extrem SLOW COMPUTER

M i HAVE A DELL DIMENSIONS L667R COMPUTER RUN BY WINDOWS
M UPDATED 98 VERSION. I ALSO HAVE COMCAST CABLE INTERNET
M SERICE. ANY IDEA ON WHAT TO DO TO SPEED UP COMPUTER???
M VERY SLOW???? HELP

As someone else noted, turn off the Caps Lock -- typing in all
capitals is considerd 'shouting' in text. (As well as hard to read.)

Now the question is, _what_ is slow? Was it a sudden slow-down? Did
adding the cable internet connection cause the computer to suddenly
slow, or are the two not related?

One way to increase computer speed is to defrag (defragment) your hard
drive. The slowness would generally be slow onset. A fragmented
drive means the files are broken into pieces and scattered all over
the place -- the computer has to "put them back together" and this
takes a little time.

If you have a drive which is near capacity (do you need to clean out
the recycle bin?) that could also cause some strange slow-downs. I
had a recent slowdown on my W2K system when doing mailruns -- the
drive where the files and session logs are stored was nearly full but
the other drives were fine. Did a little house cleaning and the speed
is back to normal.

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