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It turns out that my vintage did not ship with the DSR. I didn't use disk management, but used the cd instead. Oh, yes...
i'm not sure what you're using to look at the parbreastions, but the other 2 are hidden. you will only see a "C" if you use disk management, then you can see the other 2. if it's really not there, then you did something else to remove them. the install from the cd does not do that.
i do remember the other thread. i responded saying the file that was repeating in the startup was AOL.
the slowness also looks like a rootkit. (hidden undetectable nasties)
the thread turned to registry cleaners -- those will not help you there. ------ actually now i'm a little confused.
you said in your previous post this thread that you "reparbreastionsed and reinstalled". and you still have the slowness problem?? did you do a FULL format or a quick format? you must do a full format.
if you did and that is still slow, then guess what, your hard drive is going bad, and needs to be replaced. it wouldnt surprise me because its gotta be 3 years old.
then you said: "It then ran like new, again."
so is the problem solved? what are you really saying?
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