jaded

I do my maintenance religiously,i feel thts what keeps the system performing at its best for as long as its destined to survive- a defrag (I Use Diskeeper Pro) a disk cleanup, chkdsk, regualr virus scans/spyware scans and also a registry cleaner. Talking of defrag, i feel the HD sizes have grown so huge nowadays but so has the average file size and i notice from just browsing sessions, so many files get dumped into the system. Also we download updates and patches etc etc, for which MS suggests a defrag everytime. What i like bout the defragger are the scheduling features too..great for daily defrag, uses very less system resources.

does the zip file contain *.theme file ? if so just go to display properties, click on themes tab. In the themes dropdown list , click on browse and then choose the *.theme file from the location. Then follow the instruction..

why dont you try "ethereal" and see if the network data transfer is slow or the read write to the disk is slow.