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To: Ron who wrote (90487)	8/30/2015 4:32:39 PM
From: Ron	2 Recommendations Recommended By goldworldnet shadowman Respond to of 110626

I posted here earlier that Firefox and Thunderbird had issues on my laptop, both very slow to open, sometimes hanging and slowing down the system. Here's what I did: I ran Windows cleanup and set it to remove everything extraneous on the system including old windows install files no longer in use. This took quite awhile. I normally use ccleaner to clean up the hard drive, but the Windows cleanup went beyond that. Next I took a look at all the programs that were set to automatically run at startup and turned several of them off, including a couple of Adobe Photoshop related files and a Bonjour program from Apple which is associated with itunes. I had to search around in control panel to get this done but after a couple of hours, it seemed to help. The computer is not exactly speedy but Firefox and Thunderbird now open faster with no 'hangs'. Fingers crossed that this will do it. FYI