Is this a recent upgrade?  Are you running WIN95?  Or worse yet 98?
Those OS were never meant for 486.  How about your memory?  WIN95 needs
12M, 16 better.  I've notice that laptops REALLY slow down because of
the time required to redraw the display.

What are your recent program loads?  More about the mschine will take us
from educated guesses to troubleshooting.  Look at your system resources
while you are having the problem, and report that to the list also.
Eric

R. Davis wrote:
>
> Help!
>
> I have a 486, 133 mhz compatible.  I have a 1.5 gigabyte hard drive that
> is
> divided up into C, D & E.  I have about 130megs of space left on each
> drive.
> I have run scandisk, and defrag on each drive already.
>
> My problem is that my system is very slow in responding.  When I click
> on
> the print icon to print out a page it takes about 5 minutes to generate
> the page, when I click on a icon to execute a command, it takes a while
> to
> respond.  When I go to open a program or file, it takes a while to open.
> Right now as I type this email, it is taking a second or two for
> the text to appear.
>
> Can anyone tell me what might be causing this and what do I need to do
> to fix it?
>
> Reba Davis
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