Not really enough information for the wise ones (not me the ones who have a
vague idea what they are doing) to reply, but many if not most slowdowns are
malware related, your pc might be loading huge amounts of data and sending
heaps of mail, without your assistance, so the perception is slowdown

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Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Cool Web Shredder http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
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"DARREN MOORE" wrote in message
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The problem I am having is that my laptop (running XP home edition) has
started loading internet pages slowly. This is weird because it wasn't
doing this before. Furthermore, my desktop (running XP Professional) is
doing just fine in terms of page loading speed. The desktop has the
wireless receiver attached to it. But the laptop is running the internet
off the home network. What gives?

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DARREN MOORE