System slowdowns and application lockups

[Jason]

Over the past several weeks, I have noticed a SIGNIFICANT
increase in the time it takes applications to initialize
and the frequency that applications like IE and Outlook
Express and media players are shutting down
involuntarily. I keep McAfee Viruscan online and up to
date and have run several scans to make sure I am not
infected. I still have plenty of free disk space (40000
gig) and RAM available (512 Meg). I do not know what to
do now to ascertain the problem so that I can return to
fast computing...

Suggestions?

[Gerry Cornell]

Jason

Possibility
You May Experience Performance Issues After You Install the 811493 =
(MS03-013) Package on Your Windows XP SP1-Based Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;819634

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Jason" > wrote in message =
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> Over the past several weeks, I have noticed a SIGNIFICANT=20
> increase in the time it takes applications to initialize=20
> and the frequency that applications like IE and Outlook=20
> Express and media players are shutting down=20
> involuntarily. I keep McAfee Viruscan online and up to=20
> date and have run several scans to make sure I am not=20
> infected. I still have plenty of free disk space (40000=20
> gig) and RAM available (512 Meg). I do not know what to=20
> do now to ascertain the problem so that I can return to=20
> fast computing...
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> Suggestions?