Also de-install Norton antivirus, & any other Norton Products you are not using. Agree with the memory advice - you need a minimum of 512MB for XP to run smoothly (and heaven knows how muxh for Vista, released today)
Laurie Miles
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Robert Treharne Jones"<[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: 31/1/07 6:04:19 AM
>To: "[log in to unmask]"<[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [GP-UK] Assistance please
>Fay
>
>How much RAM does your laptop have - possibly no more than 256MB if it's
>getting on a bit. AVG takes up a chunk of this, especially when it's running
>a periodic hard disk scan.
>
>Have a look at Task Manager so see how many processes you have running, and
>what proportion of the CPU is being used. If you have some strange new
>processes and the CPU is running at 100% then you might want to investigate
>the nature of the processes using a library such as
>http://www.processlibrary.com/ to exclude the possibility of something nasty
>on board, or you may want to invest in more RAM.
>
>Robert
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fay Wilson
>My laptop has behaved very well since I installed Mozilla Firefox, but:
>the Norton anti virus programme which came with it was running out so I
>installed AVG Free. Since then or soon after something has happened to
>slow down the loading of programmes and especially I have difficulty
>connecting to my email because the connection times out. There is a
>small delay with the Internet browser but not very much and it doesn't
>fail to connect.
>I have defragged he disc etc but no joy. Any ideas from those who know
>about these things?
>
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