Speed up PC and Defrag Software

[chef]

GF chef's 3yr old XP laptop is running a bit sluggish.

Steps taken so far:

1) Diskeeper 2010 is on and is happily defragmented the drives (c for progs, d for data)
Q: Any better defrag software recommended than Diskeeper?
2) DiskCleanup has been run and cleared up a lot
3) Temp Internet files cleaned
4) Malware bytes reports no malware
5) RAM has been maxed to 2Gb
6) Hard Disks C) 120Gb size / 60Gb used , D) 80Gb size / 78Gb available
7) Avira is her antivirus of choice and has never affected speed to date (unlike Norton for example)

It doesn't run hot (i.e fan is almost silent)

Any other tips to improve speed?

[Spacecadet]

Windows 7
and check her hard drive is of the faster variety

if she upgrades to 64bit windows then she might be able to add even more RAM (motherboard permitting)

and shouldn't this be in technical?

[MrRobin]

What else is running in the background? Check windows services and task manager.

Uninstall any old applications not used anymore and run a registry cleaner.

Disable any 'add ins' that may be attached to browsers etc.

[vetran]

ccleaner.

pagedefrag.

See sysinternals (part of M$) they know more about windows speed that its natural.

Sacrifice a goat / buy a new one - oh no that's Apple.

[chef]

Windows 7
and check her hard drive is of the faster variety

if she upgrades to 64bit windows then she might be able to add even more RAM (motherboard permitting)

and shouldn't this be in technical?

I agree that is a solution but as she does nothing but write a few word docs and check her emails then an upgrade shouldn't really be needed.

[SimonMac]

CrapCleaner

Love this bit of software

[DimPrawn]

Buy her a Mac.

[vetran]

Buy her a Mac.

KUATB

[TheFaQQer]

SSD

[Spacecadet]

I agree that is a solution but as she does nothing but write a few word docs and check her emails then an upgrade shouldn't really be needed.

Reinstall then