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dennis:
it doesn't look like you've got any obvious malware, from your task list.

if you don't want to reinstall, go into the add new software control panel and uninstall anything you don't use. retail computers come loaded with all sorts of crappy software, like AOL. some things you have to keep, like IE, regardless of whether you use it or not.

also, do a windows update.

download and run some anti ad/mal/spy ware software. i use AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com), and spy bot search and destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/). but once you clean out your system, don't leave those programs running. set their options to not autoload. do this with all of that software that autoloads helpers and shit, like realplayer (if you don't use realplayer, get rid of it. it's evil). there's no easy way to disable ituneshelper and ipodsvc, though.

also, defrag your hard drive(s) and make sure all your drivers are up to date.

Splunkle:
Get yourself some more RAM.  254 (why the hell isn't that 256?) isn't enough - I reccomend 512 as a bare minumim these days, and 1024 is greatly prefered.

dennis:
RAM is cheap. get a gig. If you've got a DDR board, remember to get a matched pair.

Catfish_Man:

--- Quote from: dennis on 27 Nov 2006, 03:04 ---RAM is cheap. get a gig. If you've got a DDR board, remember to get a matched pair.

--- End quote ---

You're thinking dual channel, not double data rate. I really don't recall if most P4 motherboards are dual channel or not though, so I can't shed much light on whether matched pairs would be needed. :/

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