OK, here’s it simply, the things that can slow down your browsing, assuming you have broadband and it’s running OK.
- virus software such as Norton, firewalls etc.
UNINSTALL Norton. It’s just rubbish, it slows your PC down dramatically. I recommend AVG Free (which is free of course) and just use the firewall built into Windows XP.
- spyware
Remove spyware with a VARIETY of programs – Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy are the main two. And they’re free. Also delete your cookies in Internet Explorer
- tool bars
Remove google toolbar etc. They just slow things down.
- less than 2Gig of free hard drive space on drive C
Small cache means the PC will run crap in general – make sure you have at least 2gigabytes free.
