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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on January 19, 2020, 12:50:34 AM
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My computer has been running awfully slowly of late. I've run multiple scans with both Avast and Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes found a few pieces of tracking software but no dangerous viruses, and they've been eliminated. Didn't make much difference.
Two night ago I used CCleaner to scan the registry. Among the issues it found wee eight unused file extensions associated with GoogleDrive. I clicked "Fix," which should have deleted those entries from the register. Performance greatly improved. This evening I ran CCleaner again, and those entries popped up again. So I removed them again.
But where did they come from? I don't have GoogleDrive -- never have. I use Dropbox, and I have a Microsoft Onedrive account that I almost never use. So why does my registry keep getting entries for unused file extensions associated with GoogleDrive -- and why would those be making the computer run abysmally slowly?
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Unused file extensions shouldn't really make any difference. ??? Check your task manager; see what's running in the background. (maybe a dozen extra copies of Chrome)
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Don't have Chrome on my computer.
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What Bob said. If this is the same computer that you posted about recently regarding a slowdown, sounds like you need to do a wipe and clean reinstall, or else, and better, get the Samsung SSD and then install fresh on that.
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SSD arrived a couple of days ago. I'll install it after I get back from the SHOT Show.