Slow Windows... ideas?

[rico]

I'm using my Mum's PC for a few days at home. The computer is a 2Ghz AMD with GeForce4 so not ancient.

It loads up as normal relatively fine. Then once Windows is up it takes aaagggeeesss to load whatever program I double click on, eg. IE.

Once the program is loaded it all seems to work fine. Also once the initial program is loaded, others load fine as well, its the initial startup of programs that takes forever.

Any ideas? My old 1Ghz PC works faster than this...

:scratchchin:

[rico]

Podie said:

Spyware..? Nice little virus..?

Mum's got the latest Norton and she claims its noticeably slower since that was installed.

I miss my Mac...

[rico]

FlossyThePig said:

How big is the hard disk and when was it last defragged? Not enough spare room on the disk can slow things down dramatically.

35gb harddrive with 25gb free...

[rico]

Thanks Jamie, Greg et all.

Just talked it through with Jamie, seems mum's pc is lacking in RAM big time...

Sorry for the blonde questions, haven't used PCs for 3+ years.

Cheers

[rico]

Cheers Scruffy. The RAM is tiny... less than 256mb. I'll upgrade that first then see if its still slow. Thanks for the offer and expect an email if the RAM upgrade doesn't help