Win7 Explorer - Slower than ever?

karlsnooks said:

Incidentally, you are now using Win 7 and do not need all of those wonderful tools, aids, speeder-uppers, cleaners that you used before.

Win 7 comes with very effective tools.

all of those wonderful old-faithful standbys are now your enemy. Annihilate them.

Actually, none of them were necessary before either. They're all a bunch of snake oil.

I thank you all greatly for your thoughts. I formerly had Ad-Aware running realtime and didn't catch it (running in the hidden taskbar icon area); it seems to be the default setup and I was installing so much stuff on my new PC that I didn't notice it. It made me so mad that I uninstalled it! Based on what you guys have said, I think I'll be using Spybot very sparingly, if at all.

I also had Carbonite setup to do online backup all day long, but have changed that to only late at night now that it's caught up with me.

As for the Reg Cleaners, I ALWAYS preview what they're going to change or delete and unless I understand it, I don't let them proceed. I do know my way around the registry and it's amazing how much junk is left around when you uninstall. And I'm often trying new software.

I DO have a lot of HD space and files to fill it. I have 2.5TB in 2 drives inside and an external 2TB. The 2 interior drives are indexed. Since the external is mostly backup and CD/DVD images, I don't index it.

And I have used CCleaner for many years.

Thanks again. I think it's getting better.

Thank you, karlsnooks!
Just did what you requested with CCleaner and nearly died at how I've not been attending to my startup processes. Found lots and lots of junk. I'll attach that (where you'll see a lot of disables but not my several deletes) as soon as I can finish some clean up. Then my installs. Thanks again.