[two23]

Go into your computer settings and click on icon for keyboard and mouse and you can adjust the speed there.

[cowtowney]

try rebooting your machine

[cowtowney]

If it has always been like that, adjust your settings at
Start, Settings, Control Panel, Mouse...

[ex-Texan]

I had a similar problem on my PC. It vanished after I down loaded Spybot and Spyhunter and removed a secret Trojan that was following every key stroke that I typed.

Another problem might be because your other old files my be filling up with junk from the web. Do a file search for 'temporary internet', 'cache', or 'post' files. You may find literally hundreds of useless files clogging your hard drive. Just delete all the junk and run the disk defragmenter (Go to My Computer and click 'Help' and then enter 'defragmenter'.)

[Falcon4.0]

You might have Spyware and or a Virus. If you have a virus which records your keystrokes and passes them to the Hacker, you need to find out before you lose your personal info. I have a friend to which this happened. He was lucky and caught it early. Spyware can also slow your system down. Download "Adaware" from zdnet.com in there Downloads section. Install and run. It will find all cases of Spyware. These are not malicious but are annoying. Be warned though, some software requires there presence to run. Adaware gives you the option to backup the files before it cleans your system.

[New Horizon]

Right-click on any clear area your taskbar...the bar that runs along the bottom of your screen, and select "Task Manager".

Then, click on the "Performance" tab. If your CPU Usage is high, you probably have something funky running on your computer.

Clicking on the CPU tab will tell you which process is hogging your processor.

FReepMail me and I can help determine what it might be.

[Iris7]

Try a cold reboot. Check Task Manager. Any funny Usage History? Svchost running when it shouldn't be? System Idle Process should be running pretty constantly with an occasional flash of System. The rest should be inactive almost all the time except for a one or two percent for a second or two. I think you have something not right running in the background.

This thing is hooked up to the Internet? How? Make sure your security software is up to date, I had an obsolete update function in Norton System Works recently so a W32 wasn't detected. There are really bad worms out there, and virus software won't touch them. Had to reformat twice in the last year.

[Clinging Bitterly]

This sort of problem is almost never caused by fragmentation, large number of cache files, and the like.

Whenever I've seen one get like that I'll suggest downloading and running Spybot and Ad-Aware. It's not unusual to find several of the little nasties running.

Anti virus programs won't touch 'em, and while a firewall might stop them from phoning home, it won't keep them from trying. Result either way is your system's resources are eaten up.

[boris]

"My computer's curser"

Don't cuss at the computer.