1. it's taking like 5 minutes to open and about my internet explorer because everytime i tab it takes anywhere from 30sec to 1 min to tab and move on to the next field to type. i formatted my comp a few months ago and installed norton on my computer. as per the helpful hint of someone from this board and installed another virus protection (which by the way i am much happier with! :) but it hasn't helped the tabbing problem or outlook problem. any other suggestions?

I see you only have 64 mb of RAM, an upgrade would more than likely solve your problem. Also try defragmenting your drive.

This is a system resources problem. I have seen it a million times. click start/run/ then type in "msconfig" and go to the startup tab. refer to the following articles : 1) http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/ 2) http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm Use the second list to decide what you want to keep running. uncheck as many programs as possible....be VERY agressive in unchecking. ESPECIALLY MS office Startup. Just removing that should help. :-) Good luck. Delljohnb