system lagging

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Donna

I am hoping someone can help ... for apx the past two days
my windows xp *home* is lagging and freezing .. This is
not only happening when online... but also when I am
working offline. For example .. running frontpage,
Paintshop Pro and then yahoo messenger.. I will freeze for
several seconds. I can turn off yahoo and the problem
continues ... we have run adaware ....easy clean, disc
clean up and a defrag as well as nortons definitions are
up to date ... pleaseeeeeeeee any suggestions at all !!
thank you
 
Donna said:
I am hoping someone can help ... for apx the past two days
my windows xp *home* is lagging and freezing .. This is
not only happening when online... but also when I am
working offline. For example .. running frontpage,
Paintshop Pro and then yahoo messenger.. I will freeze for
several seconds. I can turn off yahoo and the problem
continues ... we have run adaware ....easy clean, disc
clean up and a defrag as well as nortons definitions are
up to date ... pleaseeeeeeeee any suggestions at all !!
thank you
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to start with i'd download and run these be sure to update them

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ adaware

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download spybot

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download cwshredder

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html some other usefull removal
tools

also do a full virus scan
 
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