120 g hd; 512 ram; Ptn4; Slow operating system is probably (?) due to over 50 programs installed on C drive with Wind 2000 and some programs are quite large like Adobe Arcobat, Office 2000, etc. (C drive is currently 22 gig full and 5 gig empty) 1. Can I move or reinstall many of the large programs on one of the 5 empty partitions I have ? 2. Or is it better to move or reinstall Windows 2000 on another partition ? Or am I totally off base on what to do ???

Yes you can uninstall and reinstall choosing a different drive for the actual program file placement. You can't move just the files since all the registry entries have to be altered also. Reinstallation of windows won't solve this issue. Might move your pagefile to a different drive to free up space.

The answer is yes to both of your questions but to maintain your current settings I would work on reinstalling programs rather than Windows. If you reinstall Windows then you will lose your current settings. There is a program that can actually move Windows without reinstalling but I have forgotten it's name. Maybe somebody else will be able to help with that. To improve performance, ensure that your page file is not on the same partition as Windows. Use W2K Help for information re changing location and size. Use the recommended size both for Max and Min.

Defrag your drive - more than once if needed, and yes, move the paging file to a different drive or partition. The page file should not be a big prob seeing as how you have 512MB of RAM

Thanks Wanderer, Tonto & Rick - - - I'm not familiar with the paging file. What do I look for ? And then move it to one of my empty partitions ?

To change your Paging File:- click Start, Settings, Control Panel, System icon, Advanced tab. On the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, and under Virtual memory, click Change. Because you have a number of partitions, a drive list will be dispalyed. In the Drive list, click the drive that contains the paging file. If you have not changed it before, it should be on C: Have a good look at the settings already there, make a note of them on paper. Then under Paging file size for selected drive, change to zero both in the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set. Then select another partition and type in the recommended amount in both Max and Min and then click Set. Even though there is a max and a min, your computer will perform better if the values are the same. You must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. Hope this helps.