**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[Ace-a-Rue]

why don't you try Avast (Home-Free) from here...i am using it and i like it....give it a try...all you have to do is provide them with your name and email address where by they will send you a key good for 12 months...renewal only takes re-submitting an updated email address to get a subsequent key.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

slide down to the lower half of the page to download from their site for a faster download.

[Pntgrd]

Thanks for the suggestion but I may have (really this time) found the culprit. AVGfree has an adware module in it and I also had AdAware 2008 running. I uninstalled AA and since then, not a stutter in anything. Must have been working against each other when I browsed files or ran an installer and such. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I really want to stay with Vista (this time) but it is little things like this that build up and send me scampering back to XP, which is still installed on my Raptor. But the WD's in Raid will eat the Raptor alive in performance.

[edit]
I spoke too soon. It started hanging again right after I posted. Uninstalled AVGfree and they disappeared again and things are much snappier it would seem. Off to install Avast.