Vista - General system slow down issue

- Vista Ultimate SP-2 (all current updates)
- AMD 64 X2 6000+
- 4 gigs PC6400 RAM

I am experiencing a general slow down of my Vista system, e.g., 5-30 seconds
for applications to load, 5-10 seconds for a new tab to appear in IE8,
applications displaying "not responding" while an operation is working such
as saving an image or file, etc.

This is isolated to Vista only. I have Windows 7 and XP installed (tri-boot)
as well and they do not exhibit this problem. So, I have to conclude it is
not hardware related. The system is squeaky clean; full scans with KAV
9.0.0.746 and Malwarebyte's Anti-malware. I've run both Chkdsk and SFC
/scannow resulting in no change. Task Manager shows no unusual CPU usage nor
Memory usage.

Any ideas what may be causing this? I do not know when it started but it has
been ongoing for a couple of months. Everything works but slowly. I've run
out of ideas as to what to check.

Hapkido wrote:How much space is left on the Vista partition?

Less than 20% and things start to slow; anything less than 10% and they
crawl.


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Thanks for replying... 96 gigs free on this 152 gig partition.

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