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Andy

i have a 2 years old pentium III w/700mhz. windows xp pro
in it. Since a few months i have some real hardtime to
make it runs properly. it is way too slow and it seems to
get slower every day. I think it is time for a little
general clean up. i also have a g drive with all my
personnal stuff on it. I was wandering, is it possible to
format my c drive without affecting my g drive and then
reinstall win xp pro on it(on my c drive). More important
will it be the best solution.

thanks

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The leading cause of system slow down seems to be spyware. This site has
great info regarding spyware and it's effects on a system
http://aumha.org/win5/a/parasite.htm . After the clean install you may wish
to look at ways to prevent your system from becoming reinfected.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
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| i have a 2 years old pentium III w/700mhz. windows xp pro
| in it. Since a few months i have some real hardtime to
| make it runs properly. it is way too slow and it seems to
| get slower every day. I think it is time for a little
| general clean up. i also have a g drive with all my
| personnal stuff on it. I was wandering, is it possible to
| format my c drive without affecting my g drive and then
| reinstall win xp pro on it(on my c drive). More important
| will it be the best solution.
|
| thanks
|
| (e-mail address removed)
| (e-mail address removed)
 
Yes you can format the C: drive and then clean install XP without affecting
the other hard drives on your system. See the other replies to your post
for good links.
 
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Colin Barnhorst said:
How often do you defragment your C: drive? What you are
describing
could be as simple as that (and sounds likely). You should be
defragging your hard drive very regularly. You can schedule it
in
the task scheduler for a daily or at least weekly run.
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You should defrag when doing so speeds up the computer. When that
is depends on your usage patterns, but for the vast majority of
computer users, daily is *way* overkill. Even weekly is more
often than most people need. Monthly, or even less frequently, is
sufficient for most people.
 
Andy said:
i have a 2 years old pentium III w/700mhz. windows xp pro
in it. Since a few months i have some real hardtime to
make it runs properly. it is way too slow and it seems to
get slower every day. I think it is time for a little
general clean up. i also have a g drive with all my
personnal stuff on it. I was wandering, is it possible to
format my c drive without affecting my g drive and then
reinstall win xp pro on it(on my c drive). More important
will it be the best solution.

thanks

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Format XP
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