[quote="Old Reliable":45e49]yeah im sure there is an easier way out of it but formatting seems like fun...i'm gonna be doing that later this week biggrin:[/quote:45e49]

You should give the disk a format every once in a while for good measure. I believe that you can clean the registry as much as you want, but stuff still lays around in there that slows you down.

Here's what I would do:

1) Use Scandisk at startup to scan for bad sectors.

2) Defrag the drive

3) "cupcake" or get Norton Systemworks, and use CleanSweep.

[quote:7e7c8]Here's what I would do:

1) Use Scandisk at startup to scan for bad sectors.

2) Defrag the drive

3) "cupcake" or get Norton Systemworks, and use CleanSweep.
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#1 xp dont have scan disk and i told him what to do. basicly what you said i already said. did you read above?