What Model Toshiba? You state that ram is maxed out, but A Toshiba with a P III, 
650mhz processor should accommodate approx 320mb ram. This figure includes 64mb built 
into the Motherboard.

Your first step should be to Add more ram. I reccommend Kingston if you can find 
it.  (Kingston was Toshiba Vendor of choice). Next clean out all the accumilated 
junk, including programs you don't use..

Go into Internet Options and reduce the Temp internet file size to 10 mb, find the 
option to empty Temp Internet files on exit and check the box to activate. On the 
General Tab, click on Delete Files. on the pop-up, put a tick in the "Delete All 
Offline Content" box.

Double click MY Computer, right click on C:\, select properties, find and click on 
Disk Cleanup and remove any files found. Click on the Tools Tab, Note how long it's 
been since last Scan Disk-Defrag, if longer than 30 days, click on Scan Disk and 
set it to run on next restart. Now shut down and restart and let the Scan run.

When finished go back and run Defrag, this will take some time so leave it till you 
don't have anything urgent.

I'm guessing your Toshiba originally came with Win98SE, possibly Win 2000 Professional, 
so you are dealing with an upgrade to XP pro. Not a big deal but it does affect some 
things. Definitely complicates a Windows re-install.

I would turn off the automatic Updates. MS has stuff you do not want on this system 
and they're more than happy give it to you even if, especially if, you don't want 
it. You can still get the Updates when YOU are ready for them. 

AVG tends to slow down Boot-up with it's Boot Scan, and I had problems with it on 
my satellite Pro. replaced AVG with Avast AV, have never regretted it. Avast is Freeware, 
Daily auto updates.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/

Hope this is of some help.

BW



There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.

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On Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 9:01 am, Linda wrote:

>Ricer, I have the following information for you. Steve, thanks for your input, I 

>will get back to you after I have tried a few of your suggestins:

>

>-RAM Capacity: 64 MB (extremely low, I know, but it's maxed out)

>-Free space: 3.81 GB

>-File System: Fat 32

>Speed: 646 MHz

>-Pentium III Processor

>-Total paging file size for all drives:  288 MB

>-CPU usage:  1% - 15% (fluctuates)

>-I have FOUR svchost.exe in my Task Manager

>

>I do not know what PIO or DMA means or how to reset that.

>

>I have not been using this laptop for months on a daily basis. I use my mac for 
surfing 

>the web and checking email. I was basically using it to do my medical transcription. 

>I downloaded AVG when my ZoneAlarm expired. I can't think of anything new I downloaded 

>except the new definitions and letting Windows software Update do its thing.

>

>Please ask me more questions if you need to know. Back later to try out some other 

>suggestions Steve made.  And thanks to both of you!
 

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