http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/what-applications-are-available-on-windows-rt/1589

What applications are available on Windows RT?
While the Surface RT does not support most Windows legacy applications, the desktop, with its multiple windows and taskbar, is still there, and, as well as Office 2013, there are a number of familiar Windows applications.
Notepad and Paint ? is that it ?

http://www.maximumpc.com/features?page=1

Dell Warned Microsoft Over Windows RT Branding, Claims Dell Executive
Dell had reservations about Microsoft using Windows branding for its ARM-friendly tablet OS

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/atom_powered_windows_8_tablets_delayed_due_driver_issue2012

Atom Powered Windows 8 Tablets Delayed Due to Driver Issue
The majority of Windows 8 tablets won't start shipping until 2013.
Wondering where all the Windows 8 tablets that were supposed to ship before the end of the year are hiding? It seems they've all been bitten by a driver bug, or at least the ones built around Intel's Atom Z2760 processor. The "Clover Trail" part is an energy efficient CPU that promises all-day battery life, but it's reportedly been challenging trying to code drivers that are stable enough to pass Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) testing.

http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/dell-hp-windows-8-atom-tablets-delayed-u/240145002

At this moment people are not ready for the Windows 8. so as a result Windows 8 is unable to capture users interest towards itself.

http://www.zdnet.com/a-very-slow-start-for-windows-8-7000008919/

A very slow start for Windows 8

Summary: There's no doubt about it--with Windows 8, Microsoft has a tough job on its hands.

Windows 8 has come along as an unknown entity, asking us to change the way we use our PC. No surprise then that at launch, the new OS had just 0.46 percent of the browser market and one month later, that had risen to just 1.31 percent. It's a hellishly slow start.

The figures come from Statcounter, which tracks user data from more than 3 million websites. The numbers are a telling indication of Microsoft's challenge in staying ahead in the race to give us the operating system of our dreams. Sure, they still hold 86 percent of the market, but that's quite a slide from the 95 percent of just four years ago.

If it helps, on the Processes tab in Task Mgr. you should see a breakdown of the CPU & RAM usage by process/app. Look to see what processes/apps are taking CPU while the game's running. Could be your AV software is examining/monitoring game files while the game's running, perhaps even taking up the majority of CPU resources -- it would make sense if the higher resource use happened at the same time your AV software decided the game might be malware. If so you might turn off real-time scanning/monitoring *temporarily*, or better, see if there was a way to exclude the game from the AV app.

Thanks, guys. Much appreciated.
(I'm Vista, not XP, but thanks anyway.)

The memory usage is basically similar to the figures I quoted above. It does seem unusually high for an arcade game, but then as I mentioned before it is quite a graphically intensive game. Some of my AAA games use as much memory when running, so the seemingly high figure is probably usual for this game. CPU usage also seems okay.

Try running programs like Game booster. Not sure whether it's free now. They did announce that they were going commercial recently, but whether it was the end of May or June I can't remember. There are alternatives but I've forgotten the name of the software. :(

on XP go righr click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Adjust for best Performance, or you can pick Custom and I only pick Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop.

While Farmscapes is running, CPU usage is between 10-18%, Memory at about 1.96GB. Right now, with only Firefox open, CPU usage is 2% with 1.68 Memory. The computer Hard Drive has 264GB Used Space with 317GB Free. The game is actually on an external hard drive - 330GB Used/134GB Free. I have been playing this game a few times a week since I got it. The "Warnings" have only cropped up recently. I dismiss them and can continue to play. I just don't understand why they started occurring.

(Hope you're feeling better WR)

Open up task manager (Ctrl Alt Delete) and then the processes tab. You can see how much RAM and CPU usage is being used by Farmscapes. I found it to be around 266 000 Kb which is ten times higer than other arcade games that I checked, though the graphics for that particular game were much better than the games I checked. Keep an eye on the memory usage and see if it rises as you continue to play. If it does it may mean there's a memory leak, which is usually due to poor programming. You can see CPU usage by clicking on the network tab. See what the performance is prior to starting the game then again while it is running; (without closing Task Manager)., you can then see the difference when you play the game.

I've never had a problem playing the game, but then I have 16GB of RAM on this particular computer, so rarely get problems related to lack of memory and my cpu has four 3.4GHz cores so again usually no problems.

Norton is notorious for giving warning. I'd ignore the warnings and continue to play the game.

I downloaded Farmscapes from Game Giveaway o/t Day a while ago and have been enjoying it. Recently I've started to receive warning alerts from Norton about excessive CPU usage and the game has been slow to load, though it seems to play all right once it gets started.

Nothing else has changed on my computer, and I have plenty of free memory.
Has anyone else had this happen. Is there something I could/should do about it?

Thanks for any suggestions. Best, LuckyKitty

Return Virtual System very slow on the web try to send to clipmarks & no go most times so take off now PC is OK I am on dial-up the old RVS was good & not slow me down.
how do you find RVS?

Tuning Firefox. Link.

If nothing works i would recommend IE7 it might work better :)

Firefox has been known to hog up all the free RAM you have. But if you have any ADD-Ons that you don't need, then it would be helpful to disable them, and then restart firefox.

Try firetune. Make sure firefox is closed whilst using this free tweaking utility.

http://www.totalidea.com/content/firetune/firetune-index.html

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question but I gave up trying to find a solution on the internet.

I am using firefox 2.0. My firefox browser is very slow. When I click on a browser tab it takes a few seconds before that tab is shown and I noticed that the memory and cpu jump up for firefox.exe during this time. CPU jumps to 100% and memory to something like 115,000K from 90,000K. Also firefox is always running with a minimum of 94,000K memory. Also opening web pages is very slow.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix this? Should I reinstall firefox again.