Who has the oldest computer?
 

"Portland" > wrote in message
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>I bought my Dell dimension 2400 desktop at the end of 2003. It was
> pretty fast. Now sometimes it's kind of slow. It slows down quite a
> bit during an ISP virus/spyware scan. It also really slows down
> whenever my ISP downloads new definitions. Whatever definitions
> means, I don't know. Something to do with system protection. I have
> 256 meg memory. I should probably upgrade to 1 Gig. I find that if I
> leave it running without turning it off for days on end, it starts to
> slow down. If I shut it off every night, it seems to work faster.

Jinxy. I thought mine was old. It's probably almost 6 years old.