One more thing, if you are running win XP, in the windows folder you will find a sub folder called prefetch, this is there to help win start a program quicker, it is however not a bad idea to clean out these *.pf files every now and then <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Furthermore have a check and see how many programs are running in the background, that you actually need, you can either go ctr-alt-del and have a look or go run type "msconfig" without the quotes and check the tab startup if you see any programs you don.t need at start up like adobe quick launch office bar etc just remove the tick and restart the pc, after which you will get a marquee (panel) with another tickbox tick this and say do not load again or somesuch ,.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />