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Originally Posted by helen_span
HiYa...have only connected to NTL broadband (1 megabyte) yesterday. Have an older pc, but has loads of memory, fast etc. and not too old. Using windows 98. have loaded the installation disk....do get into internet but very very slow! Also a lot of popups appear and am really STUPID when it comes to computers. Please advice me on how to speed things up! Thanks
Helen
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Helen. It sounds like you have a lot of spyware/adware on your system.
I suggest you download and install and run adaware. You can find it here:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Then do the same with Spybot:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
This should (hopefully) help with the popups, and may speed up you connection as well.