I had the very same problem after being infected with the Antivirus 2009 and 
AntiSpyware 2009 malware ?trojans? (not sure what they are).  After getting 
cleaned out, incredible slowness remained (2-5 minutes for a mouse click to 
work).  After turning off the Spyware Doctor and Registry Mechanic 
continuous monitors, and adding RAM, it runs very fast now.  I'll still run 
the two programs periodically to sanity check my main security suite (McAfee 
Security Center) to see if anything was missed, but then again, the checks 
really slow me down and take a long time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Kaplan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:43 PM
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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