Anybody suggest a program that can be used to differentiate the speeds of sing core and core2Duo?

i am desperately making a research on whats going on with my desktop. It is core 2 duo but i am not satisfied on the performance.
Simple operations like browsing the control pannel or the drivers itself is desperately slow.

Some advices on checking the Hard desk, but i dont know how to check it. Its SATA 2 with 250 Gb capacity.

By the way, i tried checking my registry, defragmenting the HD, and cleanning in various ways but nothing gives advantage.
Please helppppppp..

Answers:
make sure you have enough RAM:
reccomended 1gb for windows xp
reccomended 2gb for windows vista

make sure you scan for any viruses or other malware, you can find free scanning software on the internet if you don't already have one(AVC free, Avast, etc.)

make sure you don't have a ton of stuff running in the background that is not necessary (this is especially true if you just bought a new computer as they usually come with a bit of bloatware)

...that's all i can think of

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