Hi Richard.....I've tried just about any and all of those speedemup programs you can think of. Not one of them has impressed me much....until now..Take a peek at XPSmoker!!! Excellent excellent program..I'm running a P4-1.6 with 512 DDR on a Gigabyte 81rxp mother board with a Radeon 900 pro mother board with 128 ram..this is the one and only program I've tried that's ever shown a real significant diff in my system...btw, no, I am in no way connected to this program, nor do I get paid for recommendations...:)))) It's a free DL, you get to use it three times before you have to buy, but 3 is just about all you'll need to see the speed dif..it's also got some other features that make it worth while..I liked this one so much I actually bought it. http:\\www.xp-smoker.com hth Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Matthew" <modelworker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 5:06 PM Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Still Sloooooooooow Computer > Howard kindly wrote: > > > Hi Richard ... just for your info, you can get to the "Services" by > clicking > > Start | Programs | Administrative Tools | Services. I am running XP Pro, > but > > it's probably in the same place. > > Don't have that on HE, but I got there thru Run "services.msc" and followed > the directions here: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm on which > services were what, and which I could set to manual, or disable. Checked out > another site with essentially the same information. Changed the registry > (oh, oh!) as per Cuffy's advice for redrawing desktop icons. Haven't yet > noticed whether on not there's an improvement. The other lag-time problem is > still stubbornly there. I'm stuck. *Again,* thanx, you fine folks out there, > for going to bat for me. > > Best regards, > > Richard > > > VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.org > > UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > unsubscribe in the Subject field. > > To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to > //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk > > Contact List Owner - dbcfour@xxxxxxx VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.org UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk Contact List Owner - dbcfour@xxxxxxx