Lemmy Kilmister perhaps you should stop useing U releases and stick with the offical builds for one. The main thing I notice with Slowdowns such as yours is that the CPU is getting hot. I suggest you check that before putting blame on the emu. Cleaning your CPU fans is the thing that is needed to keep the CPU cool. Do you do a defrag at all ? thats also a good thing to do once in awhile. Other things that can cause this is spyware or a virus and or software that you have installed. My PC is an old P4 2gig with 1 gig of ram and its still works like it is new simply becuase I make sure my CPU fan is clean and any other fan that is in the case.