My frozen carrot friend, I am using a program called McAfee that is supposed to take care of any spyware. I have used Spybot in the past but it has a conflict when running with McAfee. Not to be a wiseass, but what I don't understand is how you did a "clean" install of an upgrade. The only way to get Mapsource v 6.14.1 is by downloading an upgrade. You have to have the older version in order for the software to run in the first place. There is no way to just to load the new version. As far as rebuilding a system, I think that is an excellent idea that I am going to try on an older laptop I have. Thanks.
AJ
What was your base install? How many versions have you upgraded from already? I learned that you can get the most recent download and not required to install the older version first- you should have an account on the Garmin page and can get your key from there.
On an older laptop I have, I had upgraded from Version 5 or so from my older GPS (60CS), but this was the first install on this PC. So there are not 3 or 4 other versions of crap hanging in the system and mapsource/garmin folders. That is what I am referring to.
Also, I have found that Mcafee is not catching the spyware that Spydot does. Try MS Defender if you are having issues. I have run both against the same machine and found that Spybot had better definition files and knew to catch more. Your stuff is only as good as the last update also, so if you don't have new definition files, you are just scanning with old information. I am running DoD provided McAfee that is part of a suite, pretty sure it is the same as you can buy - but not definite. Since I use this to access USMC systems for Outlook Web Access and Marine On-Line I get to download these for free.
But again, I am running a duo core 1.5 with 2 gb of ram, Mapsource is set to high and it just smokes along - no issues.
You might want to bump your performance settings up, increase virtual memory/swap file settings to eek out some more performance.