download this: Darik's Boot and Nuke (Hard Drive Disk Wipe) ....

boot off of it and totally wipe your HDD clean as a whistle...

then boot off of your XP cd and do a clean install...

fast is relative...as far as general internet browsing and stuff you probably notice little...

but try and download a .avi movie and recode it to DVD...then you will know what slow is..my 3GHz system here with 2GB of ram will encode and burn a typical .avi movie in abour an hour....

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