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any ideas on making my laptop not run like a slug when i turn on party?

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First one that comes to mind:

FFR

FDISK, format, reinstall. It'll run like grease through a cat.

edit: this assumes that it once ran correctly.

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I was just talking to a friend about fdisk. Since technology has moved so fast and so few people have a good understanding of computer mechanics at the command prompt level, I highly doubt 95-99% of users could configure fdisk or disk druid since they are so used to bootable CD-ROMs and other whiz-bang inventions of this century!