In my control panel, user accounts, there is no windows assistant, maybe I got rid of it using that clean up too.
I can't delete the million windows the way you're telling me.
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the only other thing I can think of is to update to Explorer 8
you can get it from here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
let me know what you do and if it helped
gringo