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cmorris
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Ok this is a free for all
What software/Tools would you recommend people use to speed up their computer.
I'd use C Cleaner, Disk De fragment, Disk Cleanup, Malware Bytes
What software/Tools would you recommend people use to speed up their computer.
I'd use C Cleaner, Disk De fragment, Disk Cleanup, Malware Bytes
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Manually going through and disabling all worthless Start-up programs and (non-MS) Services is essential. Same with Scheduled Tasks and Browser Toolbars and extensions.
Which an experienced, qualified, IT Technician such as cmorris should know all about, no?
OK ... keep as much as you can off the C drive .. all documents, photos, media files on D drive
Not me, but other people who don't know what they're doing - perhaps ccleaner should have a big box saying "fancy making a copy of anything about to be changed just in case you will f--- something up?"
and really you shouldn't forget the built in performance tools for seeing whats using up the resources
Like other posters I have reduced the Startup items (to 8 .exe progs) and I have disabled some processes in Services as well. I have disabled most of the fancy W7 graphics including Aero and have reduced the Index and Search functions.
I have a freeware tool installed called Quiet HDD which has significantly cut down the right click lag by controlling the APM (Advanced Power Management) and AAM (Advanced Acoustic Management) settings on the hard disk. Also I have disabled Screen Saver. I guess I could disable Hibernate as well, but I can't be bothered as the system is running pretty fast and cool and I'm happy with it the way it is.
I run CCleaner every time I go offline and I have another freeware utility, Clean Space 7.0 which clears out what CCleaner misses. I've had Clean Space since Windows ME but it works just as well on W7 64-bit.
Maybe messing about with the registry will speed things up a little , but you do need to know what you are doing
Get rid of any extra toolbars as they are not needed.
Reduce the number of add ons
Also if you can, prune your list of bookmarks / favourites web sites
As max99 said cut down the number of programmes on start up
Excessive number of bookmarks can slow things a bit mostly if you use internet explorer due to inefficient way it stores them -- matter less with other browsers in my experience & I leave the IE favourites folder empty --- have 1000's of links & no slow down.
Banished all addon toolbars years ago ... just waste space on screen
Isn't that french for fragmenting the disk? I wouldn't recommend that!
but for older machines replacement of windows with linux can make an amazing boost so long as the user can handle the changed operating system
Could anyone explain that? I'd have thought that 'favourites' was simply a folder structure which users accessed as required. Why would it slow anything down?
Could you explain that again to me, as to why it slows down?
What has being in a folder of 1000's of files got to do with anything?
Do you mean its seeking to load all the bookmarks?
And once started, they wouldn't have any effect on IE working, I assume?
Using the registry part of ccleaner i would avoid like the plaque like all registry cleaners can do more harm than good at minimum truncation and missng shortcuts and worse.
Using it to clean up your browser cache and history etc is ok.
Using the windows tools in general is the way to help ckeep your pc clean along with the advice from Max99.
Using third party tuneup and speed up my pc tools to be avoided as well as they do not do a good job similar to registry cleaners.
Hmm......time to find a nice cold wall and repeatedly bang head up on it until perhaps i can enjoy the same level of happiness as the OP
I'd advise people to get rid of the big virus that is Windows and get Linux.