Excessive whipping of hard drive

My OS is Windows xp home sp3 with all updates. The computer is an amd athlon xp1700 +.  There are 500 MB of ram.

I run McAfee, Spybot, AdAware, Defender and Sophos Anti-Rootkit.  I stopped all the cookies and eliminated most of the items in Msconfig.  Virtual memory is set to normal.

Most of the programs have been eliminated using Revo Uninstaller.

The computer is very slow and disk hard yet flogs excessively.  I know that RAM is a bit small, but it is an old machine that I use to learn a few things on.

After its start the Task Manager is finally settling down to 4% or less, but the use of the PF is still about 800 MB.  Hard drive flashing continuously.  It takes a minute or two to open an application.

Does anyone have an idea on what's the problem?

You have too much security running resident programs. Get rid of them all and replace with:

1. a single anti-virus program that is light on system resources. I recommend (trade) of NOD32, Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials if you want a free.

2. the Windows Firewall is very good for most people.

3. an antispyware program that is not running in the background. I prefer the free version of Malwarebyte Anti-Malware . Update and scan with it manually once a week or more.

Here are two articles that I wrote for my clients that you may find useful:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/staying-safe.PDF
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/Too_Much_Security.PDF

MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

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