Right ok, not my PC for a change, but that of my Dad's. Quite honestly he's drivng me nuts with this problem and I'm about to tell him where to shove his PC because I really don't care either, but no poor old me, on my day off work tomorrow I have to sit there and try and sort it out.
Basically he's moaning that icons are building up on the screen, when windows boots up it like builds them up, when in his words "They should be displayed instantly" I will point out he has a short cut to just about everything on his desktop, and a very large desktop wallpaper of something from his camera, which I don't think has been compressed down which in my mind is causing the problem with the slow loading times. But no, aparantly the older and wiser head disagrees.
He's got a half decent machine, Athlon 64 3200, gig of ram, Radeon X 800 GT (PcI Express) and he says that ever since that card has gone in (he took out a Radeon X550) he reckons that the X550 is a much better card than the X800 (go figure) What annoys me is the fact that when I upgraded my machine he upgraded his, as if he didn't want to be out done. He doesn't play games that require a fast card, only ever seen him play Flight Sim 2000.
My PC, exactly the same spec, apart from the motherboard is near enough instantanious. To be honest I've never really taken much notice of how fast Windows loads icons, either on the desktop or in Control Panel (another area which he says that they take a while to build up)
I also pointed out that he really should have done a clean install of XP when he dropped the new card in. his install of Windows is 4 months or so old.
I had him run defrag, aparantly that made no difference, and neither did disabling undeed programs from starting up (yahoo messenger, MSN messenger among others)
I personally can't see the problem, yeah sure if it was taking 5 minutes to load things up then sure I'd be more keen to help. Like I said I really couldn't care less about this problem But of course I have to help because I just want him to stop moaning.
Please guys, help before he makes me insane !!
Basically he's moaning that icons are building up on the screen, when windows boots up it like builds them up, when in his words "They should be displayed instantly" I will point out he has a short cut to just about everything on his desktop, and a very large desktop wallpaper of something from his camera, which I don't think has been compressed down which in my mind is causing the problem with the slow loading times. But no, aparantly the older and wiser head disagrees.
He's got a half decent machine, Athlon 64 3200, gig of ram, Radeon X 800 GT (PcI Express) and he says that ever since that card has gone in (he took out a Radeon X550) he reckons that the X550 is a much better card than the X800 (go figure) What annoys me is the fact that when I upgraded my machine he upgraded his, as if he didn't want to be out done. He doesn't play games that require a fast card, only ever seen him play Flight Sim 2000.
My PC, exactly the same spec, apart from the motherboard is near enough instantanious. To be honest I've never really taken much notice of how fast Windows loads icons, either on the desktop or in Control Panel (another area which he says that they take a while to build up)
I also pointed out that he really should have done a clean install of XP when he dropped the new card in. his install of Windows is 4 months or so old.
I had him run defrag, aparantly that made no difference, and neither did disabling undeed programs from starting up (yahoo messenger, MSN messenger among others)
I personally can't see the problem, yeah sure if it was taking 5 minutes to load things up then sure I'd be more keen to help. Like I said I really couldn't care less about this problem But of course I have to help because I just want him to stop moaning.
Please guys, help before he makes me insane !!
