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Old December 21st 03, 03:39 PM
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Suggestion 1: When was the last time you cleaned and
defragged your hard drive? If you've not done that
recently, start there.

Suggestion 2: Are you running KaZaa? The "free" version
loads an adservice and a spyware program called GATOR or
GMT. Both of these programs will slow you down
drastically, sometimes even freezing things up. If you
downloaded KaZaa, even if you aren't actively using it, it
may be sarting at boot up and running in the background.
If you have KaZaa and think it might be the problem, try
going to the site
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm
for directions on disabling KaZaa at start up.

Good Luck
-----Original Message-----
My computer is running very, very slow. My system has
Intel P4-2.40 GHz - 256MB DDR, 120GB hard drive.

When searching the web I have to use the refresh key all
the time. How can I find out why this is happening and
how can I fix it? This was not the case during the

first
2 months of use. I have had the computer for about 3
months now.

Any assistance would be appreciated. Truly a novice, but
learning pretty fast.
.

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