In article <Xns9DE4E746AD320noonehomecom@74.209.131.13>, Larry
<noone@home.com> wrote:
> 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!
Try a 10 year old second-hand PC running Windows 2000 with something like
256MB RAM (could be less, but is not more). It's S-L-O-W no matter what
you run or where you run it from ... and getting slower by the week, but
there's Windows CDs to re-install from.