PC is drastically slower since updates were installed

You can run System Restore from accessories, system tools
and fix this problem, just look for the day that you
installed that update and choose a restore point before
that time.

-----Original Message-----
I have a pentium 4, 2.53GHZ, 384 MB Ram PC with 9% of the
hard drive in use and just recently in the last couple of
weeks my PC is running much slower. I am having to wait
so much longer for an application to start when an icon
is clicked etc... The problems seem to have started since
I installed some critical windows updates and other
updates, noteably DirectX 9.0a. I have tried defraging
the hard drive, using disk clean-up and scaning for
errors using Norton Anti-virus all with no success in
regaining my original speed. I cant use system restore to
roll back to a good point since I dont have the relevant
restore points available, only the most recent. Task
manager indicates that I am always well within my systems
limitations and that I have more than enough RAM etc
available to use. Please help as it very frustrating. My
Dads windows 95 is currently faster.
Many Thanks
Justin
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