explorer lagging

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Joe Johnson

Recently the computer I use has been having some really
bad troubles. It slowed down to the point wehere you could
double click a shortcut and then go make a sandwich and
get back just in time for the program to start opening. It
never used to be like that before. I got some anti-virus
software (Norton and McAfree)ran them. Its a good thing
that I did, I had some 30 odd viruses on my comp. I then
re-ran them to make sure that they got all the viruses.
The next thing that I did was to get spybot and adaware. I
ran those many times and got rid of all spyware. The I got
system mechanic and ran that to get rid of any junk files
and cookies, etc. The last and final thing that I did was
to defrag. It worked great, except for one thing, anything
to do with explorer is running very slow still. It takes
about 40 serconds for My computer to pop up. All the
opther programs run and open just fine. Is there anytyhing
I can do to get it going again? I'm at a complete loss. My
next step is to try either a reinstall of explorer (dont
know how though) or just do a complete reinstall of
windows. Thanks for any help you can give me.
-Joe Johnson
 
I would think your best bet with all of the virus and spyware problems would
be to reinstall a clean copy of Windows. You can never be sure you clear
all of the problems and entries this type of sofware makes.

There is no way to reinstall explorer by itself so I think the whole OS is
your best bet.

Thanks,

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