Well, your computer should be relatively fast with your specs. That processor isnt slow, nor is your ram ammount/speed.
"can i upgrade/downgrade my dell to 1-2ghz amd? or what would you recommend."
No you can not upgrade/downgrade your dell to an amd. They are 2 different chipsets/sockets. Celerons arent garbage either. They work well for just about anything but hard core gaming and video editing.
You say your computer is clean of spyware/viruses, but your hard drive might be heavily fragmented. Have you ran any disk defrag programs lately?
Also, what is the size of your virtual memory? It typically should be 1.5 times the ammount of ram you have instaled in your computer. So yours hould be set to 1152 megs. You can check this by going to the controll pannel -> system -> Advanced Tab -> Under performance click settings -> click advanced tab -> and at the bottom is virtual memory change button. You can change it to any amount you want but it has been noted that 1.5 times the ammount of ram gives you the best performance.
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