My PC, like everyone else's, has become bogged down. It's slow when I use it and it is slow while booting up. I run several spyware tools (no, not running in memory), I defrag regularly, I've used TweakUI to speed up my menu response, I've looked for nasty spyware using HijackThis, and I've tried analyzing my boot times with BootVis.)
Are there any good (not the spyware junk that comes up on google) free utilities out there that will analyze your system or speed it up in any way? I'm just tried to get closer to that freshly installed Windows feel without freshly installing Windows again.
2007-02-21 02:04:19 · 4 answers · asked by ed968 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Ad-Aware SE and/or Spybot Search and Destroy are great spyware programs that are free. RegScrubXP is great for cleaning out all of the unnecessary programs you have never used or the ones you have deleted(if you are running Windows XP).
As for your boot time, click on the Run icon in the Start menu and type msconfig.exe and click the Start-up tab in the window that pops up. Go through and uncheck all of programs that you don't need at start up (stay away from anything that says system32 or anything that you don't know what it is). Click Apply when you are done and it will ask you to reboot and you should notice a significant difference in boot time.
2007-02-21 02:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by hoes40 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started using the free " Google Web Accelerator ". What it does is speed up going from one page on a site to another, and from one sight to another, and it speeds up bringing up things you double click on , on your desk top. There will be a round icon appear on top or below a tool bar . It has a dial hand inside the circle that jumps when you click on something, and gives you how much time you are saving as you go , right beside the dial. In two weeks of use, it has saved me 57.2 minutes to what it would have been without it. That's nearly an hour saved of my time in 2 weeks. That soon adds up. Your system will likely try to say that downloading this may be risky, but my computer is clean after 2 wks, so I would say it's OK. I did a disk clean up too. That program comes with your Windows XP in your " All Programs " menu under Accessories & System tools, where your defragmenter is. This clean scans to see how much room you can gain on your C Drive by compressing some little used files, and in my case, I was stunned to see how much extra room was gained, thus an increase in over all speed in operations .Hope this helps you.
2007-02-21 02:32:43 · answer #2 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Advanced Windows Care. Chow
2007-02-21 02:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by Clipper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check your RAM and hard drive space, if either is low, get more.
2007-02-21 02:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋