VERY SLOW LAPTOP -dell

From: philip Merry (philipMerry_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:39:02 -0800

I have a dell laptop 540 lattitude with 40gb hdd and a celeron
processorrunning windows xp pro, it has got to the point where it has become
unbearably slow and i think the easiest thing to do is wipe it and start
again, i tried the back up to copy my 9gb of personal files across multiply
CD's but it doesn't seem to support this. I don't really want to go to the
extreme of buying a back up drive at this point so would like to back up some
other way and then format the drive. Also any tips whilst im starting with a
clean drive of things to keep it healthy, up to speed and free of spyware.
Im currently runing Spybot and nortons internet security with anti-virus.

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