I am running win 98 on a 500mhz p3 with 256 mb ram, and it used to dominate web pages. there was never any lag at all when i would type in text boxes and when i clicked a link the only thing i’d have to wait for was my phoneline internet. now, however, almost all webpages take forever manipulate. as i type in this box now, there is a bout a 3 second lag and my cursur goes on but no text shows up until i puase my typing. some pages are worse then others. hotmail has a 5 second lag for me if im having a good day. a lot of forums seem to take forever too.
i asked my friend about it and he said something about my RAM possibly going bad. is that even possible? i’ve ran scandisc, defragged, scanned for viruses, shut down all unneccessary programs, all to no avail. right now, when i right click my computer and check my available memory it says 60% is available, but IE runs like im trying to run 20 programs at once or something.
do any of you have any idea whats causing the problem, and more importantly, know how to fix it?
thanks,
isaac
