system runs slow

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Elliott

I have a pentium III 1 gig machine. Till 2wks ago was
running win98. Quick and fairly reliable. Hard drive
died. Installed a new larger one (20gig) and win2000.
Did all the online updates including SP4. System is
substantially slower.

Simple things like right clicking on a file name to get
its properties or delete it can take 15-20 secs.
Sometimes it is quicker. In my programs like Eurora,
things which happened instantaneously as I clicked, like
opening an email message, can now take 2-4 secs.
Installing new programs which used to take a minute or
two can now take 10 or more - for example the simple step
like "generating desk top icons" can hang for 5 min.

Is SP4 buggy?

I run command.com antiviurs and have the current program
and signatures and have done a virus scan. All clean.

Any ideas appreciated.
 
Have you done a check disk and defrag? How about using Spybot and Ad Aware,
did you do that?

Cody
 
Did you install the W2000 drivers for the motherboard?
no I didn't. where can I learn more about that?
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The m/b manufacturer's web site or a CD which came with the m/b.

Andrew
 
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