How many user accounts on this machine? Sounds like you are short on memory.

There are 4 users, but I have plenty of memory.

This is what I have:

Dell XPS
Intel
Pentium  D 
CPU 2.80 GHz
2.79 GHz, 1.00 GB of Ram
Windows XP
Media Center Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

This is the only article I could find on the subject, sort of. It sound like if you have several users logged and possibly running programs that it will slow down XP. The more logged on the slower. You might check in "services" and make sure "fast user switching" is set to "automatic" and is started. Other than that you might try running "spybot to check for malware and spyware problems. Microsoft anti-spyware is also a free product that works well. No 1 product detects all problems, use at least 3.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312058/en-us

Here are the 3 that I use, all free and the best.

http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html       spybot 1.4

 

http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html                 adaware 1.06

 

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx               microsoft antispyware

 

If you use Norton anti-virus I recommend you do not use Micrsoft anti spyware (or use with caution when removing spyware it has found) until this problem is fixed, read this link

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/02/microsoft_antispyware_deleting_1.html

 

 

Message Edited by mombodog on 02-11-2006 06:37 PM

Message Edited by mombodog on 02-11-2006 06:38 PM