Just a suggestion to throw out on the slowness...

You might try cleaning your browser. Click on the tools tab in your Explorer screen, and then click on internet options. Click on delete cookies and temporary internet files, and then you should have a choice on which areas you clean up from there. It should speed your loading up by doing this.

The other thing that slowed mine down was how many things I had running on my desktop. If you have programs showing on your desktop, they load behind the scenes even when your not using them.

That's all I can think of... besides regular maintenance of disk cleanup, and defragmenting.

Good luck!
Suzi Q~