Originally posted here by el-half
Of course an NT based machine is very different from a 9x machine but most "tweaks" are mostly the same, i.e. defragging, removing spyware, temporary files, cleaning registry,...sometimes the way you have to do it may be different.

I don't think he's still using win 2.1 , heck you never know, sorry for that sort off inappropriate comment :
Download Spybot Search and Destroy and see what happens... el-half is right, Spyware can really slow down your system.