Liam
I'd forgotten about that (used to use it myself a few years ago). However, it seems that this disk is beyond Diskkeeper as well - i've run it maybe a dozen times, and it still reports the disk as being heavily fragmented. The number of fragmented files is hardly changing too, the total is dropping by less than 1% per run, so I think the whole thing's in a mess. Backup, format and reinstall looks like the best bet...
Richard - HJT is clean. I have put in an extra 256Mb stick while I work on the machine so there's much less swapping going on but load times are still painful. Nothing wrong with the disk as far as I can tell (manufacturer has a disk-test utility which reports all is ok).
All a bit of a quandary, really. I have a very similar machine at home, and even while missing half its memory (that's where the 256Mb stick came from) it's far faster. And, apart from chronic fragmentation, I can't really see why there's a difference
