The title of your post made me think that maybe your mouse needs more coffee during the day... Sorry :mrgreen:

I was going to suggest Diskeeper (http://www.executive.com) for the reason that you can set it to run in the background. A little bit here, a little bit there! It just keeps it defragged.

You might also try some standard basic maintenance actions and see if that cleans it up. Here's a checklist:

-- Delete all temp files (c:\windows\temp\*.tmp, or on XP C:\Documents and...

Do you have a pop-up blocker? Try turning it off. (Obviously this wouldn't be the case for *all* links, but for any links going to pop-ups/new windows, this is a common problem.)

You also ought to try Diskeeper (http://www.executive.com) for WinXP. It's an excellent defragger.

Undelete (http://www.executive.com) has an Emergency Undelete feature which can recover deleted files. It runs from the CD-ROM, so you don't run the risk of overwriting the deleted files when you...