Something outside EQ would be to look at what's running on your system at start-up. If you're comfortable using msconfig or services.msc you can check out your start up programs and have the option of disabling them. I've found this to be the biggest reason why friends and family members systems run so slow. Awhile back I did this on my mom's computer. She had over 3 gigs of programs running on boot-up......when I was done she was down to 110 megs.
Another thing would be to see if you have malware or viruses running on your system. My personal anti-junk programs are malwarebytes, spy-bot and ms security essentials. One bad piece of spyware can make a screaming demon system act like an old 166Mhz pentium2.
Lastly if your system is old enough you can sometimes find decent prices on hardware upgrades. Even going from say 512MB of ram to 2 gigs would increase a system speed substantially. Upgrading from say a 1.1 Ghz Celeron to a 2.4Ghz processor can be really cheap if your system supports something like that. Check around for used hardware items; you might be surprised what $20-$40 can do for an old system.
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