Hi,

I have windows XP, processor speed 898MHZ, ATI Radeon 32MB Video Card,Ram
384MB and I am trying to run Age of Mythology (Latest Microsoft Game) which
requires system requirements of 450MHZ, 16 MB Video Card, 128 MB RAM.

However, the game really runs slowly?? Is this because I have a blueyonder
broadband connection without a FIREWALL or that have picked up a lot of
trash etc. which could be slowing the system down?? - If so How do I clear
it up?

Any ideas or solutions would be great.

Thanks,

Peter Randolph

"peter randolph" <randolph@onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
news:WVKtb.1$cB5.0@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...

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I do hope I'm not responding to a troll. Please do this first:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/internet...n_firewall.htm Running an
updated antivirus and spyware remover
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/ would be a nice first step to
deactivating unwanted background apps.

There are many other steps you can easily take to speed up your system but
it's pointless to pursue them until you've first shut down all the programs
Patrick is secretly running on your computer.

Regards,
Ian.

peter randolph wrote:
Turn on your firewall
(XP has a rudimentary firewall built in)
or try a free one from;
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...eeDownload.jsp


Install, update and use:

AVG free anti-virus
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

or some other anti virus program

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Spyware Blaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html