My computer is dreadfully slow, anyone have this problem?

It's a compaq with an intel celeron, Windows XP,

1.3 GHz, 250MB Ram, 40 GB hard drive, 56K modem, high speed internet.

It runs terrible! Could it be the norton protection on it is fighting with the windows security? I've done a lot in deleting files, defrag, etc and it's still slow as spring coming in northern Canada!

My computer is dreadfully slow, anyone have this problem?antivirus scan

Norton uses a lot of resources so get a new anti virus (avast,avg,mcafee,nod32,antivir) they use much lesser resources than Norton

Download CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/download/) and clean your system from clutter,download a registry cleaner (http://www.freewarefiles.com)

Then defrag again and do a scan of your disks

Uninstall applications you don't use

This should speed up you system a bit

Hope it helps

My computer is dreadfully slow, anyone have this problem?computer security

Insufficient RAM appears to be the primary issue. But you can try a couple different things.

I would run your task manager (control+alt+delete) and go to the Processes tab to see what is hogging up all of your resources. If you can see that some app or process is maxing resources, stop it and reboot.

If you have plenty of HD space but your RAM is pegged out under the Performance tab then something is working OT.