Re: Micro Cleanup scans, freezes.

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 11/18/05

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    Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:25:32 -0700

    Temp files come and go. If you have only 4 or 5 meg you
    must not be doing much with the system in way of browsing.

    I am not sure about the sluggishness and/or hang you mention,
    but 65 processes for a fresh boot is way too many for a base
    install of say XP (you did not state the OS involved).

    Try getting autoruns from www.sysinternals.com or a similar
    tool and see what all is configured to autostart on boot and/or
    on login and make sure you really do want everything loading.
    You may have one anti-malware wrestling with another if you
    have multiples running in the background. If you are sure the
    system is clean, try minimizing what is running and then with
    a system working as it should you could try adding back in
    what you really want and feel you need.

    "No Techie!" <No Techie!@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:6780452E-6DDA-4C8E-BBE7-71A8C6624D31@microsoft.com...
    > Discovered http://safety.live.com (Beta)
    >
    > Ran full scan, caught 2 virus, and 4 inf. files my program didn't, and got
    > rid of them. It found 4378.4 KB of Temp. files, cleaned them, but I have
    > run
    > the cleanup scan 18 times, one after the other, and keep getting various
    > KB
    > of Temp files! Do I keep running till I get zero? (It says it "cleans"
    > them, does that mean delete, I hope?)
    >
    > Like various other click on buttons, of late, I have to do Alt, Ctrl,
    > Delete, 1 or more times to wake up the "Cleanup" page link, then X of Task
    > Mgr. Now, suddenly, my key strokes are taking a long time to arrive
    > onscreen!
    >
    > Have Pen. 1.7, 512 mem., 7% full large HD, CPU with nothing open spikes to
    > 100%, and 67 processes shows with nothing open.
    >
    > I have maintained a firewall, virus scans, AdAware, Window Washer, System
    > Works, defragmentation, some "tools" files deletion, etc. Any comments
    > much
    > appreciated!

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