Check to see if the HP printer setup program allows you to install just the
driver and not all the .. uh.. stuff they include. This should get rid of
alot of the overhead.

One thing HP has never done well is Windows print drivers. I always check to
see if there is a Microsoft or other third party driver written for the
printer and will use it before I do a driver only install from their CD.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Christensen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 2:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: OT: Win 98 Computer performance
>
>
> I finally found my installation CD so I could hook up the HP1150C
> (ALL-IN-ONE color copier printer scanner)  that I had
> attached to my Compaq computer to the new Gateway computer
> that I got a
> couple of months ago.
>
> After installation, my new Gateway now acts like my old
> Compaq, in that the
> performance sucks.
> The cursor movement is jerky, and I was in Eudora typing an
> email before I
> accessed the internet, and the
> character display was 3 or 4 characters behind my typing.
>