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