||||||| "Richard" == Richard Brookman ||||||| writes: || || Richard> Rule of Tim - somebody here will know. || Richard> My laptop has been getting steadily slower over the last || Richard> 6 months. || || In addition to the other tips, clean out the Cache in Internet || Explorer or whatever you're using for browsing the intraweb-thing.
I do that about weekly, thanks.
|| After that, take a look at what's using the most memory on the || processes tab of the Task Manager, and see if it's something that || shouldn't be there (report back here or google for the name).
There are four programs using >10MB:
explorer.exe (manages windows interface) svchost.exe (handles DLL processes) ccapp.exe (apparently auto-protect in NAV) msimn.exe (outlook express open)
Google searches all recommend not to terminate these.
Thanks Andy.