Hi Curly
Are you using Internet Explorer to browse the internet, if you are try deleting your temporary internet files, which maybe clogging up your computer, to do this click on the following at the top of the page.
Tools, then from the drop down menu
internet options, the page which opens should be on the
general tab and then click on the
delete button, in the next window make sure the
temporary internet files box is ticked and if it is not to inconvenient tick all the other boxes as well to get rid of all the stored data and give your internet browser a fresh start, press the
delete button at the bottom of the window and it may take a while for your computer to delete the files if there are a lot of them, when the deleting process has finished, close your browser and then open it again and see if there is any improvement