Slowing down

Hi all,

Recently my HP laptop which is running on Windows 98 SE has become slow.
This is because of too many programs etc on it I believe.

Anyway, I have recently uninstalled many programs and only have the basic MS
Office package as well as a few other basic things on my comp. I have also
run Toniarts Easycleaner to delete a lot of unwanted stuff. Nonetheless, the
computer is still running really slow. It is mainly when I clock on, for
example, IE and it takes about 7 seconds before it opens.

Any hints on how to speed up my comp? I have wiped most stuff off, yet it is
still drastically slower then when i first got it (and when it had more
programs on it)

I have 128MB RAM (Yes I know it's not much but it still worked faster
previously)
64% system resources free
and also have 15079MB of 165750 (FAT32) available space on C: drive.

Thanks all

 

Have you emptied the Temp File folder and Temp Internet Files? Have you done
a defrag and scandisk recently?

 

Yea, done all of them! Still seems really slow!

 

I ran Toniarts Easycleaner and ran the duplicate files feature. It listed
literally hundreds of files, however I am wary of deleting them.

 

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Spybot Search & Destroy
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http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpyBot S&D guide
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Ad-Aware
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http://www.lavasoft.nu/
http://www.lavasoft.de/
Ad-Aware VX2 cleaner plug-in
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http://www.lavasoft.de/software/plugins/vx2cleaner.shtml
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Spyware Blaster
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http://www.net-integration.net/tools/spywareblaster.html

CWShredder (CoolWebSearch remover)
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