I have a Sony Vaio FX-140 and recently found it necessary to reinstall the files on my hard drive. I used the System Recovery cds and followed all the instructions. Now, even though I have not yet installed all the programs that were on there before, the computer is running exceptionally slow. It takes 5+ minutes for a webpage to open [The NY Times, for example] and up to 7 hours to download the IE6 upgrade. I ran scandisk; defragmented; cleaned disk. My system resources are 71% free. I use a 56k modem dial-up connection. A desktop I use shows no slowdown in performance [I use the same provider], so it's probably not Earthlink's fault. Any suggestions?

Have you tried deleting cookies, temp internet files and all the files in WINDOWS temp folder? If not try that, I usually find it speeds things up You could also try the repair IE option in add/remove too Kim xx

hello you will have to do all the windows updates agian. allso look in device manager and see if there,s any problem.try these links how to run m.e well verion 5 http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html and from jack g scoll down to see his post http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/34115.html

That also sounds like maybe your modem isn't set correctly, or you ISP is having problems.