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richmelvin

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  1. Thats great, thank you for that, worth a go! Any thoughts on re-setting my PC to a particular point in time, i.e before I ran Disk Clean, CCleaner etc? Seems like a great idea but not sure if its known to be successful or not? Thanks - Rich
  2. hey guys, having a bit of a nightmare with this. Basically it seems it cant be done! The link below explains in the ins and outs but ultimately I cant see how to get it done. Might be time for a new PC..nervous breakdown approaching...!
  3. Hey Ken, hope you didnt have to pay postage on the book! Please excuse my uselessness here but Im not sure how to check on the auto delete of cookies, I know its set to auto delete history if that helps? Thanks, again!
  4. Hi Ken, thank you for replying, I see your on the Wirral, Im in Ellesmere Port, weird! I will give the re-install a go, will I lose my Favourites? (I have a lot!) Also, a side effect of all my tinkering seems to be that no website 'Remembers me' any longer, if i hit the first letter of my Username or Password and it will populate but Im usually kept looged in all the time, on Facebook for example. Any thoughts on that at all? Many thanks Rich
  5. Hey all, as the title suggests my IE (vrsn 8) is very much prone to freezing/crashing/extreme slowness. I have however seen improvements since I ran the following steps on Sunday (21.07.13). However its still bad and I would be most grateful for any advice you folks can offer. Ran Malwarebytes (vrsn 1.75) Ran Spybot search & Destroy (Vrsn 1.6.2) Ran Security Essentials Virus Check Ran Defrag Ran Disk Check Installed and ran CCleaner Deleted Temp Int files, cookies etc. Deleted plenty of files releasing 3gb in space I have a net speed of 5.6mb and have 23.9GB of free disk space (130GB used). I use Windows XP on a desktop PC from DELL which is about 10 years old. I use Security Essentials as my Firewall and Anti Virus. Only thing that came up from the above steps was Spybot found an entry named "Fraud.Codec.x3" which it stated it couldnt immediately delete as it was in use, a message Ive never had from Spybot before. It removed the threat upon next start up. Their website offers the following description 'Fraud.Codec.x3 is a malware that pretends to be a revolutionary media codec. This fake codec is made to transport advertising only. It is completely useless'. Ive also 'unticked' a handful of processes from running at startup. Checked them out on processlibrary first and they seemed uneccessary (hopefully). Any help or advice that could be offered will be most gratefully received. Many thanks Rich
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