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I've noticed my computer has been really slow recently...

When I turn my computer on, and the Windows desktop shows, I pressed ctrl-alt-del and went to processes and saw that heaps of background processes were taking up way more memory than usual! I open a small application and my music player and my computer is so slow it takes a minute for the context menu to come up when I right click something. I know my 256MB of ram is not impressive, but everything worked well a week ago. I've done virus checks, a windows defragment, ad-aware/spy-bot checks, registry heals and even uninstalled a few programs I don't use frequently. What's going on?

Thanks in advance, Alex.

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that's the way it's gonna be. 256 is basically almost the minimal amount you want to run xp on because some programs in this day and age are starting to really hog some ram.

512 is comfortable multitasking in xp and a gig is flat out perfect for heavy duty programs and gaming.

Try this :

Start>Run>msconfig>Sartup tab

Disable iTunesHelper, qttask, CTHELPER (if present) and anything else that you don't need. When I was running XP Pro on 512M of RAM I noticed periodic slow responsiveness after I installed iTunes and disabling two applets helped.

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