It is impossible to offer specific suggestions given the information you
provided. As a minimum, you need to communicate a description of your
computer in terms of: operating system, CPU speed, and RAM.
Assuming that you have already you have run the tools needed to verify
that your machine is not infected with nasty-ware such as a virus or
Trojan horse, and that your machine has adequate horse-power to run the
applications you are seeking to run, then consider the following:
Your machine may be waiting for a response. Perhaps your virus
protection program is configured for the machine to automatically call
home for updates, and it is not getting a response it expects perhaps
because the internet link is intermittent. (check the settings on your
virus protection.) Alternatively, your machine could be seeking to
connect to some network, and for some reason the connection is neither
made nor the attempt terminated. (check network connection settings.)
Your machine may be working on a issue that it considers equally
important as responding to your keystrokes. For example, your virus
protection program may be configured to run a virus scan every time the
virus definitions are updated. Your machine may be busy trying to
update Adobe Acrobat, real audio or one of the many other programs that
seem to set up user's machines to frequently and automatically call home
for updates.
If you are running WinXP or Win98 the first place to the detective work
is by pressing control-alt-delete and determine what application is
consuming your resources. Once identified, you need to prevent that
application from starting either by reconfiguring the application
itself, or by unchecking it in the RUN|MSCONFIG|STARTUP window.
Admittedly, this reply doesn't give you the answer your would like, but
perhaps it gets you started on the path toward finding it.
WindsurferLA
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