We have an old Dell Optiplex running Win2K at work, which is used for nothing else other than running eMU (terminal emulator) and occasionally we plug a digital camera into it and email pictures across departments.
Sometimes we wait 5-10 mins for a program to start up. Mind you, it does only have 128MB RAM! The anti-virus gobbles most of that up...
So, simply put, you need more RAM. Another thing: how much hard-drive space do you have left? If you're short on RAM and short on disk space then that's double trouble. As stated earlier, when your system runs out of RAM it uses the hard-drive as RAM (virtual memory). If you've got lots of space left on your hard-drive, you could increase the size of your virtual memory. I generally advise people to let Windows manage that, but you could try it and see if it helps temporarily.
Sometimes we wait 5-10 mins for a program to start up. Mind you, it does only have 128MB RAM! The anti-virus gobbles most of that up...
So, simply put, you need more RAM. Another thing: how much hard-drive space do you have left? If you're short on RAM and short on disk space then that's double trouble. As stated earlier, when your system runs out of RAM it uses the hard-drive as RAM (virtual memory). If you've got lots of space left on your hard-drive, you could increase the size of your virtual memory. I generally advise people to let Windows manage that, but you could try it and see if it helps temporarily.