since i installed windows me my computer has got very slow. its an amd k62 366 mhz with 160 ram with 4gb hard drive plus a new 20gb hard drive . It is very slow to open mp3 files in media player slow to load screens in premier lge manager 2002. I was told if i moved a file named page5 to my new hard drive it would speed it up the 4gb hard drive is full would i be better off moving that data to the new 20gb hard drive.

The RAM spec for your PC is OK but the processor is quite slow for an ME installation. However, it should run reasonably OK. Make sure that Windows has plenty of room to run, at least 500Mb and preferably 1Gb of spare space on the partition in which you have the windows swap file (virtual memory) running. Go to Start, settings, Control Panel, System, Performance, Virtual Memory, Let me Specify my own virtual memory settings, and choose a destination for the swap file, probably the letter of your new hard disk (just type the letter in the box, e.g. D: While you're there, manually set the size of the swap file to at least three times your RAM, for both the minimum and the maximum, e.g. you could use 1000 for each if you have 20Gb to play around with. Ignore the Windows warning and you should notice a difference after rebooting. If you have Norton Utilities 2001 or later (or Systemworks 2001 or later) use it to optimise the drives and the swap file by running WinDoctor, DiskDoctor and Speed Disk in that order. If not, run Windows Scandisk and Defrag - they will clean up your drives but can not optimise the swap file unfortunately. Make sure your 4Gb disk is not overcrowded by moving data or uninstalling a few programs and reinstalling to the new drive. Then visit this post http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/14062.html Also scandisk/defrag regularly, run adaware from http://www.lavasoft.de to keep trojans away from your PC and every few days completely clean out your internet files using the method suggested here http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/63127.html response number 44, plus delete everything in your C:\Windows\Temp folder after ensuring that hidden files are showing (if you don’t know how, go to Windows help index and search for “hidden files and folders, showing”). If you also keep your anti-virus up to date and run a personal firewall such as Zone Alarm or Tiny Personal Firewall, you should have a well run, neat and tidy installation of Win Me.

as usual, good advice from trev. follow what he said and you can't go wrong. the page 5 you mentioned is really the pagefile which is what some people call the swapfile. windows will use this as a memory substitute when ram is low during heavy usage. if your 4 gig drive is full then that is what's slowing down your system. as trev says move the swapfile to the new drive and defrag the old one.