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Thread ID: 25590 2002-10-07 12:24:00 why does my puter freeze for bout 20 secs when i delete things? sal (67) Press F1
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86875 2002-10-08 06:52:00 > 2. Have you defragged lately
> yep, bout 2 months ago (for the third time ever in
> about 3 years)

2 months ago is NOT lately! :D
loser (538)
86876 2002-10-08 06:55:00 try using cacheman... at the very least then you will be able to see how much of your ram gets sucked down when you do stuff.

deleting a few hundred files will slow anything down...
loser (538)
86877 2002-10-08 09:28:00 Do you use MS Office as it sounds like it might be FindFast which is causing the slow down. You can disable it in Control Panel. mikebartnz (21)
86878 2002-10-09 03:33:00 You could try installing Sisoft Sandra, the free standard edition and run the tune up wizard. It will tell you amongst other things, ( I think) whether your various cache settings need to be adjusted. In any case it is a useful utility to have. Terry Porritt (14)
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