As far as Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware I use Avast Anti-Virus (<---FREE) for my AV and I use Webroot Spysweeper for spyware.  Both of these seem to do a very good job.  I uninstall and reinstall spysweeper whenever I need to run a sweep.  It seems to cause BF2 to slow down even with it turned off.  That was on my old desktop with only 2GB of slower ram.  Maybe I will run some test for myself to see how BF2 acts with spysweeper installed and running and then with it installed and shut off and then with it uninstalled.
     
I am also running Vista on a laptop and had no problems with 2GB of ram, as far as normal use.  When it came to gaming I would get a little lag after a few minutes into a round of BF2, but it would go away after about 3-4 minutes.  I upgraded to 4GB of ram and my lag during BF2 is gone.

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