deejrandom

Hola, I just registered with this forum and thought I'd ask for some general help.

My laptop is my main computer at the moment, since my desktop died an ignoble death. Until I can get a new motherboard/cpu/video card I am having to use this PC exclusively.

I'm noticing some issues with it and thought you might help me figure out where to start diganosing the problem.

First off the pc is a HP Pavillion ze5700. It has 960 megs of ram with a 2.9 celeron CPU. The video card is a Radeon IGP 345m, which is a card I'm not familiar with. I am the third owner of this PC, so I am not even sure if the hard drive has ever been wiped clean. I would rather not do that until I get my desktop working, so if anyone can help me I'd apperciate it.

My computer is running slow; I don't know if it is the ram or what: I'd be willing to buy more RAM if I knew it would help, heck and even get a bigger hard drive. But I know this is an older PC So I am not sure if that would even matter.

Oh and it is running Windows XP, service Pack 2.

When I'm connected to the net there seems to be lag. The lag is there regardless of what connection I have it on, be it a wired connection or wireless.

I've ran online virus scans and didn't come up with anything and I've also defragged the hard drive, but it has been a bit since I did that.

I mainly use this for webdesign (Using Photoshop CS2 and Dreamweaver 8, along with some coffeecup products) and writing (I have open office on here.)

I'd like to be able to play World of Warcraft on the pc as well.

I'm just not sure what to do; the final option, for me, is to wipe the hard drive and start over..but as I said I don't really want to.

I am not a new computer user but I am hardly an expert, probably know enough to hurt myself ;)

Please help?