I have drupal up and running (on both web servers on windows XP) but it is extremely (5-90 secs / each request especially admin-->modules). I researched this topic and tried many methods and all did not remedy the problem. Here is some things I did:

1. Disabled the update module
2. Increased memory_limit to over 512M
3. Increased the timeout time to over 180s
4. Removed excess CSS / JS.

I really enjoy using drupal but it is frustrating when it is really slow on the localhost. Does anyone have another solution or a fix to this problem? It is all over the web and there isnt a clear solution...