📎 AI Summary:
The thread discusses a slowdown in deleting browsing history and cookies on Windows 7 Ultimate, which now takes 10-15 minutes instead of 3. The users suggest various potential causes, including hardware age, dust, malware, or OS corruption, and recommend solutions like cleaning the system, upgrading hardware, or reinstalling Windows. Overall, the conversation aims to troubleshoot and resolve the increased cleanup time.
The thread discusses a slowdown in deleting browsing history and cookies on Windows 7 Ultimate, which now takes 10-15 minutes instead of 3. The users suggest various potential causes, including hardware age, dust, malware, or OS corruption, and recommend solutions like cleaning the system, upgrading hardware, or reinstalling Windows. Overall, the conversation aims to troubleshoot and resolve the increased cleanup time.
Solution
A lot of things could contribute to it taking longer.
- Age of computer and more specifically the hard drive
- Dust and dirt build up on the CPU / and heat sink can cause the CPU to throttle down
- If it's a spinning disk hard drive the fuller the drive is can cause additional seek latency to find and remove data
- Potential malware running on the system
- Corruption in the operating system
