Slow PC. XP Home.

My friend has a 5 year old Dell PC that came with XP Home. It has
become painfully slow.

The Desktop comes up ok but then it takes a long time to bring up
programs like IE Explorer. He's on DSL and I tried it without DSL
connected and it made no difference. It's just generally slow no
matter what you do, on the net or not.

He has an 80 GB drive and 256 MB memory. I don't know the processor
speed yet. The swap file is managed by the system. The drive has
about 50 GB free.

The Startup Group is loaded with *.dll's. Both in Msconfig and
MSinfo32.

I searched the drive for *.tmp files and deleted them except for the
Windows\Temp folder which has 313 tmp files and 10 sub folders.

I'm planning to delete everything in the Windows\Temp folder hoping
that may speed it up. He has a Reg Cleaner he uses periodically,
don't know the name of it yet. He bought it.

Would appreciate any ideas.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/