How much RAM memory? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and
click the Performance Tab. What is the Total, the Commit Charge and the
Peak?

You may check on pagefile (virtual memory) usage with Page File Monitor for
XP:
http://www.dougknox.com/

If you get anything much more than 20 / 30 mb virtual memory usage you
need to add RAM memory. The system uses virtual memory for a
limited number of tasks rather than RAM memory.

Make sure you study the readme.txt file carefully to ensure you get the
utility to work as it should.

Have you installed any "memory boosters" ?

How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on each
drive / partition? How is the drive / partition formatted -FAT32 or NTFS? To
get this information, whilst in Windows Explorer, place the cursor on each
drive in turn, right click and select Properties.

I have recently dumped Norton Anti-Virus in favour of AVG 7 ( freeware ) and
Norton Personal Firewall for the Windows Firewall. If your system is
struggling
then a similar change would definitely help with your performance. I do not
agree with Mike Hall regarding Microsoft Anti-Spyware.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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<billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:OG34ocJDGHA.312@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Thanks, Mike. FYI, I run SPYBOT frequently, and it almost always finds
> just the same three nuisances that I wish I could find a way to
> block. I also have Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Beta running....
>
> I have been using Norton NSW and its predecessors for as long
> as NU was available, and they are truly a royal pain, not to
> use but to install and keep working without maddening error
> messages. But they've kept me virus and worm-free for so many
> years, I hate to dump them. And getting instructions from them
> always leads to pages and pages of print-outs and in many cases
> incorrect as well as inadequate instructions. But the inertia
> of scrubbing them off and replacing them is mighty hard to
> look forward to.
>
> I'll try the rest of your advice.....and thanks again.
>
> Bill L.
>
> Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> Bill
>>
>> Have you run any anti-spyware?.. SpyBot, Adaware, SpywareBlaster?.. if
>> you haven't, do it now.. you might also want to run Ewido's online scan..
>>
>> http://www.ewido.net/en/ .. it is abeta scan, and there is a warning with
>> it, but I have had no problems running it on mine or any of my client
>> computers..
>>
>> Do yourself another favour and dump Norton Utilities.. regardless of
>> claims made by Symantec, NU is a scourge..
>>
>> Benchmarking will serve no useful purpose..
>>
>
>
> --
> William B. Lurie