What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements? What firewall
are you using?

How much RAM?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Do you leave the computer on 24/7

I would be interested in  seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk
Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select  View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.

You can have too many Internet Explorer Add-Ons!

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Hope  this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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