ellissmith

Thanks, I'll get back about this later

Disk C has 144 gb capacity, 57gb is free. We pay an annual fee for Norton but haven't run MWB as I don't know if I'll have to uninstall or disable Norton first and if it's safe to do that with so many viruses around.

I've done the clean up and it may have helped a little. Not installed a different virus checker yet, would I have to disable Norton first? I'm not sure how to do that. Also I was wondering if it's possible to use Disk D to run Microsoft office from there and if that may help it to run faster. Disk D is 100 % free and I'm not sure whether we could use that to speed up the programs we use for our business. All programs and files are on Disk C.

Thanks again, I'll look into the possibility of a virus

I don't think we have a virus as the virus checker frequently performs scans

Thanks very much for your advice. We will not uninstall or disable IE. We will try the other options and clean up the laptop according to your instructions. Our internet is from Virgin media and is broadband 20mb speed. The antivirus is Norton.

We have a laptop with windows 7 which runs very slowly and are thinking of getting a tablet for internet, photos, music etc. .We would like to use the laptop just for running Word, Excel and Publisher for our business. We would like to know if we should uninstall / disable Internet explorer, I tunes, Java, or any other programs which may slow down the laptop as we will not need the internet for updating our files on Word, Excel and Publisher. Is this possible or are there other programs which may slow the laptop down which we could uninstall? Thanks, Rob