XP is slowing down - everything is slower

[NotGiven]

My machine is a relatively new motherboard running pentium 2.5 GHZ with 512
MB RAM.

Pulling up web pages is slower the it used - yes I've cleaned the cache,
temp files and history. By slow I mean it can take 5 - 8 seconds to pull up
a new page. This not always the case, though. In generasl the trend is
DEFINITELY slower.

I can open a browser on an OLD system with NT and it's faster at pulling up
web pages.

I have my server configued with whatever it need to run Visual Studio.Net
(IIS,...) although I never use it or any of those servers. Does that slow
things down?

I look in my task manager and see I have 5 svchost.exe running: 3 as
system, 1 as local service, 1 as network service.

Help?

 

[Bob S.]

Try running AdAware6, Spybot and a virus checker to see if you have any
Trojans, viruses or other malware that's taking over your connection. Lot's
of freebies available.

AdAware is at www.Lavasoft.com , Spybot at http://www.safer-networking.org/
and you can run free checks for virus from www.symantec.com



Bob S.

 

[Guest]

Is it every page that's slow or just pages with pictures?