In all about 40 programs starting at startup. At the end of the Boot cycle
practically all his resourses were used up. Someone cheched his hard disk using Speed Disk and found that it was only 30% unfragnented.
I'm not implying that people do not keep their system cleaned up. I'm offering a few suggestions which may make you syatem operate better by giving it a chance to perform.

Respectfully,
edmartin

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[jsjag]

I aggree that most people never clean up the OEM mess that is shipped with their computers. For some reason the OEM thinks everythig including the kitchen sink must load at boot.

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[Wellander]

[Antony]

[Wellander]

[Antony]

[Mandrake]

So why purchase a computer with an OS if you just plan on removing it? If you work in the IT field, surely you could just create your own computers and purchase the OS seperately, saving quite a bit of money. If you do insist on purchasing from vendors such as Dell, one can easily request a different OS on the computer, rather than the default XP Home. It's easy, and doesn't cost that much more, to get Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional rather than XP Home.

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[Wellander]

Hi,
So I can purchace it at a store rather them catalog or online or the phone.
What I do is keep the driver disks (for driver installation) and them use my cd shreadder to shread the OEM os cd's.
I know that companies will ship it with windows 2000 professional.
But this was stupid.
I do mostly build my own computers for home.

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[Antony]

With OEM version of Windows, it is required to ship with a copy of Windows in CD or other media. Hence you are allowed to reformat or change any settings if you wish.

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[Fulvio]

My son's laptop came with WinXP, but no CD.

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[Mandrake]

Is it by chance an HP laptop? They generally have a seperate partition on the hard disk that contains the install files incase you need to reinstall Windows, which you do via some kind of 'Recovery Disk' . . .

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