Hmm. Are you ONLY having trouble with internet related speeds, or is the computer itself slow?
If so, it's probably your ISP.
Does it take ages to boot, noticable lag time when opening or closing windows, etc?
If that's the case, it could be a number of problems.
Most of the computers I've seen that have issues with windows being slow as heck are usually corrupted files or just too many programs installed and trying to start up at once.
Help! My computer-Internet MSN & IE runs SO SLOW as to be almost unusable. I've had the same computer for 2 + years, and I don't remember it ever acting this way. I have dinosaur Dial-Up 56k, but so do many people. I perform regular maintenance: Disk Clean-Up, Disk DeFrag, SpyBot, Registy Mechanic, Norton Antivirus. Web pages just don't load,(3-5 minutes?! or never) even though sometimes the URL shows above in the address line, and below in the task bar. Very often I use "Go To" again, also "Stop Loading" and "Refresh." Very often, when I do get to a website, newsletter, or whatever, clicking on the features of that page just take me nowhere. I wait and wait and wait, nothing happens, and I just bail out. I try rebooting. I have better things to do than look at a blank screen. But a want to do stuff on the Internet, and I am so frustrated I could weep. Anybody have ideas? thanks. ladytrickster

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