Vista Pentium Dual Core CPU E5200 @2.50 GHz 2.40 GHz RAM: 2.00 GB HDD: 500 GB 32 Bit My nephew is only here at weekends and the problem is with me all week. Peter > > The usual scans are AntiVirus and Superantispyware and also CCleaner. > > > > Would something my nephew is doing on his pc effect mine when I am in the > >living room and he is in the kitchen? > > Yes, there is only so much bandwidth, and if he's doing something that' > s sucking it up, it could slow your access to the Net. > > > There is one thing I forgot to mention. I keep getting a popup telling me > > something about Firefox being low on memory. It hasn't popped up this > > morning but I had trouble just now logging back onto my webmail account to > > send this email. > > What are the specs on your system; CPU, memory, OS, and such?