operating system removal

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i have had a computer given to me with windows 95 on it.i have installed
windows xp on it now but i thimk that i have not removed the old system as my
pc is now very slow and keeps getting stuck.how do i look to see if this is
the case and if so, how do i remove it? thank you

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Any computer originally installed with Win 95 is going to be mindlessly slow
running XP.. you are lucky that it even installed and ran.. I say lucky..
not really because it will never amount to anything..

You should either re-install Win 95 or get a much newer computer that has a
chance of running XP in a usable form..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm





"paul" <paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:79429791-2A76-4EEF-8277-D51307BCA033@microsoft.com...
>i have had a computer given to me with windows 95 on it.i have installed
> windows xp on it now but i thimk that i have not removed the old system as
> my
> pc is now very slow and keeps getting stuck.how do i look to see if this
> is
> the case and if so, how do i remove it? thank you

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thank you for your help

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

> Did you install from a retail full version of xp? If so, during installtion.
> you would have been asked where you wanted to install xp. As you had windows
> 95 that is where you would have told it to install (the C drive). You should
> then of been asked to format the drive. By formatting the drive you would
> have erased windows 95. As far as i am aware you cannot 'upgrade' from 95 to
> XP (from98/ME yes but not 95)
> Anothing thing you should take into account Windows xp takes up more
> resources than windows 95. It also requires more meory and processor speed.
> Although the original minimum was pentium 233mhz with 60MB memory if your
> machine has that sort of configuration it will move at snail pace compared
> to windows 95. You certainly need a faster processor and a minimum of 128MB
> of memory. You should also have notice that windows 95 took up around
> 250/300MB of disk space while XP takes anything up to 2GB
>
> --
> John Barnett MVP
> Associate Expert
> http://freespace.virgin.net/john.freelanceit/index.htm
>
> "paul" <paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:79429791-2A76-4EEF-8277-D51307BCA033@microsoft.com...
> >i have had a computer given to me with windows 95 on it.i have installed
> > windows xp on it now but i thimk that i have not removed the old system as
> > my
> > pc is now very slow and keeps getting stuck.how do i look to see if this
> > is
> > the case and if so, how do i remove it? thank you
>
>
>