I have a Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2. Computer is AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.17GHz, 1.00GB RAM. My C: Drive has 24.6GB Free and a total space of 111GB. Until a few days ago my computer was running fine but now for some unknown reason my computer is HORRIBLY slow at opening ANY file or folder. Even when I try to click on my start menu to bring up a list of programs the screen suddenly freezes and takes upto a minute before I can even browse my Start menu programs! Also when my computer starts up and I open My Computer I see a flashlight icon searching for my drives when normally those drives (C, D etc) all show up instantly now it takes 5 minutes!
I ran SpyBot 4 times already, defragged my C Drive 2 times and ran an antivirus 2 times already. I even adjusted my computer settings in the System program to run for best performance. Nothing worked. My Windows Task Manager says I got 43 processes, my CPU usage is 100%, my Commit Charge is 292M/2461M, My PF USage is 291MB. Also when I try to go online loading pages takes a lot slower than it used to. Someone please tell me whats wrong and how can I fix this short of formatting my drive.