Hi folks,
What I did? I uninstalled a couple of CPU hogging programs and I launched a tool where I could tweak what started up (minimized that number of start-ups), and now I just run RUBotted, ImmunetProtect together with Avast, Secunia PSI and ZA. So my total mem consumption on this old XP SP3 is not higher than 60 % with streaming radio combined with GoogleChrome running a mere CPU 9%.
Also tested my CPU, see the picture attached.
What is true however is that modern browsers developed with Vista and Win7 capacity in mind are real CPU hogs, making an older OS going "on the top of its lungs", so to say. Anyway the processors have a hard time to keep up because any 32 bit won't deliver more as 4 GB,
what can a 512 K do there,
polonus