IE8 opens a new process for every tab, I believe.
deleting duplicate files wouldn't help, since the registry is in two files- most of the data autoruns gets is in the registry. Deleting duplicate files would instantly hoop the machine, so the program probably didn't do that, it was probably just a cleaner program.
deleting duplicate files would hoop the machine because by default many windows files are stored in C:\windows\system32 as well as C:\windows\system32\dllcache. Deleting the files from dllcache won't make the computer unbootable, but it would be pretty dumb. Also, x64 systems double this up by making a syswow64 folder (that holds the 32-bit files) and the system32 folder holds the 64-bit files, there is a 64-bit shell32.dll as well as a 32-bit shell32.dll, for example.
So, you've got (on a x64 machine) C:\windows\system32\shell32.dll, C:\windows\system32\dllcache\shell32.dll, C:\windows\syswow64\shell32.dll, C:\windows\syswow64\dllcache\shell32.dll.
How would a "duplicate file remover" know which one to delete? It wouldn't. Also the IOBit duplicate file remover was
terrible the fact that you managed to escape unscatched is nothing short of miraculous. the thing is practically a Rube Goldberg add-on for your computer.
http://forums.iobit.com/showthread.php?t=2694It does not see the same file with different extensions as a cloned/duplicate file
But two .doc's with the same name but in different locations is seen as cloned/duplicate files - even if the content is quite different - at least as long as it KB-wise is the same size, - haven't tried with radically different sizes, but have tried with different number of characters in the files.
Which basically amounts to, if I have two huge dissertations as word documents that are nearly the same size, it will recognize them as "duplicates"! Wha? How does that make sense? What definition of "duplicate" did they base their program on?
