IE takes forever to load, cannot delete completely

[Danny]

I have tried to uninstall, reinstall, delete and retry over
and over... but the Internet Explorer folder is now in
lower case letters, and the connection wizard folder won't
delete, saying it's being used by another application.
Virus? Any way I can fix this? If I click on IE it takes a
good minute to load, then seems to work fine until I close
it. Reinstalling seems to do no good at all whatsoever. Any
help would be appreciated, thank you.

 

[oops!!]

Download Ad-Aware from here:
http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be
deleted at once ("in use").

Also excellent is SpyBot Search & Destroy available here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be
deleted at once ("in use").

Even if Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D are similar, they do clean different things.
You should have both of them and use REGULARLY.

You can also install "preventive" software that will help you control these
nasties:

SpywareBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Avoids malicious Active X installs.
Advantage: no system resources used!!!
Just download, install and UPDATE.

All of them extremely useful but you must keep them UPDATED.

Zee

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

Delete? You've tried to delete IE folders? Manually?

May I suggest a reformat.