Pc is slowing down

[OrangeBattery]

My pc is slow, its a 1.5ghz pentium 4 with 384mb rdram, when I have my pc running with all the programs that I want I have about 240mb ram free yet everything feels slow. If I have 2 internet explorer pages open and I reduce one to the taskbar and then maximize it again it takes about 5 seconds to redraw the page. My favorites in internet explorer take about 3 seconds and all their icons keep redrawing. programs take about 5 seconds to start that only took 1 second in millenium. I have switched off all services I dont need, defragmented and have no spyware or viruses as I have run an up to date check. this never used to happen with xp

 

[ChoGGi]

use HiJackThis to help you in finding if you have anything extra you dont need running

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

and not that this really helps with your IE problem but have you thought about using Mozilla.

 

[TJSIII]

I removed the 811493:Security Update file from my system when it started acting like yours is and the problem disappeared.