I find that purging all temps and cookies once a day and changing my settings to check for newer versions every visit has slowed the little bugger down to a tolerable level. I'm going to put up with it as long as I can and then get a buddy to "upgrade" my operating system. I've been going to do this for a while and I guess the time for it is soon. It won't be a big job as I keep my accounting, clerical, engineering design, etc, on a different PC which is never connected to the net. I transfer files to this computer by CD but never transfer files from this PC to my "work" PC. Thanks for all the help. I truly appreciate your concern, your effort and your time.

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