Old does not necessarily mean slow – something else may be happening. This page was made on a 400 MhZ Celeron,  with 256 Megs of Ram , running , right now, Word, Frontpage, Adobe Photoshop, 10 sessions of Foxfire browser , a firewall, an anti virus application and an FTP session. The operating system is Win XP professional. The machine, while not “fast” hasn’t gotten in our way.  While we have far faster computers in our office, they were not needed for this project.

  If your old machine is slow, or if your new one is too, call us for a check up. We suggest, in the meantime,  looking  to see what is running in the background;  check for spyware, and viruses ,  and, if you are on the web ( you are if you are reading this )  making sure you haven’t been hijacked. Common hijacks involve turning your computer into a spam email machine.

  You may benefit from an  upgrade.  Adding memory, for example,  can be a great help in speeding up a machine – but if you are doing nothing new, and the computer is slower than it was, it’s very likely software you neither want nor need is running in the background.