[quote=moneymaker]I was using google Chrome because I heard it had the lowest overhead, then it quit working so I’m back to IE9 on Vista. I do have a newer laptop that had windows 7 on it when the video hardware crashed so I could put that in. Just found a bunch of video games my son installed on this laptop years ago, so I’m in the process of getting rid of them, if that doesn’t do it I’ll put that other/newer hard drive in (I like windows 7 better than vista anyway).
Computer is running much better now with 20% free space on disk, think I’ll still swap out the hard drive to go back to windows 7, that way I can use a 32G thumb drive as a readyboost device to bring my memory access time down.[/quote]

15% free space might be low depending on the amount of RAM and the size of the disk.
Windows Vista is not good. Letting kids install games is worse.
Win7 is not likely to work when you swap the HDD for your Windows Vista HDD – you need device drivers and the license is tied to your original hardware.
You can try debugging using IE developer tools (press F12) or 3rd party tool like Fiddler, but it is unlikely that amount of data is causing the issue.