Because this XP MCE 2005 SP3 computer has been acting very slow I ran
one pass of MEMTEST-86 v4.0a yesterday on it.

No problems were found in the RAM.

I have been reading a book called Windows XP Annoyances written by David
A. Karp and have set both my paging file settings to 9165 which is 3
times the 3GB of DDR RAM I have in the box.

I just looked at the Virutal Memory settings and noticed the recommended
setting was 4509, but I guess 9165 is better, does that sound right to
you?

Sometimes when I Log on to my account I see a icon in the Taskbar that
looks like a rectangle with a line under it, and a small vertical line
in the center joining the rectangle to the underline.

I have clicked on it sometimes during the desktop start up and it will
vanish and a bit laterthe program "My Computer" opens up.

To me it looks like it might be some kind of Network icon?

I just looked at Windows Task Manager

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