@ Ijexa


Come on, she doesn't know about all this bios stuff you talking about(not trying to say she doesn't know anything about her computers), it is not that easy for someone who just do normal work on the pcto knowabout all this computer jargons you have mentioned. You need to state it step by step, I remember in 2000 when i had my first PC, all those bios stuff was unknown to me. it's actually good you tried to help, but you were talking as if your talking to another Guru.

@ Nick wrote :Any less than about 256MB and this is proberly a major cause of the slow down

I have 196MB and my PC works absolutely fine and it is not slow.

Anyway Ido agree that if thereare a lot of programs that are running at startup, it may slows down the pc. So Ladyday, if you have programs like kazza etc which runs automatically after startup, you need to make sure they dont run at startup, because they slow down the pc.

Also, Norton Antivirus does slow down PC a lot, it is always checking some stuff after startup, it may be one of the causes. But like Nick said, if you have a small ram just , it will probably slow down your pc.

Ladyday, you saidare trying to learn and you may need to invest in a windows xp for idiots guide or pc know how book. My advice is thatyou may not need to buy a book, you should check google, type in whatever problem you may have there, and you will see thatsomeone has had the problem before. You can go to forums on google, you will learn a lot that way.

Most of the guys learn fromsuch forumsand theexperience of doing it themselves. I think the Computer Gurus are so nice, after finding a solution to a problem, they put it on the net in case anyone needs help or find himself/herself in similar situation

However, if you have the money to spend, why not, then you may go and buy a book, but trust me, you won't find the solution to all the problems your pc will give in the book.