On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:49:37 GMT As Androids Dreamed Of Electric Sheep
and then "Bob" <bobinsfo@yahoo.com> wrote :

>My 6 month old HP Pavilion with Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor is very slow in
>opening new applications. When I click on an icon on the desktop, start
>menu, control panel, etc. there is nearly always a 10 second (sometimes
>more) lag before the application opens. This is not new; it has always been
>that way. When I first got it, I complained to HP support, but they
>couldn't do anything, and even went so far on one occasion to tell me that a
>10 second delay was normal. It surely isn't on my laptop (1 GHz or my
>former computer). I don't have a lot of things in the start up program that
>might cause this. And there is no lag when I use the keyboard program keys
>to open an application such as Outlook Express or IE, or when I use the
>"windows"
>key to, for example, show desktop. It's only when I use
>the mouse. I even tried a different mouse with USB connection. Nothing
>seems to work. I'm not sure whether this is a hardware, software, or maybe
>even a mouse problem, but it certainly is annoying! Anyone have any
>suggestions about what I might do to fix this?

You haven't mentioned one of the most important if parts of the
system.What O/S?????

Anyway,start here,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/house.html
Although originally for win95/98/ME it still carries though for Wn2k
and WinXP.

HTH :)



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