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Well, it's an early alpha, so worrying about performance isn't too productive, IMO. I'm sore over an XP SP1/SP2 bug, where the computer occasionally slows to a crawl momentarily, due to how SP1 changed XP's memory stack management. I thought MS was going to fix this in SP2, but it turns out that they didn't. It happens often enough that it affects my PC in everything from word processing to gaming.

As for the sidebar I'm talking about... click here.What the HECK is that huge gray thing doing on the right side of the screen, taking my precious space?

You say Windows Explorer is worse. What was changed? I think WE is okay... then again, I've never used another OS (besides some version of MacOS back in middle school, way back when South Park was a brand-new show.) Are we talking "crappy as a result of the performance" or "crappy as a result of interface changes?"

Yep that's the system clock alright. Unless there is magic in that there box taking up 15% of the screen, its pretty much useless. You can regain the screen real estate by turing it off though.

As for Windows Explorer, I was talking strictly about the interface. I go back to DOS V.2 which was OK by me, but not 97% of users. In Windows 3.1, the earlier counterpart to Windows Explorer was derisively called FileMangler. I thought is was a great improvement over DOS 2,3, and 4, and it never mangled a single file on my system. Since Windows 95 MS has been making the file management interface more difficult to use. They seem to be continuing the trend with LH.

As for your system slowdown problems, unless you know from experience it is a memory management problem, inherent in windows, check Control Panel > Administraive Tools > Event Viewer and >System, and check the error messages by double clicking on them. That should give you some clues.