music PC has clogged up, stalling inexplicably and being indecently slow.

Not entirely sure where the problem lies so planning on nuking it and starting afresh with a new OS

Was going to go with XP Pro SP3 again.... seemed to always do the job without any fancy bells or whistles - but has it been bettered yet?

Have Intel Core Duo 7200 , running at 2.53 with 2 gig ram.

Need to run ableton, reason, cubase, lots of plugins.
Then need to work with image files (illustrator, photoshop)
Beyond that, nothing really.

Anyone tecchy out there make me a recommendation?

And does having lots of firewalls, anti spyware, adware alert things screw up your PC? Its seemed to slow down with the buggers installed, but maybe I'm just imaging... running AVG, adaware and outpost firewall all at once.

Ta' very much

jp