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Originally Posted by Bond
Definitely a video card issue, like Renwood said. You probably defaulted to the motherboard's horrible graphics card.
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Yep, that was exactly the problem. This is my parent's computer and I was reformatting it for them because it was so damn slow and probably infected with all sorts of shit. So I identified the graphics card and then went and downloaded the latest driver's from the manufacturer's website.
Anyway, I reinstalled with a stripped-down version of XP called TinyXP. It's streamlined with Service Pack 3 and all the latest updates. Takes out a lot of the unnecessary junk that Microsoft includes. And it's also free of Outlook, IE, and WMP.
So I have Firefox 3 installed on here now. And I burned the ISO file on a disc so it'll be very easy to reformat in the future.
So thanks for your help guys. Now I'm trying to decide whether I need to put any anti-virus on here or not. From my very limited knowledge, I hear Avira is the best free one. I guess I should also install the infamous Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware. What do you think?
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