Hello. I have laptop Pentium III, 500Mhz. Memory 256. Video memory 8.

I have installed avg free and COMODO free firewall. Is there anythng else that is decent and hongs less resources?

Programs these days get bigger and bigger as they have a need to combat and seek out ever-increasing amounts of malware from the Internet. Therefore anything that is "light" probably isn't any good. Your laptop isn't particularly fast and so to that degree whatever you put on it anti-virus wise will slow it down.

BIGDOG-


MY machine is similar to yours (Celeron 600MHz), and I recently upgraded from192MB RAM to 512 and it made a BIG difference..(Also make sure your paging file is big enough),
UNfortunately, most PCs now only have two slots for RAM rather than four as in the olden days, so you can't simply(cheaply) ADD memory anymore, you have to Upgrade it... and old PC100 RAM is more expensive than DDR2 at the computer store! However, I got a good deal and paid only $60 US for 2 X 256MB (512MB total) and it was well worth the investment. Buying 2 x 512MB would have set me back $150, and given the price of new bargain-basement PCs, it wouldn't really be worth it...... but from a reputable seller on eBAY, this would surely be the way to go. My pagefile (HDD space used as virtual memory) runs about 1GB so the max RAM would be a great idea if the price were right, but I have no trouble running Firefox with a dozen add-ons, and a boatload of AV/AS apps..All the heavy number-crunching I do *at work* via online connect.
Older PCs can be made to work..

--SteveFAL

PS--Also, graphics take up a lot of processing, just wiggling the cursor makes my CPU usage jump from 25% to 60%,-try un-doing some of the superfluous Windows animation like shadows under windows, shadow under cursor, sliding menus and tooltips, etc. It made a small but noticeable improvement for me--(your mileage may vary)...
It's under start>settings>control panel>system>advanced>performance>settings

If for some reason, you can't get more RAM, uninstall AVG 8.0, which is rather resources hungry, and go for one of these:
- Avira free antivirus: http://www.free-av.com/en/download/index.html
- Avast! free antivirus: http://filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/

Comodo is an excellent firewall, but if resources are at stake, you may just stay with Windows firewall.

Ummm, just a little counterpoint...
I have never read anything positive about Windows firewall at this site, is that just because it only protects incoming and not outgoing or is it really all that porous? Of course anything is better than nothing, but
COMODO is pretty darn light at least according to task manager... I'm reading 5,240K right now and another 2024K for their "safe surf" module totaling a skosh over 7MB total; pretty minimal compared to the 100MB or so for a browser, and even compared to the 3 to 15 MB for each of the 7 Avast! modules (I only require 3 or 4)...Or does it (COMODO) get really resource-heavy when it's actively filtering stuff?
Task Manager is a great tool when using an older machine......

That's true. I use Comodo, as well. Try to get rid of AVG, and see what happens.

windows xp firewall - protects incoming and not outgoing

vista firewall - protects incoming and outgoing