I have FSecure running for antivirus, it is supposed to be running daily. FSecure has antispyware, but it isn't the bet.

The pc is a PIII 550, so it is getting old.

As for the version of windows, it is a microsoft msdn version of winxpp.

I specifically set the IE cache to one MB and it will increase itself to 675Mb. (this just seems really odd to me.)

I am about ready to scratch the HDD and restore from my image backup.