I was thinking about killing it with a cricket bat, or a fall from a great height, but then decided to ask the experts if they could help speed the bugger up first.
My PC is really dozy lately, OK its only an old 400mhz, and its running XP, but it used to be faster. It can take around 45 seconds to a minute just to load Firefox/Explorer. I've been through services.msc disabling everything I don't need, ran a virus check, removed all programs possible, ran Spybot & Ad-Aware. All I can think of doing next is a defrag, but I'm not convinced it will make much difference. Any ideas what I can try next short of a full format and reinstall Windows?
My PC is really dozy lately, OK its only an old 400mhz, and its running XP, but it used to be faster. It can take around 45 seconds to a minute just to load Firefox/Explorer. I've been through services.msc disabling everything I don't need, ran a virus check, removed all programs possible, ran Spybot & Ad-Aware. All I can think of doing next is a defrag, but I'm not convinced it will make much difference. Any ideas what I can try next short of a full format and reinstall Windows?