Karl Falconer wrote:

> anything i can do without formating my partition to
> get slackware back up to the speed it used to be?
>
> PC specs:
> AMD XP 1.8ghz w/ 1gig memmory

That PC should be screamingly fast, Speed should not be an issue. Obvious
thing to check is "top -c", to see which process, if any, is slowing down
the system.