k a few things how much space is left on hard drive, how many programs verses how much memory do u have

have we cleaned it out are all the vents clean of dust and inside use a vacuum gently and or get a can of compressed air

kick it lol

u can go to savemybutt dot com and download free softwared that also spy blocks and adware cleaner and scanning 4 virus is good it has some neat products been using a few of them for years

if u go to windows udate site and get windows defender

if u got the new windows Vista it could be a mem issue for some reason and folks pay attenton if u get a new system with vista make sure u got at lesast 2 gigs of memory vista runs better on two than one and of course more than two is also good.

reboot your cable modem or dsl one they also have caches that can store a bad page

did u clean out your old temp web pages also when u cleaned your cookies, so many little things can slow down the process so i say it again kick it