I finally got my laptop on the internet last week so to have some protection on it I installed Ad-Aware SE Personal and AVG Anti-Virus free edition. before that it was running about as quickly as a system with mine's specs and mine's Windows version can be expected to run, which is fast enough for what i need to use it for. but after intalling AVG and Ad-Aware SE, it slowed to a CRAWL, like molasses in winter. it takes twice as long to load Windows, and after i put in my password to log on it takes twice as long to load the desktop icons wallpaper etc, all much much slower then before i installed AVG Free and Ad-Aware SE. which of these programs caused my comp to slow to a crawl and how can i fix it??? i already checked AVG's settings, there is nothing about priority. and Windows 2000 (Professional) does not include MSCONFIG so i can check startup programs. PLEASE HELP THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!

.. yes, it is Win2K users can employ msconfig from WinXP If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers

Probably Adaware , check to make sure it is not set to scan upon startup , if it is this will really slow your computer down while it scans and the OS is trying to load at the same time , doubt very much it is AVG this AV uses as few resources as any AV out there . You need to go thru the adaware settings and make sure it doesn't scan upon startup.