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Old 10-30-2012, 04:16 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions View Post
If you're running windows xp do a search for "defrag."

Windows Vista and Windows 7 defrag automatically but windows xp does not.
It may help some. Windows has security essentials, just use that as it's good enough to compete with the big antiviruses for most instances.
Trying the defrag, the computer seems to run fine. It's mail and surfing that's fucked.
Switching to another computer and might send this one to the shop.

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Originally Posted by grumpy View Post
find all *.tmp files on your computer and remove them. Next, disk / properties / scanchek
Got a ton of them, what are they?
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