Slow performance

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My dell laptop over the past 6 months has been running slow. Start-up is
slow, opening IE7, or office programs also takes time (30 seconds or more for
word or excel). I have Mcafee and Spybot loaded which are run at least once a
week. Neither have ever report anything more than a minor tracking cookie. I
have tried all the commonly advised tricks, clean up, defrag etc but nothing.
No new programs have been added and most additional software like Photoshop
has been running since the computer was new. I have a separate portable hard
drive for photos etc so the computer drive is 33.6 GB with 20.3 used and 13.3
GB free.

XP service Pack 3
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
1 GB ram
Office 2007

Windows Task manager
CPU usage is normally in 10% and under range
PF usage around 532mb

Physical Memory
Total 1047904
Available 461856
System Cache 489220

Commit Charge

Total 519148
Limit 2523512
Peak 673184

Kernel Memory

Total 51500
Paged 37944
Non Paged 13556

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