8.6.2000
Is your system not quite as snappy as it once was? Go figure. You've undoubtedly tweaked some settings since getting it. Do your Start Menu components take a while to pop up? There may be a few reasons for this crawl. What font are you using? If it's anything but MS Sans Serif, chances are: it's TrueType. Why should this matter? Well, examine the 'Effects' tab in your Desktop properties; if you have 'font smoothing' turned on and are using TrueType fonts in your windows dialogs (see 'Appearance' tab), you may be taking a performance hit. Use 'MS Sans Serif' (size 8) instead; see if that speeds things up. Why is this so? Because bitmap fonts (like MS Sans Serif) can't be smoothed. TrueType font smoothing is wonderful; it'll make certain fonts look cleaner on your screen. But you don't really want to use TTFs in your dialogs... I don't care how pretty they are.