Now, installing Windows XP is just old-hat. So yesterday, I bit the bullet, backed up all my files to an external drive, and started over. The hard drive was continuously thrashing, even though the disk was showing only 20% full and wasn't fragmented in the least. This sluggishness showed up when doing other taxing tasks such as loading up Firefox or IE. Now, I know Photoshop is a hog, and it's the age old joke of no matter how much RAM you have, it's only "almost" enough to run Photoshop, but this was just embarrassing performance for a Pentium D 2.8GHz with a gig of RAM. Well, after three months of me adding and removing my own software as needed, the system reached a point where pasting an image into Photoshop to resize was a serious undertaking that pushed the machine to the very edge of its capabilities. It had belonged to someone else before I started working here, and when I started, I didn't think to take the time to wipe it down and rebuild it to make sure there wasn't any lingering wonkiness from old applications or files. Yesterday, I reformatted my main work PC.
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