Re: slow

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From: Rich Barry (rbarry_at_NOTsocal.rr.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:15:41 -0700

  Hannah, check for virus, trojans, spyware and adware.
         http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://safespy.net/Spyware_Hunter.htm

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

http://spybot-spyware.com/trojan.htm

http://www.spysweeper.com/

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/

"Hannah" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C66D2F04-149D-4D4D-B233-329DDC3534DB@microsoft.com...
> I have 768 MB of RAM memory, I maintain my computer, I have selected
startup BUT my computer is still slow. Usually my requests get done
eventually (so its not a pure freeze) but it can take 5 minutes to cut &
paste or do other tasks.
> Thank you for any help.

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