In the end, after wasting too much time on it, I zapped the whole os drive and reinstalled everything. It was definitely a hitch with indexing...
Tony, I did a full scan today using Malwarebytes Antimalware and it found nothing, neither did my Kapsersky. Any recommendations for a cleaner...
Steve, Tony, none of those procedures have done the trick unfortunately. The error scan came back with no issues. I'm pretty sure now it was...
Steve, where is HKLM\System etc? Icons are fine and work fast as before. Access to disks and folders is all ok. It is only this one thing: "My...
Thanks Tony. (1) Delete all files and folders in C:\Windows\Temp: One file remains as it won't let me delete or rename it, saying it's being...
Hi Steve, and thanks! No, it's a standalone home PC ,with no mapped drives. XP Pro SP3. Control Panel/User Accounts I've just noticed also...
Last night something went wrong with my "My Computer" icon. When I ciick on it it now takes over 2 minutes to open up with the list of my drives,...
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