hello ! I know this may sound dumb, but how often do you defragment your hard drive ? That is the number one cause of system slowdown. you should defrag every day, need it or not, because where windows can live with a set amount of fragmentation, anything more than two fragmented files will slow it down. (The two are your paging files, and your windows hibernation file, if you have that option enabled...) If you haven't defragged lately, or at all, the first time will take a very, very long time...but it will be faster after that. Also, try not to be doing anything else while you are defragging, because any opened files will not get defragged, either."THE EASIEST THING TO GET IN THIS WORLD IS A WRONG ANSWER!" "I "DO" WINDOWS...."