No wonder. I've got five years on this one..........and have dreaded the possibility so greatly, that I just bought a new machine. The 10 hours required to reformat this one is better spent on new hardware.

Have you, or anyone else, figured out the cause for the slowdown? This machine has absolutely no spyware, no viruses, 1GB of ram, no heavy applications (the total is less than 350MB at any given moment, unless Firefox overloads the CPU). I regularly run Trend Micro, Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Clean-up.

Running Registry mechanic cures 100 "errors" in the registry, but the machine doesn't run any faster.

Anybody know the solution (spare me the "buy a Mac" responses, please)?