mchain
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hi Forlorned,
You’re lucky essexboy is already a part of your thread. Not being able to install Service Pack 3 would indicate some long-standing issues, possibly, and updating to the newest version of avast! is likely to be a problem for you until these other issues are fixed first. Can your system take another gigabyte of ram for a total of two GB’s? Two GB’s is XP’s sweet spot, just as 4 GB’s is for Win 7.
Ad programs such as Conduit, MyWebSearch, Ask toolbar, etc., should not be on your system and will have an adverse impact on system performance if not removed. essexboy can help with that.