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Sounds like it could be spyware Quoll.
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
"Qu0ll" wrote:
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> Why is this? It's a Dell Precision laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bit
> and it started off being quite snappy when first installed and now it just
> gets slower and slower everyday. It starts up slower and programs are
> launched much more slowly than before.
>
> I defrag the disk(s) regularly and there are 4GB of RAM so what could be the
> reason? Yes, there are more programs installed and more disk space actually
> used over time but why should that slow down the whole machine?
>
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> And loving it,
>
> -Q
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