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More info?)
You might try one of the registry cleaner programs. Norton System Works
includes one. Registry First Aid is another. I have used both without
incident. Some of the freeware cleaners have been reported here by other
posters to cause harm. It is by no means clear that this would deal with
it, but someone here will have a better idea than me.
"Brad 4 Colin B" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Colin
>
> Sorry for the email, hae learnt and will reply to group
> from now on.
>
> I agree whole heartedly about Kazaa it was one that
> slipped in behind my back. As for your outlandish guess,
> that is exactly what I think may be happening, however
> have no idea on how to find the problem. Should I
> consider sending the hard drive to a costly expert to
> resolve or do you or anyone else have any tips.
>
> Brad
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Please do not email other posters unless requested.
> Replies should be to
>>the group so that other readers can benefit from and
> contribute to the
>>conversation. Kazaa is a good program for updating your
> viruses and
>>spyware. Not a good idea. One possible cause for
> slowness could be that
>>there is a program listed in a resgistry entry that is
> not on the computer
>>and the system is busy trying to resolve. Just an
> outlandish guess.
>>
>>"brad" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:049501c4abe9$e823da90$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>hi
>>>>running xp pro sp2, system extremly slow, reformatted
>>>>drive to remove clutter and still very slow. anyway of
>>>>finding conflict/s
>>>>.
>>>>
>>> Col
>>>
>>> thanks for the tip, have run defrag and clean up still
>>> the same, have sent email with further details.
>>>
>>> Brad
>>
>>
>>.
>>