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No it was just a standard version of xp pro. And i got the driver from acer website, and have tried updated versions as well to no avail.

Hello Wonder if anyone can help, bit stuck with a laptop. Story is, my mates fairly new Acer Aspire 3690 was in a pretty unusable state, really slow and cpu use always through the roof even with nothing running, and running vista with pretty low ram (512mb). As he is not very technically minded I offered to format it for him and install xp instead to see if it ran any better. I have done this, it seemed to work pretty well but unfortunately it still isn't running very well on the internet. It connects to our wireless internet okay (I think it's using windows to do this) but it seems really slow compared to our dell laptop (which is a similar spec), it downloads pages quite slowly and refuses to conect to many sites at all (I think its timing out). I downloaded the network adapter driver but it did ask a rather strange thing when it was installing - "the installation program installs the driver automatically when the client adapter i inserted. Insert the adapter now if it is not yet inserted, cancel the new found hardware wizard if it appears, and proceed with the installation. click ok to continue". Dunno if this is relevant but thought I'd include it anyway, as you may have worked out I'm not exactly part of the I.T. crowd either so any help massively appreciated Cheers Minski