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Thanks, adding the WINNT\Temp folder was the missing link. I guess cCleaner didn't see this as a Windows temp folder?! And thanks to all for you support.

No I'm not doing any downloads, but as Outlook is opened, it does do it's own thing in pulling in email. And the Antivirus is also on. So I'll try turning it off before cleaning from now on. I just did one and found that with Outlook and Antivirus off, the scan takes under 3 minutes. So I think I can live with that... One other thing though, I've noticed that my HP software continues to create those files (lots of log files) in the WINNT\Temp folder and cCleaner doesn't delete them. Which is probably why it accumulated to over 30,000 little log files over time. Other than remembering to manually deleting them on my own, is there any reason why cCleaner isn't deleting these files in the temp folder? Thanks for all your help...

Last night, I deleted about 30,000 little files in my WINNT\Temp folder. These were all about 1kb in size and created by my HP software just like the posters you found in the HP forum. After I deleted them, I defragged and turned off the computer. This morning, the folder is still empty, but cCleaner still takes about a lot longer than it should for analyzing an almost completely clean computer. As you can see by the screen shot, it took almost 6 minutes to analyze. So although fixing the HP problem helped, I think there is still something wrong with my installation. Any thoughts?

Thanks Hazelnut, I am indeed using a HP printer and it could very well be the same problem. In fact I have a home set up that is very similar to the one you found. I'll try the fixes that the users in that HP forum tried and hopefully it will also fix my cCleaner problem Thanks again...

Pressing the Analyze button takes almost 20 minutes to complete. It gets stuck (or just slows down) in my C:\winnt\temp\ folder and seems to be taking forever to go through HPSLP... log files. Running cCleaner after the analysis is very fast. About 60 seconds. This happens every time I run cCleaner. (But not immediately after the computer has been cleaned) Using Windows XP SP3. I've attached a screen shot after the analysis was complete. Any ideas?