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Hi, I have a X200 tablet and I recently reinstalled Windows XP Tablet Edition from scratch and then installed all of the drivers from the Lenovo web site so that I would have a "clean" install. I followed the common instructions you find out there in terms of the order in which to install the drivers, etc. It has 4 GBs of RAM but only recognizes 3 GBs of course since it is XP and it has an SSD. The Device Manager is clean with no unknown devices and all seems great except ....

The machine is so unresponsive. Often an application will freeze up for 20 - 30 seconds and very often when I try to open an email in Outlook it will take 5 - 7 seconds for the window open, even if it is a short, all plain text email. I am at a loss as to what I did wrong here or if there is a problem with the machine? I have it hooked up to a 22 inch monitor via the display port on the dock. Man is it slow.

Full disclosure if it matters: the machine was configured for Vista 64 Bit out of the box but Vista doesnt play very well in our environment which is why I wanted XP back on it.

Any suggestions here?

Thanks.

My first guess is that it has something to do with the SSD. They're known for occasionally causing problems in XP; Vista and 7 handle them much better. There are some tweaks that you can apply to XP to make it play well with SSDs. Take a look at this post at Tom's Hardware; the links there may help you out: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/24728 ... ook-solved

Thanks. Maybe the easiest way to test this possibility would be to clone the OS over to a non SSD drive and then swap that into the system and see if that makes a difference?

ew6050 wrote:Thanks. Maybe the easiest way to test this possibility would be to clone the OS over to a non SSD drive and then swap that into the system and see if that makes a difference?

Sounds like a good idea. Give it a shot and let us know what happens.