Steve,
Your hard drive probably has some old junk and maybe some corrupted files. If you can save your information to another drive and have the disks, I would suggest that you format the hard drive and reload it. That will get rid of everything that may be floating around in there. As for the I.E. errors, I get them with the newer versions once in a while especially when I get in a hurry and don't let something finish before I start something else.
Another thing you could try is going to run and type in msconfig and then open the start up page and see what you are loading at start up. Anything that you don't need uncheck so it doesn't load. You can always start those programs from the start menu if you need them. Also go to the running processes and see what and how many are running all the time. I have an old laptop here that Warren gave me with Windows 95 and after I got all of the turtle droppings cleaned off of it, the thing runs quite well.
Ron
