In what era, 16 or 32 bit?
Edit:// might be time to defrag Grouch. I posted a link to Auslogics Defrag Screensaver. And have you tried compressing your registry? After long-term Windope use its registry gets all kinds of fucked up not just defragmented because uninstalling software leaves empty entries as bloat in the registry. If it's not the registry it's a driver or hardware issue.