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Joe is spot on. Although you don't have to format and reload every year it can help clean up messes (especially since you are probably running Win ME). Do you have any error messages or crashes? If so then definitely format/reload.
That said, immediately you can defrag your hard-drive, run several strong malware cleaners (I like Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes), delete all cookies and temp files, and use a registry cleaner. Malware will slow you web speed to a crawl.
Putting aside your connection speed, you probably have a wimpy video card with not much (or no) memory and that will make screen refreshes slow. CPU speed will affect memory intensive stuff like videos, games and Photoshop but shouldn't affect web access too much.
Lastly, have you done any updating lately? My 3 Meg DSL was suddenly running at 1/2 Meg. It turned out to be a bum install of Java was killing my speed. I used System Restore to get to a point before the Java update and it is back at full speed.
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