XP slowdown

[hotmale]

rik, sorry for the late reply. It works fine in safe mode. It's also fast in normal mode right after booting. But after a few minutes, it becomes very slow again. I know a slight slow down is normal, but this is too much; like I said opening regular apps like MS Word, Hearts, WordWeb... takes up to 20 seconds. And if I use keyboard shortcuts to start programs, it's even slower.

I look at CPU and memory usage and most of it is unused Apart from the needed Windows services, all I have running most of the time is ZoneAlarm Security Suite, a couple browser windows and perhaps one P2P client.

[MartyW]

Check for registry errors with something like systweak