Windows XP running painfully slow...

[gator]

A month or so ago I installed XP on my wives laptop. It's a dell P3-400 with
a 20gb drive and 512 memory. Unfortunelatley it is running painfully slow.
( upgraded from 98 ) I have defragged the drive, deleted garbage files etc
but to no avail. Anyone have any tips on what I can look for. As a side not
I have two other Dell's both P3-350's with only 256k of memory and they run
great...

Thanks in advance for any help....

Jeff

 

[Dana]

Not sure about the sluggish computer, but, unless you live in southern Utah,
you could get busted for bigamy.

 

[gator]

Actually in Florida but earlier this month we have a Mormon family move next
door. 7 kids, only 1 wife. It was kind of a letdown actually.....

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Jeff;
Run an updated virus scan.
Or Scan for Viruses online:
http://security.symantec.com/ssc/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=IRLFIZTYMWPAZTJWUFJ
Run Disk Cleanup checking all boxes except "Compress old files"
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Clean-up
Run Defrag.
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Defragmenter
If you have file sharing software such as Kazaa, disable it.
Check this link:
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.php
Run Ad-Aware (free version) or Spybot to check for spyware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/ (Update if you already have it)
Or
http://spybot.eon.net.au/ (Update if you already have it)

This may apply if you recently installed Windows XP Service Pack 1:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=815411

 

[Dana]

Based on this quote of yours, you could lend him one!

"my wives laptop"

or did you mean your wife's laptop? ;>)