1) Take as many of those "auto-start" programs out as you can. I'm very
much against "app spam" where every software maker decides arbitrarily that
you absolutely NEED their program/laucher/preloader to come up as soon as
the computer does. Skype and Yahoo Messenger don't take that much time to
load once your system is running, so why have all those things start with
Windows?

2) Double your RAM at least. 512MB will make XP very comfortable and
improve boot times greatly. And with RAM being somewhat cheap these days,
its not that much of a cost even if you have to replace your existing RAM.

3) Grab a good anti-spyware program, or two, or three, and scour your
machine. I recommend Spybot Search&Destroy, Microsoft's Windows Defender,
AdAware, and CounterSpy. Spybot has an excellent innoculation function that
keeps spyware from getting in at all. AdAware and CounterSpy have great
removal capabilities, but CounterSpy is only free for 15 days. And Windows
Defender is very good as well, however its active protection has a much
bigger footprint than Spybot's.

4) DEFRAG! Do a disk cleanup and defrag at least monthly. Its amazing how
many people never do this and are shocked to see how much their performance
improves once they clean up the mess that passes itself off as their
filesystem.

"Alan Whimp" wrote in message
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Hey all I got another problem with my lass pc. Shes got a Amd 2.93 pro ,
192mb of ram 160 gb hard disk . The problem is her pc running really slow
wen she logs in booting up is fine but wen it loads msn skype ABG yahoo
messenger n quick time wen the pc start up it takes 15 mins. We did a
virus scan on sunday n no virus

And she got 64 processes in task manager

Shall i does do a rebuild?

pleasse help

Alan W