Please help - weird files!

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My laptop has been running slow for a while but I always put it down to the number of pics I had stored. I have since transferred and deleted them but it is still slow.

Tonight I've been on a mission and I've found all these files in the 'windows' folder on my hard drive. What are they, there'e about 120 of them!

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Do I delete them? If these aren't the problem what else can I check to rectify my slow laptop. I must say that it is not slow loading internet pages or anything, just when it comes to saving files, particularly in Elements 5.

Any help gratefully received!
 
I would have thought temporary files but I thought they cleared themselves. The only thing I've done onthe laptop tonight is go online and hang out on TP, so where did these come from?
 
You have compressed your main folder that you are in.

Computer-Problem.jpg


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Follow that mate, i think that will solve your problem :thumbs:

Tony :thumbs:
 
P.S You may have to wait a little while after press "Apply" and "Ok" because it has to sort out all of your folders again :)

ADMIN - Can you leave this image above as it is until he has said he has read it please? then i will get red of it :)
 
Tony thanks for the advice, I'm at work at the moment but I'll try this when I get home later. You can take the image down now if you want, I've made a copy in case I forget :bonk:
 
Those are files from Windows updates, in case you wanted to roll back the changes they made etc. Those folders are created for service pack installations as well. It's absolutely nothing to panic about.

The performance drop is likely to be caused by something completely different.
Temp files are usually stored in two directories, one is system wide (C:\Windows\temp) and one is for each user (in user profile, e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Slapo\Local Settings\Temp). Sometimes more are created by some applications but they are often deleted by those programs again if they're of no further use.

For defragmenting, UltraDefrag has proved to be pretty good.

Otherwise you might want to check programs running in the background as well as for driver updates.
 
Slapo said:
Those are files from Windows updates, in case you wanted to roll back the changes they made etc. Those folders are created for service pack installations as well. It's absolutely nothing to panic about.
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Thanks for clearing this up for me, I did worry that I'd picked up some weird virus somewhere that just creates lots of strange folders!

So if I'm happy with my current windows updates can I delete them, or do you think its better to leave them there?
 
Alex S said:
Thanks for clearing this up for me, I did worry that I'd picked up some weird virus somewhere that just creates lots of strange folders!

So if I'm happy with my current windows updates can I delete them, or do you think its better to leave them there?
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If your computer is running normally, then you can delete thoes $NtUninstall{update name}$ directories, not the other ones, though.
 
I wouldnt worry about the compression thing either, its only the updates that are compressed. Adn yes you can delete the windows update files, just make sure you only delete those in that folder ! ;)

Defrag is always worth a look too, as if the drive is fragmented the OS is having to find contiguous blocks to write to, or spread the data about.
 
Yeah, Defrag is meant to be done once a month. So the "professionals" say, and mine needs doing like every 4 days to a week :)

Try doing a disk Clean-up" aswell mate, that always needs to be done from time to time :)

Tony
 
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