Gateway 600yg2 Laptop 600 series chipset issues?

Question

I have a Gateway 600YG2 Laptop with the following specs:

600 series chipset

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 onboard graphics

2.0g Intel Pentium 4 Processor

1g DDR RAM

40g Maxtor integrated HD

When I use the notebook, the application windows, when moved, are choppy. I already know that this can be fixed when downloading the proper drivers, which just finished downloading. But, the computer runs much slower than ever before, and I just reformatted everything, and reinstalled XP w/SP2 (which is what it had before).

Can anyone shed some light on why this is running so slowly?

Are there some drivers I might need to update?

Answer 1

check how many processes u have running, do u have antivirus and/or firewall?

they can take up alot of uhh... power (forgot the word)