AMD Athlon XP 2600+ processor
ECS Elite Group Motherboard K7VTA3 V.8
2GB DDR RAM
250GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
256 DDR AGP Video Card (NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5500)
3 Case fans
1 Adjustable CPU fan (turned on high)
Windows XP Home
10Mb/s Cable Internet
IE 7
CA Internet Security Suite (Antivirus, Spyware & Firewall)
Now the questions......It takes about 4 seconds for IE to open to a blank page. It takes about another 5 seconds for IE to open any other web page and when it does, IE will lock up and stop responding half the time. I clean my cookies and temp internet files every couple days. I do a disk cleanup once a week and do a disk defrag every two weeks. I use Outlook Express 6 as my email server and it is slow and sometimes unresponsive. Other offline programs such as Windows Explorer are also slow. I have chosen to use "best performance" and "classic view" instead of having the best look. I use a system managed cache and have ran a diag thru PC PitStop a couple times, and it show to be in good shape/health.
What more can I do to fix this issue?
ECS Elite Group Motherboard K7VTA3 V.8
2GB DDR RAM
250GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
256 DDR AGP Video Card (NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5500)
3 Case fans
1 Adjustable CPU fan (turned on high)
Windows XP Home
10Mb/s Cable Internet
IE 7
CA Internet Security Suite (Antivirus, Spyware & Firewall)
Now the questions......It takes about 4 seconds for IE to open to a blank page. It takes about another 5 seconds for IE to open any other web page and when it does, IE will lock up and stop responding half the time. I clean my cookies and temp internet files every couple days. I do a disk cleanup once a week and do a disk defrag every two weeks. I use Outlook Express 6 as my email server and it is slow and sometimes unresponsive. Other offline programs such as Windows Explorer are also slow. I have chosen to use "best performance" and "classic view" instead of having the best look. I use a system managed cache and have ran a diag thru PC PitStop a couple times, and it show to be in good shape/health.
What more can I do to fix this issue?