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From: Barry Ward
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:21

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A friend of mine has recently bought his first computer -- a Celeron 667 on
a Micro ATX board with integrated video and sound and only 64 meg RAM. It
appears to have an ATA66 Hdd (UDMA Mode 4)  and runs Windows ME.

It is soooo slow!!!! Its slower (especially loading) than my old P233 with
64 meg RAM running Windows 95

I figure the main problem is that 64 meg RAM (- 8 meg for the onboard
video ) plus running Windows ME is the killer!!  I am going to get him
another 128 Meg RAM -- but cannot do anything about the sound, video or Hdd
(I think).

Any other suggestions to speed this thing up -- please don't tell me to
ditch ME -- that is also out of the question.

Thanks

Barry in Brisbane Australia

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