I am not a computer genius, but I try my best, and lately I have been experiencing a lot of problems with slowdown. I am decently confident that I do not have any spyware and adware is minimal if any...

Also, every time internet explorer launches for anything my computer likes to convulse, shiver, and lag to all hell. While task manager -> ending IE fixes this, it irks me greatly.

I can't figure out why I lag. I try to keep my computer freed up from many programs running and all, but it always seems like I experience slowdown.

Does 2.52 ghz /512 ram not get what it used to/ =(.