Significant slowdown.

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I have xp pro SP2 running on a 1.7gHz machine with 384mB Ram.

There is a definite slowdown in opening of folders and programs and for
example opening a word document now takes twice as long as it used to. The
slowdown is enough to be annoying.

I have Freeram xp pro running which shows me I have nearly always 50% Ram
available,

Windows Task Manager tells me there are no Applications running, and in
processes only System Idle Process shows 97%

I update and run AVG daily.
I periodically run 'Scan Spyware' and 'Spybot" but none of these show
anything.

Can I offer any more information?
Can anyone give me an idea about what else to try ??
I would like very much to get back to normal repsonse time.

TIA

Bill


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