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[Scud]

1 MB RAM should be more than enough for XP, so I doubt that's the problem. Are the Macafee and System Care programs up to date? Do you know when they're scanning? Sometimes these programs will run scans automatically right when you're in the middle of something. Really slows stuff down. AVG does that, but I set it for 2 or 3 in the morning.

Next time it starts to chug, open the Macafee and see what's doing, if anything.

Another thing you could do to see what's eating up the CPU or the memory is to hold down the control/alt/delete keys at the same time. The task manager box will appear. First tab will tell you what applications are running. Second tab will tell you what processes. You can sort the process list by clicking CPU or memory or name. It's interesting to see what programs hog up the memory. If you want to know what a process does, like gnotify.exe, just google it. You can stop any process by hitting the end process button at the bottom of the window. I sometimes get two proceesses of Firefox running and the program won't open at all. I'll go in this way and end any I see running and that fixes it, otherwise I'd have to reboot.

All I can think of at the moment.

Dave