I know I said was done with this thread but...
I'm on a 1.2ghz Duron, and I've had no probs at all. To the best of my knowledge, .NET shouldn't affect startup, or other programs at all. It simply sits on your machine quietly, and when windows runs a .NET exe or dll, it kicks .NET into action for that specific program. Unless maybe windows starts up a bunch of .NET services, but I don't think so...
Also, don't expect any performance improvements with 3.0. They should have never named it 3.0, maybe 2.5 would have been better. Its simply the 2.0 framework with additional upgrades for vista features.
I'm on a 1.2ghz Duron, and I've had no probs at all. To the best of my knowledge, .NET shouldn't affect startup, or other programs at all. It simply sits on your machine quietly, and when windows runs a .NET exe or dll, it kicks .NET into action for that specific program. Unless maybe windows starts up a bunch of .NET services, but I don't think so...
Also, don't expect any performance improvements with 3.0. They should have never named it 3.0, maybe 2.5 would have been better. Its simply the 2.0 framework with additional upgrades for vista features.