Delete Internet exploder, get fire fox at...
www.getfirefox.com
I think its alot faster, better pop up controls, and runs fine how it comes. BUT it includes controls to set it how u want
I havent used IE except when FF was down for half an hour a month or so ago... Slowness was definetly back
What I would do is save your importaint stuff to a disk or something, and do a destructive restore (if u got the jesus disk that came with your computer)... Or let it go untill you no longer have the ability to save stuff, and lose everything (what we did

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~Nate