Originally Posted by
ilgoldstein
Do you regularly run full antivirus and anti spyware/adware scans?
Antivirus is scheduled to run every day, sometimes I cancel it but usually it will have run every other day. I don't use Ad-Aware as often (but I used it yesterday and it found no critical items, just a few cookies). Similarly, I've run defrag within the last week.
Originally Posted by
ilgoldstein
How old is the system -- sometime you really need to back up your date, reformat the drive and reinstall the operating system and applications.
It's 3 years old...I've had my HDD changed recently, but it was through a "phantom" copy of the disk and not properly reinstalling everything...There was nothing wrong with the old disk, it just was full and I got a bigger one...maybe new unit is a bit dodgy?
Originally Posted by
ilgoldstein
What OS and how much RAM?
Win XP, 1.3 GB RAM.