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My personal experiances with the borg. I fix lots of computers. My method is if I don't use it, need it or want it it's gone. Holy Cr*p puter runs just fine then. I never have yet had a client come back to me and say hey what the **** did you do to my puter it runs like ****. Not once ever, it's never happened. Most people cannot believe the difference actually. Imagine 3 gig machines running at that speed on your projects only. Explorer jumping up to 100% starting applications I'd expect have to do with: Active desktop. You know turn your puter into the web so it's faster just incase you want to see a cool icon. History. Must remember all of that don't kown what for though. Memory managment remember all that stuff has to be dumped to disk to make room. Cookies so it can send you spam ads for paying competition. Spooling the operating system to a backup just incase. Collect and save data for next crash report to send off to redmond. Must check MSN see if the spam ads showed up yet. Get that eye candy running even though black and white would do. Finally get that poor Vue app running so the human can play. that's ok we the borg will run in the background making it difficult for the human to succeed. Get the idea? I found turning off reporting, forbiding active cr#p,removing IE or killing it. Mozilla is a real browser(free). Deleting Lookout. Turning off restore. Use CD to back up your data instead. Recover that wasted space. Tell it it's a network machine or hack it so it thinks it's a Nasa computer. Set the cpu priority to 1 for active app. That's a hard one for some. It says you know what your doing and you generally use 1 app at a time. You know you can have 50 running but the one in focus gets the processor if it needs it. Scan for spy ware and remove it. Oh and use that above link to find and disable (the one way up not this one on this message.) Find Micronots spyware and kill it. Spyware remove programs don't remove it. It has something to do with quality agent. Hey the price of this software it's should not be beta. Oh Did I forget, remove MSN. Oh for your information found a program MemMonster. Cool thing about it is it's task manager. Micronots reports 12 things running on this puter right now. MemMonster reports 16. Keep that in mind. Some thing they don't what you to know about are hidden. Good place to hide viruses and key loggers. Oh and close all those open ports on your puter so I can't render my pictures on your puter while your out and send Bill more spam mail. Move along folks ther is nothing here to see....