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Although I've used this distro family since 2000 pre-fork Mandrrake7.2 I don't consider myself a Guru by any means, I would like to share what happened when I upgraded it may be of help Firstly I couldn't get the on-line upgrade to work for me, but thinking now that's probably due to my slow broadband. First of all I downloaded the 64-bit disk installed it keeping the partitions and then using the /home as my system backup thinking about it I probably cause problems doing that by re-using my set-up files and not allowing the installation software to choose the best window manager for my hardware. II did complane of my disto being slow that's cured now by the auto update in command line and a change of display manager.

Could you add information what the purpose of your post is? Do you still have some problem to solve, or should this be a suggestion for others?
BTW: why did you post it in Video subforum?

Suggestion I Fixed the slowness by changing video manager in boot>etc...

And which DM did you choose?

XDM instead of the KDM counter intuitive but it works

Well XDM is faster to start up, but how does that affect running performance when the desktop has finished loading?