Basically, new computer..

Finally. Well, I have it back. And it's faster. This is what I had. P4 2.4 GHZ, 533 MHZ FSB, & 1.5 GB 2100 Ram. I am now using a AMD 64BIT 3200+, New Asus Motherboard, Socket 939 FSB 800MHZ, & 2 GB 3200 Ram. Both systems use the ATI X800XL video card, and I kept both my hard drives of 160 (Master now) and the 60 GB (Slave.)

Dam fast now. I could also be the my entire Hard Drive(s) were wiped clean and re-installed. That I am sure has helped alot.

I had it built at Infinet Computers.

It's nice to have a clean O/S (Shaddap Jon!), but, I've discovered a few programs that I am no longer going to use. One, software firewalls. Just go out and buy a router for that. You can use it later to set up a second computer on the 'Net, and it wont hog resources that a software firewall does. Plus, the last few that I have tried (Zonealarm, Sygate, Norton's) all were very annoying. On my old system, Norton's actually prevented certain programs (email!) from working at all, and Zonealarm refused to uninstalled. As to the virus scanner, well, I went with AVG for now. Since Norton's sucked (See previous post), I figured stick with a free one and see how it works. So far so good.

Now the only thing left to do is settle with other software, stuff like p2p software, Adware scanners, etc. I think I am going to try Firefox for my browser now as I wasn't happy with Opera, and IE is just to buggy. Firefox is still slow on my system, but, I've found that they are no browsers out there that are any good.