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Oh... and I firmly believe in an external firewall. Routers are good.
Now the RAm thing might be what I need. It still runs slow and even videos on YouTube keep stopping and starting a lot. I do have a thing tat comes up often that says something about memory. I'll bet thats it. Memory is cheap, maybe I'll check into that
If that is the case, you have too many items running at once. Take a look at the menu bar on the right. If you have a ton of little icons down there, that is what is taking up all your resources. Start turning them off one by one and see what happens.
Computers don't "slow down" as they get older. They just get more and more crap installed that consume more and more resources, leaving less for the things you actually want to do. Everything seems to have some sort of "monitor" program that is going to help you out in some way, but really all it does is consume memory and disk.
Try this on Windows. Go to your control panel and select "add/remove programs." Look at the list and sort it by frequency of use. If there is anything on there that you haven't used within 90 days, uninstall it. When that is done, run your disk defrag, restart your machine, and see if that doesn't give you a bit more performance.
Pete did you ever set a system restore point,if so that may do the trick.
As with everything else, my computer has slowed down after 3+ years of good service and I am thinking about a new one.
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Pete RAM is always good. Since your getting that note,,, you really have too much in your C drive. Move more stuff to that external you said you have. Get C as clean as possible this way.
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