Ron Jeffries wrote: > Mostly the tools cleaned the registry and did some mumbo-jumbo about > removing file pointers that were bad. Nothing that looked like it > would obviously improve much of anything. The spy eraser found a few > things. the SpeedUpMyPC part cleaned up memory, whatever that means, > and "junk files" that "clutter up your system and reduce performance". An over-full temp folder can cause an application to slow down to nothing. Happens more often when the required temp file names are prefixed. > None of it was very interesting. The hard drive was NOT defragged > until later. After degfragging a bit, the tests run in 33 seconds the > first time and 15 the second. (This strikes me as odd also.) Why would that be odd? The 2nd time, it'd be in the cache? Best regards, Jari Williamsson