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Bigjohncamp

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I have a IBM desktop windows 98 IDE 6.0 96 ram I have 91% resources left but the cpu
speed id 200mhz I want to know if you can speed up the CPU or is the the reason it's
slow loading web pages with pictures....John
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wannabe1

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Hi Bigjohncamp...

It's time to retire ole Bessie. Ther's not much you can do to speed up a 200MHz processor and 96 MB of RAM just won't cut it with todays applications, most of which require 64MB or more to run.

The slow loading pages, particularly those that contain images or complex graphics, are probably a combination of low resources (RAM), the slow processor, and your connection speed.

Add to this the fact that Windows 98 will not be supported by Microsoft after July, and you end up with a very real possiblilty for trouble.

Put the old girl out to pasture and treat yourself to a new XP machine. You'll be amazed at the differenc! :whistling:

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