For sometime i could not figure out why my pc was running slow. Then a programmer friend of mine said it could be all the casinos on it..lol
He gave me this command to try: Go to your start menu, hit run then type "prefetch" sure enough windows was still holding some "casinogame.exe" files in addition to other things. I just deleted everything in there (dont worry you can do that as windows will rebuild anything that it needs) I did a reboot and pc ran far better
Here is some information I have coppied and pasted regarding this command:
Prefetch when unattended can also slow down your system. This is because over time
* XP will retain a copy of a portion of a program in the prefetch folder even if you only use it one time, which is not good. Since you may not use the program again, you may impact the performance of your system by having portions of a program you do not use loaded in your system's memory.
* XP systems with very low hardware resources (such as memory and hard disk space) will definitely be affected by an over-bloated prefetch folder.
Well I hope this helps someone
mattysgirl