well here it go...

1.7 GHz,512 MB,40GB,aureal vortex 8830 sound card, intel 845G/GL with intel extreme 2 graphic acc,win 98 and winXP pro SP2 (intigrated) on same machine,I got Mcfee 2003 as AV.

well the problem

I had earlier worked on win xp with out any pack, on my machine and now had switched to SP2. Both the OSes got slow down after 4-5 months of instalation. I allready had switched off system restore monitoring in all drives exept root. I had scaned my system for spyware and worms.....a complete infection free system.

why it could be runing like snail........????

sorry about the first post...it was 02:00 AM here..