OK- that might give us something to work with.
It sounds like you're describing what in geek-speak would be called "disk thrashing", although the cause of that is usually not having enough physical RAM (memory) installed to handle the programs you're using: With insufficient RAM, the system uses a virual memory "swapfile", which is reserved space on your hard drive that gets used when you run out of real RAM. If your system is using your swapfile heavily, you will experience the sort of delays you describe. However, you did say that this problem started without any hardware or software changes, so I'm not sure if this applies here. Just in case, can you tell us:
- How much RAM you have in your system
- The model/speed of your CPU (processor chip)
- the size of your hard drive
In Windows 2000 and XP the Task Manager includes a tab which lets you view not only running programs, but running
processes as well; unfortunatley, Win 95/98's Task Manager does not. Assuming that you
do have enough RAM to handle your applications, it might be a good idea to check what processes might be running on your system. Use the links in the following Google search to find freely downloadable programs which will give you the same functionality of 2k/XP's process viewer in 95/98 versions of Windows; we might able to determine the cause of the delays by looking through the processes you have running (and thier CPU/system usage stats:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search 
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