I further reinstalled IE8 and did windows updates.
I delivered the box back to the front desk of
International students'office.

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Hi Maylmi
 
So far most PDFs that I download from through a
browser encounters problems when I open them, in
addition to my browsers running very slow. 
Somehow, even with one window open for IE, it uses
up almost a gigabyte of ram, and I can only open a
few windows or tabs before the browser starts
recovering and reloading pages.  And then pop ups
started appearing after ward, and everytime I
click on a link, it directs me somewhere else
unless I right click it to a different window or
tab.  It might have been something that got
downloaded into my computer when I was looking for
a .rar files reader, I don't know.  All I know is
that everytime I open IE and sometimes Firefox, it
gets slow, and possible y have many things running
in the background, coz the cpu monitor shows
nearly 100% processing on both core and almost a
constant 1 gig of ram being used. 
I hope this helps,
 
Ermie Buncal

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Hello Ermie,

Can you please let me know that when can i come
over and look into the opening and closing
pdfs/links issue?

Thank you,
Maylimi

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