slow when booting.

Few things to consider, 128 MB may have been enough RAM at one time but yuo will finding adding another 128 or 256 (it's so cheap now) will help.

Click START>RUN and type msconfig into the box and press enter. Yuo will see a new window with four tabs across the top, one labeled STARTUP, viewing the startup items you may see things you DON'T want to load at start, ie. Two Load Powerprofile entries, uncheck all but one.etc.
If you aren't sure what a given name is, look it up before deleting it, good place is deja.com to search for wierd file names.

Download the FREE adaware from Lavasoft.
http://www.lavasoft.nu
This will scan your computer for spyware that gets installed to ALL computers while surfing the web and allow you to remove them to clean up the registry.

CLEAN the temp files. START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS and run the Disk Cleanup program.

Lastly, DEFRAGMENT the volume! Click START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS and run the disk defragmenter.

oz is correct except on one small poin of when in startup, unchecking a box does not delete anything. It just will not waste resourses.

anything you uncheck you may recheck back as a startup item

On desktop right click on "my computer" and go tho the performance screen and see what your sys resources are

uncheck items in "startup" and then go back to the my pc performance screen till you have what you want or need on startup and forget the rest as they will be available in the "programs" menu

fred