Hi Kent,

More than likely you have malware on the system. Some formal scanning with
updated antivirus and antispyware programming while in safe mode is in
order. Scanning in normal mode won't work as the smarter bugs of today can
a) avoid detection when active and b) restart themselves if disabled.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Kent Harker" wrote in message
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I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop running Vista Business with 2 GB of
memory. Most of the time when I start almost any program I get a not
responding message. If I wait 10 to 30 seconds the program usually responds
but most programs don't run very fast.

This computer is about 1 year old and it has worked this way since it was
new.

Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this problem?