Hey Danny--

You may find joy with one or more of the following tweaks on that old laptop:

*Change Processor Scheduling to 'Background Services'

Control Panel ->System -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Advanced -> and set Processor Scheduling to "Background Services".

Incidentally, this is a very good thing for anyone trying to run ASIO sound drivers to do also. ASIO is a Background Service. But now that we know that the Fast RealTracks loading is a Background Service also, it may just be one of the few tweaks we need to do in XP as a matter of course.

*Defrag the C: drive.
Do a Disk Cleanup first, then run Defrag. Ignore Windows when it says you don't need to defrag, just do it.

*Set your disk swap cache size manually

Control Panel ->System -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Advanced -> System Cache

Now select the manual setting where you enter your size and enter a size that is twice your physical ram size. W/768 ram, that would be 1536, okay to just round it to 1500 or any number near there.
i doubt if it is a lack of ram. FWIW.


--Mac

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