I would try shutting down Zone Labs temporarily to see if that's the
culprit.

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ron Kaplan
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:43 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Subject: Could more RAM help?

I am running xp Pro on a PC with an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.53GHz, with a CPU
speed of 2523MHz, and 1G of RAM. My hard drive is 300G and is still mostly
free space. I use Zone Labs Security Suite, with anti-virus scanning daily.
Spyware Doctor runs upon bootup, I regularly use Spybot Search & Destroy and

AdAware for spyware, CC cleaner for "tuneups", and Auslogics for disk and
reg. defrag. Still, though, my PC can be terribly slow too much of the time.
More often than not, when it's slow, the Task Manager shows 100% CPU usage.
Nevertheless, I'm wondering if adding 1G of RAM could help. A computer savvy
friend says that with my CPU, more RAM will not help. The service dept. at 2
Fry's stores said that was not true. Any educated guesses as to how good the
chances are that an extra G of RAM would help my PC's speed? Thanks very
much in advance for any assistance.

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