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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2085711" data-attributes="member: 149">He does have a gig of ram, so I really don't think it's that he's running out of memory. Unless he is regularly running some real hogs of programs - Photoshop, 3D Rendering/Modeling software, large database crunching...If it is a lack of memory, then he should be seeing and hearing a lot of hard disk activity. Especially during the slowdowns. Is that the case?One thing that I can recomend is re-installing your OS. Windows does not tend to age well, especially if you install and uninstall a lot of software. Your registry can get loaded down with all sorts of little records and values as well as the system software having lots of left over bits from programs stuck in odd places. I know a fair number of people recomend that you re-install windows at least once a year for these and other reasons. It should also help if it is some spyware that your programs are missing.Last thought would be, maybe it is just getting to be a slow computer for current software. My old work computer was a 933 and it was good for about three years, then I found that it was taking half an hour to run this one macro. After I upgraded to a 3.4 ghz machine it litterally took 30 seconds to run. If you have been using another computer else where that was much faster that could also be affecting your perceptions of things.</blockquote>