tricks to speed your computer
1. if you can get customizer xp, get it. I am not sure but I don't think it is free anymore. it does a million things to speed up your computer
2. start, run type msconfig check startup remove all of the check item except your firewall and antivirus and email programs so that you won't have so many things running in the background that are just wasted computer resources
3. go to display properties, change your desktop theme to windows classic, also change in the appearance tab to windows classic. change these 2 thing to classic will free up 60mb of ram alone. you use any old picture as desktop wallpaper
4. install zone alarm. turn on cache cleaner to make it clean your temporary internet files every 2 week. it will delete spyware like files that the xp clean up disc can't
5. get evidence eliminator to disable all of windows xp tracking services of you. half of xp resources is use to track everything that you are doing.
6. don't use IE
7. don't download free music. if you must download from filesharing programs, get you a dummy computer that you don't care if it get a virus or spyware
8. last if you do a reformat, use the xp cd to break it into 2 partitiions. make one 30 gig for your operating system, the other 130 gig for your data. you can move my document to the 2nd partition. you can also move your paging file there too. that speed up disc perfomance plus if you have to reformat, you won't lose your data. download all new things to the first drive and after a few weeks and you are sure they contain no virus or trojan horses, move them to the 2nd drive