I recently purchased a refurbished HP Windows 7 desktop. I also have a Mac laptop that is fairly new. I'm using a wireless modem with earthlink.net.
My speed when browsing using my Mac is just fine. It's fast and what you'd expect it to be.
But it takes this Win7 about 30-60 seconds or more to open a website. It even took forever today just to get the PCMatic control board to open.
And I've also noticed a much slower process in getting pages to print.
Before I try to get a refund on this refurbished computer, I thought I'd try to see if it can be fixed somehow.
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