Now that I see your original post again, I'm reminded that you mentioned a slowdown, which makes sense now of Anne's post. LOL. So....never mind Anne. ;-) (Hence the importance of the original post in a reply). The easiest thing to do first is start with the disk cleanup (right click the drive, Properties > "General" tab > "Disk cleanup" button). Then do the usual chkdsk and defrag. If that doesn't help, then find out what you installed and changed since you installed SP3. Then remove/disable those programs or changes and see if that helps. I'm not sure what you mean by "When I move my mouse up or down the list of programs it seems to hesitate going where I am pointing." Where and when does this happen? Everywhere? Just one folder? What does the Task Manager show for your CPU usage? Watch that for a while when you see the slowdown. (Back is a bit better, thanks, it's really slow getting over these flare-ups. I have a few herniated disks and sciatica from them). -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://www.OrpheusComputing.com http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "LarryB" I'll leave it on and check for something else. I have removed many files to increase the disk space by backing up files that were quite large. Like pictures, movie files, map files, etc. When I move my mouse up or down the list of programs it seems to hesitate going where I am pointing. As if it is busy and then it catches up. (not the mouse pointer but the indication that it has selected it.) How is that back Clint hope it's healing. Larry Browning Have a great day Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin wrote: > Strange, SP3 is faster. Anyway, there are several ways of > removing it. One is through the CP and Add/Remove programs. > Another, the KB uninstall folder. > > Many times when you remove an M$ update/patch you'll get that > warning for programs that were installed after the update was > installed. Generally it may not mean anything, but sometimes > you may have to reinstall the program. > > First I would look for other causes of the slowdown. > -Clint > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LarryB" > > My system at work has slowed down quite a bit and I wonder if > it is > because I installed SP 3 back in May. > > My question is can I uninstall it thru the add/remove > programs > without > too much trouble? I started to uninstall and it said several > programs > might not work if I did this.(one of them was ERUNT) Could be > scare > tactics I suppose. > > Need an opinion. > > Thanks > Larry Browning > Have a great day ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . You can also send an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Your member list settings can be found at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=pcworks . Once logged in, you have access to numerous other email options. The list archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/pcworks/ . All email posted to the list will be placed there in the event anyone needs to look for previous posts. -zxdjhu-