I agree w/crito the restore points kill your storage, ax all the shortcuts and run disk cleanup. also check firewalls and or security applications. -- Thanks / Mikerrr "Crito" wrote: > > I'm running Aero at this very moment with 512 megs and have 160 megs > free. I'm using an ancient MX440 with 64megs and the setup program even > turned on all the bells and whistles by default. So I don't think that's > what's hogging memory and making your systems slower. > > Turning off restore points, background defrag and indexing on drive C: > seemed to make this PC about twice as fast though. :| > > > -- > Crito >