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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CrusaderX" data-source="post: 2081713" data-attributes="member: 808">My system is a 2.66 Pentium IV with a 1 GB RAM and a 120 GB hard drive, running XP Home.  It's always been a very speedy machine for me, but lately I've encountered a noticable slowdown when using it.Even after running AdAware, Spyboy S&D, and McAfee VirusScan (which found no viruses), all with the latest updates, the machine is still slow. I've also downloaded the latest Windows patches and fixes, but I did not install Windows Service Pack 2 yet.I mainly notice the slowdown when trying to open new programs, or when switching between multiple programs.  Booting up the machine also seems to take a little longer than normal.  And the Windows boot up theme music sometimes skips now, or sounds garbled.  Songs in WinAmp and movies in Windows Media Player somtimes skip as well.The only thing that I can think of that may be causing this problem would be less free hard drive space.  My 120 GB HD seems to have a 111 GB capacity.  Right now, 56.2 GB is used, and 55.4 GB is free.  I've never filled up half of this drive before, and the problems seemed to start around the time the drive got half full.I've downloaded alot of stuff lately (music, movies, comics), so could it just be a case of my HD getting full?  Yet I still have nearly half of it free, so I'm not sure why things are slowing down now.Also, this computer has been used for a little over 2 years now.  During that time, the hard drive hadn't been defragged regularly - maybe a few times at most.  But I since defragged it over the weekend, which seemed to help a bit at first, but now it's back to being sluggish now and then.Any help would be appreciated as to what's causing the slowdown.</blockquote>

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