[stylishjm]

Thanks for your replies.
Firstly I have 2GB of Ram installed and this seemed fine when i first had the computer and it had all the initial pre install programs from dell - everything was working at full speed! Ive also disabled all the visual effects under the perfomance tab in the system properties section and have increased the virtual memory to 5GB if that helps.

As for the programs I got the Adobe from my friend but did infact get the Fl Studio from a bit torrent site (but scanned it first and installed it on an external drive). The AVG was downloaded as a trial version from grisoft.com and then i paid for it just to make sure i get the full benefits of it.

As my computer was an replacement from one that got stolen from my house it came delivered with Vista Business preinstalled for some reason but as I have said for the first year that ive had it it has been running perfectly. I dont know if this is relevant or not but the computer came bundled with programs which where not compatible with vista and at the time my laptop (with nearly the same specs) was still only being sold in shops under the XP OS.

Thanks
James