iv been having allot of problems ever since i first downloaded maya (ple Version 7)

mainly to do with the speed. sometimes it might work ok for a while but then things start to slow down and it can take several seconds to perform simple actions like moving objects or resizing a viewport. this is in a scene with just a nurbs sphere and a plane with a reference picture on.

recently an error message is coming up saying runtime error and some problem with C++ then maya closes.

im running windows xp intel core2duo at 1.86ghz (*2) and 2gb ddr2 ram.

any ideas??

thanks allot