And about animated mouse pointer and all that unnecessary stuff - you don’[t need that stuff. It will not slow down your internet, but it will slow down your computer performance, that’s for sure… especially if your computer is not one of those high-end machines. Animating in mouse pointer is not huge, but it takes some serious additional time to process those tasks and considering that everything works in background, that means all other tasks will run slightly slower than usual… you don’t need that. You need your computer to run as fast as it’s possible, right ?

I don’t think animation can slow down your internet connection at all, but if your son likes to download every single crappy game or anything from internet, especially without checking those files, I’m pretty sure your system is infected with spyware and adware. Those nasties CAN slow down your system and sometimes even your internet connection drastically, believe me. You will need some programs like Ad-Aware SE and Spybot - Search And Destroy. Also, many times preventing is much better than healing, so you may consider installing and activating SpywareBlaster on your system. Best of all, all three programs are freeware, so you don’t have to pay anything to be able to use them.

Cheers !