My System is running sluggish......

[stanz]

Hello: Need advice. I have a Dell 8300 running XP PRO, 1 Gig Memory,
SP3 (all Microsoft updates current) IE7, Firefox Release 7 is my
default browser. Not getting any error messages.

I have to do a system restart on a daily basis since after about 8-10
hours of browsing, playing casual games, the system performance get's
slower and slower to the point that I have to restart in order to get
some performance. Have scanned the system for adware, spyware,
viruses...etc., and nothing found. Have run a defrag, cleared out the
TEMP files, eliminated all unnecessary apps., hard drive is about 50%
full...etc. All drivers are up to date except for my Network adapter
and Graphics Driver (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft
Corporation)...I have never updated a driver and am a bit hesitant,
since I have read that if the most current driver has (OEM) after if,
I need to get the latest driver from Dell, which I have found on the
Dell driver site. (Intell(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection)

Could updating both these drivers help the browsing performance..??

The only thing I notice that even though the Web page seems to be
loaded to completion, the green loading circle (whatever it's called)
keeps on going and going until I physically stop the page, but this
does not happen on all pages. Some load quickly and stop.

I used the Troubleshooting info from Firefox and notices these two
messages:

WebGL RendererBlocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating
your graphics driver to version 257.21 or newer. GPU Accelerated
Windows0/4. Blocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating
your graphics driver to version 257.21 or newer.

Also states that the following :
Driver Version 5.6.7.3

From poking around the net, I am reading that my last resort is a full
clean install of XP PRO, SP2, SP3, (have all the disks) and all
updates have been downloaded from Microsoft, which appears like it
could take forever. I have done this one time a few years ago due to
a faulty hard drive, but it was prior to SP3.

Any suggestions are welcome....I am a casual user....no technical
expertise, so please keep the technical jargon to a minimum.

Thanks much....Stanz

[Md. Shamsul Kaonain]

You could try updating the drivers. If that does not solve the
problem ... I think clean install is the only alternative left :P You
seem to have already tried everything else

Kaonain