once chrome opens, it runs smoothly, but it takes 5 minutes to load up

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My desktop is old, windows xp, but there's not much on it. The processing speed is 1.98 GB of Ram, which I suspect could be my problem. I have fios, with a decent speed maybe 50. It takes forever for chrome to load but once it loads it works fine, or sometimes is very very slow
 
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Tom Tancredi

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Potentially maybe malware, but I REALLY doubt it. The problem by your own estimation is the computer itself is just too old / low power to meet the demands of NEW high tech (less then a GB of RAM? WOW that is old!) . Cheap easy solution; New Laptop or Desktop for 'general use' is only $249 @ Walmart (Recommend a i3) . Simple clean start and you will be amazed at the difference.
 
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dj1997

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this is not malware it is a cluttered hard drive
run disk cleanup (go to my computer right click local disk c check all the options for deleting temporary files)
that plus defrag the hard drive

 
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Tom Tancredi

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Actually MALWARE does cause the similar problem (slow loading of just Chrome or IE) <<BUT>> given the VERY LOW END of this machines, machines like this NORMALLY perform this badly and has NOTHING to do with a 'cluttered hard drive". Your 'jump' to such a answer is without any facts.

Having had machines EXACTLY LIKE THIS 10-15 years ago, that is TYPICAL speed expectations from such low old end machines. Nothing else can make it work 'better' then to actually address the problem, replace the hardware.
 
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the key is that once it starts it runs fine meaning loading time is the issue loading times are decided by hard disk performance
 
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