Cable Connection but IE Lagging

Appreciate some assistance.

Trying to help someone with a cable ISP, but complaining that IE browser is awfully slow.

OS=WMe
CPU=AMD900MHz
RAM=128MB

Already ran Spybot S&D and AdAware to remove spyware, etc.

Also ran and removed undesirable entries from HijackThis!.

Repaired IE 6.0

Cleaned the caches in DOS (History, temporary internet files, cookies)

Used MSConfig to disable programs running at startup.

After all of the above, no progress, IE still lagging.

The fellow has the free version of Zone Alarm, and also Norton Antivirus running. Thinking about disabling Zone Alarm and see how that goes.

Have never used Zone Alarm (in any of its versions).

Q#1 How does one go about disabling the free version of ZA to see if this is the culprit?

Q#2 Any ideas of anything else one can try to see if the browsing experience becomes speedier?

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

Try running CoolWebShredder. AdAware and Spybot have trouble removing CoolWebSearch and it can cause browser slowdowns. (Download link's near the bottom of the page.)

 

Thanks for the reply, miz.

Will keep the info as reference for future consideration, however, there does not seem to be any evidence of CoolWebSearch or its variants residing on this PC.

Is CoolWebShredder something that is just run as a precautionary measure?