HELP! System lacking

[Twinhead]

hi guys,
I don't know this problem caused by hardware or software. Everytime when I maximize, minimize or close the windows, the system seems like hang for few seconds, sometimes even almost 1 minute, and then recover. I used to use Aopen AK73 Pro and generic memory, and the problem already occured. I thought that was hardware problem so I changed to Abit KT7 and Crucial memory. The problem doesn't solve anyway. I use Windows 2000 Pro. Anyone can help? Thanks!

 

[crohozen]

what software are you running in the background? Also I would check and make sure that you have enough swap space on your hard drive. Like more than 50 megs left on your c: drive. How much ram do you have?

 

[Twinhead]

antivirus, ICQ and firewall. I pretty sure that I have more that enough of swap space in my hard drive. I have 256MB SDRAM.

 

[Jasonh100]

I had an epson dot matrix printer that made my comptuer do that.

 

[Twinhead]

I really don't what's going on my PC. Everything seems like normal to me that I used to install everytime when I installed Windows OS before. I've check the task manager. It shows that 'ieplorer.exe' used that most space of my physically memory. Is this mean anything? Thanks!