Same here!
One other issue that I ran into yesterday, with my son's computer that seems to take a lot of abuse. I loaded it up with several antivirus and antimalware programs, including what I consider the top 3 programs:
1) ZoneAlarm (ZA) Suite
2) AVG Anti-everything
3) Ad-Aware 2007
His computer slowed to a crawl. I got rid of the ZA anti-email but this only worked a little bit. If you try to get rid of the active #2 and #3, you can **think** that you've shut them down, but they continue to work in the background (just do a Cntl+Alt+Del to search for AVG and AdAware remnants).
What you have to do is to go to the Administrative section (Start-> Control Panel-> Administrative Tools) then select "Services". In my case, I right clicked on all AVG and AdAware services and selected "properties" to both "STOP" them and to make them "Manual" (from "Automatic").
![[Linked Image from i38.photobucket.com]](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/alborgmd/emailscannerproperties.png)
Problem solved. Sometimes you don't have to reinstall WinXP; just turn off the stuff that loads up in the background! Another excellent (and FREE) tool is HijackThis.exe. If you run it, it'll show you ALL process that are active and allows you to turn them off just by placing a checkmark next to them.
