Windows XP Slowdown

[fluiduk]

Ok so its been over 6 months since I last did a reinstall and windows is grinding to a halt. However I really dont have the time at the moment to do a complete reinstall, got loads of work on and cant be without PC for the time it takes.

Can anyone reccomend any other ways of injecting a bit more life back into windows with out a complete reinstall. Needs to be software options, no hardware upgrades, not that it should need any lol, got 2gb of ram and opteron.

Thanks in advance
Aaron

 

[fluiduk]

All clear on viruses/spyware etc

Got lots installed. Im a designer and have photoshop, illustrator, quark, dreamweaver etc

Aaron

 

[fluiduk]

Sorry for the delay in replying been at work all day.

Its an opteron 146 2ghz
2gb 3200 Ram
2 x 160gb Seagate HDS
Asrock 939 Dual Sata MB

Will give some of these ideas a go and get back to you all

THanks so far
Aaron

EDIT - I havent got a lot running on startup got rid of all the usual crap