My HP Pavilion Notebook Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
3.4Ghz Pentium 4, 1 gig of ram, 5400rpm 80gig hard drive

seems to run slower and slower overtime.

Internet Browsing is particularly slow.

Booting the PC takes forever.

I have defragged and run virus tests.

Have Webroot Spysweeper and avast! antivirus.

Have turned off some of the XP appearance options.

How can I speed up the PC?

Have recent Windows software updates possibly slowed the machine?


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"J. J."