slow opening files

[Rusty]

My thinkpad runs windows 98. It's old but reliable.
I'm having trouble opening files such as gif,jpg,spreadsheets etc. Some open lightning quick, but some will take 3-5 min. There is very little hard drive activity during this time. If you ctrl/alt/del and click close it says that it's not responding, but if you leave it alone it will always open....eventually. As anyone into computers would agree, waiting is no fun. Thanks for any help.

[merlin_2]

maybe is needs a clean up..internet history /temp files etc?

[Rusty]

cleared all I can find, ran cleanup & defrag. How 2 search for hidden temps? I can't remember. Is is search *temp?

[merlin_2]

to cut corners rusty try this rocket powered <nasa> program>http://www.systweak.com/   and this is just one of folders thats hold junk>C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files

[Rusty]

Ran it on my xp machine, all's well.  

Burned a copy and put in my 98 machine, not so good. registry cleaner runs but at the end crashes w/ illegal operation. Start up cleaner can't find all users start file. I'll have to play with it some more. Thanks for the info. Any pointers you may think of will help.
???Rusty

[merlin_2]

more ram always helps...uninstall programs that you dont use like themes etc?