I'm afraid I find the new site more frustrating than anything else. The "modern" software must be too much for my old computer, as everything takes forever to load. I have the same problem on every 'blog" type site I ever go to, as well as any site that has all those little social media connection icons. (And I do have a high speed connection, supposedly)
Scott k.
That has nothing to do with your computer hardware of XP, or Vista. You probably have bad ram sticks, need to degrag your hard drive, get CCleaner from Piriform, to clean your registry and all the clutter. I have XP and Vista machines that are just as fast as my two new "state of the art" (I build computers). The first thing you should do is go to the control panel and look at "System", see how much Ram you have. It must be in increments of 256. I G would read 1024. For XP, you need 2 Gig's to just make the machine run normal. I have 16 Gig's on both of my computers and 12Gig's on my XP machine, and I have no problems doing anything with that machine.
You either need to format, and reinstall the the software, if you have that feature built into your machine, I would recomend backing up everything you need too and then restore the computer to "day one". If you have the installation software, I would recomend buying a new hard drive, they're cheap enough, and re-install your present Operating System on that, and slave your present hard drive. This will gie you a clean fresh install and your computer will be functional for quite some time. Even if you only used it off line, you could do much work with a computer that never sees the Internet. You create a LAN in your home (using WiFi), and use your computer for run of the mill work, like printing, creating paper models, etc.
The "modern software' is actually easier for older machines as it is written better.