I did what emsvitil suggested above.... only thing I had extra was the Yahoo toolbar. Not sure how I ever got it in the first place, and couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. It's gone now (thanks!) and so far so good. Dunno why that would slow my computer down, but it's working better now.
A lot of programs like java will put that in there automatically when you update or install if you don't uncheck it. It's tricky and I don't like the way they do that.
