add & remove programs

[soybean]

Specs.  Originally came with 256MB of RAM.  Is that what you still have?  Doubling that amount would make a big difference.  Per the specs link, it will support up to 1GB of RAM.

And, it has integrated graphics, which is most likely what the Intel(R) Extreme Graphics Driver is for.  And, at some point, you added an AGP video card, right?

[Allan]

Number of installed programs has nothing to do with the computer being slow, unless you're running out of hard drive free space.

Precisely. If you're having some problem let us try to help. But installing programs won't do anything except free up hd space.