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Old 01-02-2011, 08:36 AM
Charles Charles is offline
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Originally Posted by merrylander View Post
Mine booted so slowly this AM I thought there must be a virus or malware. Ran both the virus scanner and the malware scanner, found nowt. I did notice while it was scanning that there were a load of files in the Documants and Settings area under my name. Either Windows or other software does a lousy job of cleaning up behind itself. In the Local Settiungs/Temp were over 500 files that were left behind by variious programs. Cleaned out all that crap and all the cookies and it runs fine now.
CC Cleaner has a free program that does a good job of getting rid of all of those temp files. I wouldn't use the registery cleaner that comes with it though.

It takes it about 30 seconds to run.

Chas
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