Ok, my WinXP system is running slower than normal and I hear a ton of harddrive activity all the time.

I ran HJC and parsed it...nothing out of the ordinary and I recognized everything. I look at task manager and my CPU usage isnt high but the standard system idle process is taking 95%+ of it.

I ran adware, spybot, ewido...just cookies found.

Thoughts? Also, what is the best free tool to optimize or help me free up the resources on this system? All my systems start out fast and slowly get congested. Or procedure as I am medium computer savvy and could run through them.

thx