I am sorry, but I don't understand what you mean here. It's not as if this is a new problem either. When I got it, Windows 2000 Server was installed on it, and it was slow then too. If that's somewhat the gist of your post.

Back then I thought it was all the (for me) unnecessary software on the computer and the fact it tried to connect to its old "mate", a mail-server, on a network that didn't exist at my place.

At the moment I am just trying to get it to run a bit smoother. With Christmas mere months away, and my birthday mere two months later, I plan to wish for another computer to connect to this one and use this as the server it is intended to be.