slowing up

[Gluefingers]

Hi

2 questions;


1) I recently installed XP home & now it seems everything is starting to
slow up in responding. especially email & online

40 G HD
256 Ram
1.4 processor

Mcafee in background
No ADS in background

What should be running in background?

2) My serial mouse acting up - what would it take to do a wireless mouse?
cost? or should I do USB?

Thanks

JQ

Please CC me

[Frank]

Try going to your task manager and see what program is using the most CPU
time. If it is a background program you can disable it from starting up
using start>run>msconfig. Sometimes a virus can slow down your system
because it is going out over the internet trying to find other computers to
infect. Make sure you have a firewall installed, antivirus software and
windows all updated.
Try uninstalling your mouse driver. You will lose the use of your mouse so
shutdown the computer by using the ctrl-alt-del and then using the tab key
to move the restart key.
When the computer reboots it will reinstall the mouse driver which could
have been corrupted.
"Gluefingers" > wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> 2 questions;
>
>
> 1) I recently installed XP home & now it seems everything is starting to
> slow up in responding. especially email & online
>
> 40 G HD
> 256 Ram
> 1.4 processor
>
> Mcafee in background
> No ADS in background
>
> What should be running in background?
>
> 2) My serial mouse acting up - what would it take to do a wireless
mouse?
> cost? or should I do USB?
>
> Thanks
>
> JQ
>
> Please CC me
>
>