Extremely Slow Computer

My girlfriend's computer is extremely slow, and I was wondering if anyone
here had any suggestions. She has a Dell Dimension 2350, (I believe) with a
celeron processor. It's not that old (maybe 4-5 years old?).

I am always running her ad-aware and spybot. I just updated her Norton Anti
Virus and ran that last night. At this point, I'm not thinking it's any
spyware or viruses since they've all been deleted and cleaned out. She used
to have spyware, and a lot. Does anyone think that even though it's been
cleaned out, perhaps some kind of "permanent" damage has been done to her
registry as a result of the spyware I deleted from her computer several
months ago? If not, perhaps it's a hardware issue? Any other suggestions? I
guess she may need to defragment also?

Thanks in advance for everyone's help!


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