any quick way to tell if this is a windows problem or a hardware issue?

Is your suggestion to reinstall windows fresh or just to run the recovery discs and install all the preloaded software?

I've been using my wife's X40 - lovely machine. 1.2 / 512Mb / 40gig I've noticed that sometimes it takes ages to resume from hibernate - as in over 5 MINUTES. During this time the progress bar moves along the bottom till the end of the screen, but nothing else happens for ages. Occasionally the hard...

roblim: When you say Clean install, you mean from the recovery disks that I make? Or from a normal WinXP CD. Also 6hours for a clean install! Is this because you have lots of Apps to install, or does it just take a long time on this machine? I thought just reinstalling windows, office, nero and fire...

I'm new here. I've got an X40 with the 1.2 processor 40gig drive and 768meg RAM. I was suprised by how slow it seems when opening programs and booting. My previous laptop had a 5400rtm 60 gig drive, and my desktop is about 2yrs old now, but it has a 7200rpm drive. It boots in about half the time. Op...