is this normal

[Redleg]

My 2 cent but I know for a fact Sword and Redleg will agree.

Yup..

Direct link to AVG download:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

And ZoneAlarm firewall, if you need/want that one as well:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

Both are free..

how do i find out how much memory i have?

Open the Control Panel in windows, and click on "system"
It should say how much memory you have near the bottom of the first page there.

 

[rotc boy]

1.99 GHz 256 RAM

 

[Italian Guy]

Mmm let's wait for the big minds to come back. We're gonna work this out, Boy

 

[WarMachine]

go into ctrl + alt + del and see how many running processes you have under the processes tab and tell us.