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I hope someone here can help me?

I offered to take a look at my mates PC to see if I can fix it. He is running win98se with a Pentium 3 - 450 processor and 512 mb ram.

The problem is that it kept crashing and then would have trouble trying to boot it up again.

I have spent the last 8hrs giving it a good sort out, he had no firewall or virus protection. His start up list consisted of 30 plus entries, just under half of those were spyware, dialers and other nasties.

I have installed a firewall (zonealarm) a free anti virus package from Avast, Ad-aware & Spybot which found another hatful of entries in the registry.

My one remaining problem is the Windows temp folder it contains and I kid you not 52.000 files.
I have tried to do a select all and delete in both normal Windows and safe mode but each time explorer crashes meaning I have to reboot pc.

Looking at the web I came across one solution which is to add the following line to the autoexec.bat. †œDELTREE /y c:\windows\temp\*.* > NUL†

I have rebooted the pc, and so it has taken 5hrs and counting to complete itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s boot sequence, I know it's doing something as the hard drive is still grinding away beside me.

I going about it the right way or is there a quicker way of doing this?

Thanks for your time.