Open task manager up (shortcut key is Ctrl + Shift + Escape if you didn't know)
Go to:
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
and check everything that you're running. That will be a start and should remove any stuff that is actually slowing the PC down.
As a little footnote (and as I'm trying for a Blue Peter Badge too!) I found a formatted disk through NT Explorer would not boot but a disk formatted from "Command Prompt" would.
Never quite worked out why though (oh, you of course copy those files mentioned earlier over)
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