Ok I've done start up inspector and removed five "not required" programmes.

But this morning it's the same - some pages just seem to stall for about 5 seconds, then they load up. It's similar to dial up page loading!

The same used to happen when I had the Tom Tom Home programme running - because it used a lot of memory, everything else slowed right down.

Some programmes also take a while to load, where they didn't before. When I click on the AVG 8 icon in the taskbar it takes a good 30 seconds to load up.

As an example, the Sky News website loads half the page, then stalls for about 10 seconds, and then the rest of the page loads.

When scrolling with the mouse wheel, when I get to a picture, the page drags, but once past the picture, it scrolls at normal speed.

Hope that makes sense.

And also to add, I have the fasterfox add on set at turbo charged - not sure if that would slow it down. Still seems the same when I disable it.