[OT] : Strange Windows XP problem

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi All,

My wife got a hand-me-down Toshiba Satellite notebook from her company, 
with Windows XP installed, and it is really behaving oddly. It's a 
Celeron 1.1GHz processor with 240 MB RAM, or so the System icon tells 
me. The problem is that it seems to be really slow, especially when 
redrawing screens -- you know, when WinXP loads, it has that gradient 
background that loads before displaying the login prompt, and it looks 
like it is drawing each shade slooowly. Then, there is the scrolling of 
Internet Explorer, which is slow and jerky. I checked the Task Manager 
and it seems that memory is not the problem, always staying at 140MB. 
The problem is that, every mouse click, the CPU utilization shoots up to 
100%. Even if I am trying to scroll down a web page.

Is this what is supposed to happen? Is there something possibly wrong 
with the hardware or not enough memory ? Or is WinXP not supposed to run 
on 1.1GHz Celerons (hey, it says "Designed for WinXP" on the keyboard!)? 
Any help would be appreciated !


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