It's running so slow, and it's worse on the Facebook game Farm Town. I can barely get it to do anything there. I have tried Chrome, Safari, IE and Firefox for my browsers, and only Firefox works half way.

I have run virus scans and malware scans. I have run a disk scan and disk defrag. I have unloaded a bunch of junk (although I do have quite a bit more to go.) I just can't figure it out.

I have done a hi-jack this log and will post it if needed.

While it runs worse online, it run slow as heck offline as well. I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 2...never could get 3 to install. I will be installing more RAM once these problems are figured out.

HELP!

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Hi ,

When you refer to " cleaning junk " from your pc are you referring to old files ? Temporary files will slow your pc's performance drastically if not cleared on a regular basis . These are files created by surfing the net and using or deleting files . You can clear these manually in XP by clicking :

Start > Run > and in the command box type %temp%

Alternatively there are freeware applications avaliable that thoroughly clean temporary files and any privacy files such as cookies , etc .

ATF-Cleaner.exe - www.atribune.org

Clean Windows XP & Vista Automatically

These are the two most efficient I've used .