Clearing StartUp folder or re-install XP

From: DanielArtToby (DanielArtToby_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05


Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:47:05 -0800

My computer was running really slow so we decided to add more memory, this
didn't help as we were told that we needed to clear the startup folder as
this was too large and would solve the problem, if it didn't then we were
told we needed to re-install XP as all the files were fragmented. We have
run de-frag which hasn't really helped much. How do we clear the start up
folder, what effect will this have and do we really need to re-install xp



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