SharkD wrote:
> Maybe my PC is too weak (2.4GHz single core Celeron with 3GB RAM), but 
> I'm starting to really regret switching from XP.

I find that usually windows seems sluggish when there is either heavy disk 
activity or something running at a normal priority and taking up a bunch of 
CPU time that you don't notice. (Moreso the former.)

If you just installed Win7 within a day or two, you might be feeling the 
pain of it trying to index the entire hard drive for searching, or some such.

When you open the resource manager, do you see something running that takes 
up a lot of time?

I had some driver problems with Vista (the hard drive virtual raid bit 
interfering with the sound card or something weird) that had a system task 
repeatedly crashing and then starting up at full bore over and over. If you 
have a pre-install, it might be conflicting drivers or something.

In any case, open up the resource manager (which you can get to from the 
task manager in Vista) and see what's making it slow - disk or CPU or memory 
swapping or what.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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