Slimline browser for a slow PC

[st00dent]

I'm looking after my moms house while shes away and she has an ancient laptop that grinds to a halt whenever you try and do more than 1 thing at a time.
Her IE is full of weird toolbars and other crap which I'm sure dont help so is there anything out there tha t will just work reasonably well?

It's a PIII 500Mhz with 64Mb RAM
running windoze 2k
cheers

 

[gurusan]

i'd say opera

Also do a spyware scan

 

[J.B]

opera is very streamline, the strange tool bars would suggest a bigger prob of spyware and lots of downloaded junk that will just slow the whole show down!

 

[Craig321]

I'm looking after my moms house while shes away and she has an ancient laptop that grinds to a halt whenever you try and do more than 1 thing at a time.
Her IE is full of weird toolbars and other crap which I'm sure dont help so is there anything out there tha t will just work reasonably well?

It's a PIII 500Mhz with 64Mb RAM
running windoze 2k
cheers

Ouch a 500mhz with 64mb RAM with spyware

Re-install Windows, I have a PC of that spec running Ubuntu at the moment, back when it ran XP it could do more than 1 program at a time.

 

[El Gringo]

Oi! Mah maachina is a stonking great K7 Athlon running at a blinding 499mhz. I have to admit it does get slow at times, but a quick threat to toss it out the window works wonders, I'm running Pro on it, always have msn open (oooh) use FF to browse and will play the occasional decade-old game. But the potential for a good comp which does most things (albeit slowly ) but play games and render is there.
Forgot to mention the mouthwatering 128mb RAM... Mmmmmmmm...

 

[Jonny69]

Adding another 128Mb RAM will solve all the problems on that laptop for about £10 on eBay, 64Mb will strangle the performance. Although it says it will run on 64Mb it's painfully slow.

Opera is quite lightweight but I think ultimately IE still opens faster.