Hi Jim

>What is a "PIV"?

Pentium 4

>What is the Mhz?

1.80 Mhz

>What is the RAM size?

512MB

>How full is your HD?

75%

>Is it possible that it's quite full and so now using fragments spread all over the drive to (re)write the VCXs/VXDs?

That is a very big possibility that VCX's are fragmented.

>Or, have you recently done a defrag that may have widely separated some VCXs from their VCTs?

Nope, never done that as I have just couple of months back formatter the HDD.

Thanks.