Had some trouble recently with IE 7 acting slow etc, old Acer 9300 laptop doing well otherwise despite its years. Usual fixes, spyware search, reg defrag clean, registry manual check for things, running processes, , no Norton etc., all the usual supects. Not much change to slooow performance. Then started using (already installed) Firefox out of sheer petulance, when using IE again, things have improved....
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