With 2gb of memory your system should be doing very little hard paging. If you feel like tweaking your own and not letting Windoze do it for you, try a pagefile min and max of 500/3000. I'll bet it never grows past 500. Putting your page file on a different drive probably won't make much difference since paging is not your problem.

Your performance settings are the opposite needed for a workstation. Those you have are for a server. I'm curious why you chose those.

You did not mention how old your computer is. Perhaps you're just 'processor bound'. You can use the Task Manager to see what processes are eating up your CPU. And watch out for those programs that 'tweak' your system. They often cause more harm than good.

R