Computer seems "sluggish"

[optimistic]

AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz on MSI MS-6340M v5.0 (KM133a) motherboard.
256MB of Hyundai PC133 CL3.
Seagate Barracuda 40GB @ 5400 RPMS
Windows XP Professional.

I defragged. Cleaned up start up programs. What else can I do?

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Can disable some of Xp's eye candy. Head to Display Properties -->Appearance (not on xp right now so I can't remember) and then Advanced. Disable things like shadows under menus n' stuff. Not a huge boost, but a step in the right direction.

 

[optimistic]

And what is KMaestro of C:\KMaestro\KMaestro.exe?

I diabled and nothing happened at restart...I guess it was okay to disable it.

 

[optimistic]

Holy Moly! 84 components found in Adware with updated reference list!! I'm sure cleaning this up will speed up performance!

For your convience
Ad-Aware (From Lavasoft)

Updated Ad-Aware reference list (Extract to "C:\Program Files\Lavasoft Ad-Aware")