Using a 1.4 GHz laptop w/ Windows 2000 and Office 2000; the VBA in the Excel
takes roughly 10 minutes to run. Thought that was slow, with my boss'
blessing bought a new 3.6 GHz desktop (Intel 560). I couldn't get Windows
2000, so it's loaded with Windows XP Professional. Loaded up Office 2003 and
the same file in Excel 2003 takes 15 minutes!!!!!!! I expected it to take
around 3.5 minutes.

Very confused about this...

Benchmarked the new desktop with a couple utilities and it is running about
2.3x faster than the laptop. So why is the Excel VBA running so poorly??? I
have 2 GB of RAM in it.

Can I load Windows 2000 on this machine? If I do, will it run faster than
XP? I have to go buy a copy of Windows 2000, so I don't want to do this
unless I know it will work. The new desktop doesn't come with restore disks,
so setting it up for new OS is alot of work. I'll do it if Windows 2000 is
the answer.

Or, should a buy a copy of Office 2000 and load that onto XP? I'm thinking
the problem is with Office 2003, not XP since the computer benchmarked very
well.

Ideas, suggestions & commets are all welcome! Thank you.