Beginning last week I noticed a performance drop overall on my PC. Folders are taking quite awhile to open, and also my mouse locks up for 1/2 a second every 30 seconds. I run an 80GB 7200 RPM 8mb Cache WD drive, the whole system is approx. a year old. It originated with me having around 12 GB of space remaining. A few steps that I have taken are, removing some unused programs to free space, as well as turning off System Restore (which freed up an additional 9 GB). Niether of these corrected the issue. Pest Patrol, and Spybot 1.3 found nothing. I'm looking for any tips or pointers. Thank you. -David Savercool

start ... run ... MSCONFIG check for any unwanted programs in the startup. you may as well tweak your services, there are plenty of guides available ... http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_services/index.shtml and besides pest patrol and spybot, did you run an up2date virus scan? and last but not least ... sometimes a drive defragmentation works miracles :-) Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575

...and sometimes cleaning out Temporary Internet Files works miracles in speeding up your IE.

good morning, XpUser ... sorry, i always forget that there r still ppl using IE LOL Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575

Hi mattie it's almost noon time in the eastern USA. No problem :-) Sometimes it require the mind of team of volunteers to conquest the problem, you know. Have a Good Day!!