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"My main concern is performance. This is a new DELL, bought early this year, with P4 @ 1.6 GHz and almost 400 megs of RAM. A decent 40+ gig HD and a simple but sufficient ATI's 16 meg video card. It's all decent, and applications launch quickly enough...but as soon as more than a couple of apps are running, the performance decreases severely."
well, you didnt say what kind of ram (pc100, 133, etc) you are running, but I'd say the simple answer is:
get more (and/or faster) ram. from what Ive heard XP is a resource hog.
also, what are you running at startup besides the OS? a firewall and anti-virus? these will also eat up resources.
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