I have a brand new dell CPU with 640 megs of memory. It has been
working great until I downloaded stuff from the internet. I have since
downloaded AD-aware and Spybot an dthey have been working great. Only
now I think I may have deleted something in windows that shouldn't
have been. Most programs open fast with the exception of my WinPlayer
and Jukebox programs as well as my Microsoft Ofiice programs. They
usually open fast but have been rather slow lately. When I click on my
desktop to open my properties or to change my screen saver the
computer takes forever to open the properties bar and even longer to
make changes in the properties menu. The same for the screen savers
and it even told me that it was unable to open screensavers that were
preprogramed into the machine when I got it. What can I do get this
corrected without having to reinstall Windows? Is it a drivers issue?
Thanks.

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Clarification of Question by bishop4ever-ga on 24 Jun 2004 11:56 PDT

Sorry. It is a pentium 4. I have done virus searches and ad/spyware
searches and deleted any problems. I am not on the internet when this
happens and it only happens with select programs.

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 27 Jun 2004 07:40 PDT

Greetings, bishop4ever!

Are you still having a slowdown problem with your computer? If so,
please post a Clarification here, and I'll be glad to help you
troubleshoot the problem.

Regards,

aceresearcher

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Clarification of Question by bishop4ever-ga on 28 Jun 2004 05:35 PDT

Thanks for all your help everyone. I have since wiped my PC clean and
reinstalled everything. It works great now. I have even added 512mgs
more memory. Thanks!

A few clarifications here: 

1. Dell made the PC, not the CPU. Is it a celeron, a athlon or a pentium ?
2. You mentioned ad-ware searchers. Have you tried a virus scan ?

Your problem is extremely vague.  I suggest you bring it to a shop and
if necessary, get Windows re-installed.

The point above regarding viruses is also very valid as a first step, though.

Are you connected to the internet when this problem happens?  If yes,
log off and see if problem goes away.  If it does, then you have a spy
program that may be transferring info. over the internet and it's
taking tons of CPU power plus Harddrive time.

Good Luck.

With absolute certainty a reinstallation of windows from the zero,
that is, not to install windows on the current one, will decide the
problem