i have a dell 120l laptop with a 60gb hardrive, when i instal a few programs or have a few running it will go really slow and i mean really slow is there anything i can buy or do to fix this?

upgrading memory is allways a good start

Remove Norton and macaffee security suite if they are installed. They often come pre-installed and better less power hungry programs are available for free.

what sort of memory? and what best

200 Pin SO DIMM DDR2 PC2-4200 533MHz for your Dell Latitude 120L

Cost you about a tenner online for extra 1GB :thumbsup:

and because its cheap max it out
use crucial scanner to check what it can take
http://www.crucial.com/uk/systemscanner/

Adding ram will almost always improve a laptop, however, if your laptop is very slow then there may be software problems associated with either viruses or malware. So it would be a good to scan for these first. Also, sometimes a faulty hard drive will result is a slow laptop, so run scan disk as well just incase. If all else fails or you want the ram installed then contact http://www.trilogicuk.co.uk for laptop repair help and advice.