comp slow playing video clips

[gucciman]

hi

we have a dell inspiron 1501, about 15 months old.

for a few months now everything the comp does is slow, starting up, shutting dow, closing off a web page, opening up a messenger box, its all slow.
now when i go to a site like youtube and try to play a video clip the clip plays for a few seconds and then stops to buffer, plays a few secs, buffers and so on. this happens no matter what video host its on.

any ideas how we can solve this?

thanks

[markysngc]

uninstall any programes you don't use from add remove programes in the control panel, especially any which are showing an icon down by the clock

If there are any programes you do use that are showing icons down by the clock then see if there is an option in each one to not run it on windows startup

Defragment your hard drive

add more ram, windows loves ram and the more you give it the better it runs if you have

256mb you need more
512mb not too bad, could do with more
1024mb OK
more even better