Potential Computer Problems

[Mephisto]

My new computer just recently shipped in, and now it's all set up.  However, I've been having a problem with it, and I'm not sure if this is natural, or if there is something I should be doing which I am not doing.  When I go to my desktop, and start running applications, it takes significantly more time to load the application then it did on my previous computer.

My new computer:
3.2GHz w/ HT P4
1GB duel-channel 400MHz DDR
Windows XP Professional

Previous computer:
1.3GHz Duron
384MB 133MHz SD
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise

If anyone knows what's up, please tell me!  

[Grok]

It's that dueling memory.

[iago]

I'd recommend formatting and installing Windows XP on it.  If it came with XP installed, they probably also installed all sorts of other crap along with it.  When I eventually formatted my desktop (500mhz) with windows 98 (years ago), I noticed a HUGE improvement over the factory installation of Windows 98.

[Adron]

Make sure you have a decent cluster size on it. Sometimes computers ship with 512 byte clusters.

[Raven]

It's that dueling memory.

That deserves atleast one lol.