XP Professional is just as bad as VISTA!!!!

cabernet

cabernet

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I just recently changed my OS from vista to XP professional with all the updates and everything and now everything on my computer is messed up!!!, my games run SLOWER, its ridiculously unstable as in if I spend less than 3 seconds in between clicks it just freezes up, and now its taking ALOT more processing power than when I had vista. when I used vista my processor when to 33% tops now it touches 100%!!!! I use a core 2 duo E6600!!! whats going on???
 
A bad install of XP Pro for some reason there. The Pro version still surpasses Vista by a long shot since it is still a far less clutter with new features version of Windows. The main difference between the Pro and Home editions is simply the increased network support options and seeing a few dos files at the root of C for logging onto older Fat16/32bit networks.

Something most likely went on bad there tieing up cpu time. Look over the startup group in the msconfig utility to see what you can uncheck there to see if you can spot the problem. Simply type msconfig at the Run prompt command prompt and press the enter/return key to see that window come up. The last tab on the right is the startup. You may have to remove and then reinstall something fresh to see this corrected.
 
Aside from being a rather rude response, how do you know he/she hasn't purchased it legally? Do you know this person in real life or something?

As for the opening thread questions / statements. That's rather odd for Windows XP Pro to do. Definitely, like PC Eye said, seems to be a bad install. My computer (spec in signature) idles on 6% with Windows XP Pro and rarely spikes over 12% usage. What exactly is eating up your CPU like that? As in what process?

Rove.
 
I'm pretty sure its not pirated, I went to a computer store and got it changed, its not an official chain computer store like geek squad or somthing but I'm not sure if it was pirated or not. I only had to pay 70 bucks to transfer it.
 
I also had the same processes running when I was using vista, AIM firefox, internet explorer... just things like those.
 
AIM? I've heard some complaints on that over a period of time. It strongly sounds like a need to use the msconfig there and start disabling a few things. Besides seeing something install sideways depending on anything you added after bringing the pc to a shop you have to look at the items that are loading along with Windows. A problem of tying up resources has been heard as far as AIM and sometimes other messenging apps.
 
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