your.name@isp.com (Your Name) wrote in
news:your.name-3108101402380001@203-109-166-240.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz:
> The Usenet application may well be ready to use in 1.5 seconds on a
> new(ish) computer, but on this one it would take longer - the speed of
> the Usenet software isn't relevant ... it's the speed of the computer
> running Windows that is the problem. It makes no difference what
> software I use, the computer itself is still going to take 10 minutes
> to boot, and at least a couple of minutes to open up the software (and
> of course via an old USB 1.0 connection it will be slower than via the
> hard drive anyway).
>
>
"Newish?" Emachines T6520 AMD Athelon 1GB RAM from Best Buy about 3-4
years ago? Xnews works great on ANY Windows box....even Win 3.3!