10.04 too heavy for my hardware

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

I finally succeeded in installing (clean) 10.04 on my notePC, but it
runs uncomfortably slow
Hardware:
description: Notebook
product: HP nx9005 (DR582P)
version: KAM1.49 -> upgraded the BIOS already to the newest available
version
description: CPU
product: mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2200+ (should ideally run at 1.8 GHz)
*-memory
description: System Memory
size: 768MiB

Is there maybe something that takes up a lot of resources, but which can
be turned off and thereby
make it run more smoothly?
Or should I just forget about it and go back to older software? (9.04
did work acceptably)
Or should I try maybe some other (preferrably light-weigth) version of
Linux?
If so, are there any recommendations?

Thank you.