Does XP mode in Win7 work pretty well? I have two desktops - the one with XP has a bunch of programs I don't wish to purchase a second time.
XP is soooooooooooo slooooooooooooowww in comparison to 7.
I know XP was so slow I switched. I also know my last work computer running XP sometimes took 45 minutes or longer to boot up before it was upgraded. 45 minutes. That's absolutely unheard of.
That's not an XP issue...that's an issue with your IT group, or more likely, a hardware issue with the actual machine.