PC Clean Up

[GHA EFM]

Any [free] suggestions to clean up the PC, techy people (Laz et al) ? Should I be looking pretty much solely at virus scans?

[Laz]

There's a clean up tool to remove all the temporary files etc. You could have thousands of temporary Internet files. It'll be under: Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools then run Disk Clean Up.

 

Remove any unwanted software that you have installed. Go to Start, Control Panel, "Add/Remove Programs".

 

When you've done that, try downloading RegClean. Run the app: it gets rid of unwanted stuff that the system remembers.

[SteveP]

It's never a bad idea to defragment the disk, delete any temporary internet files, that's on options. Not a bad idea to clear the cookies from the system either.

 

I had to start afresh after a crash about 3 months back, when I started back up again the running speed was great!

[Rob_the_Saint]

Backup and delete as many files as possible, especially big ones like photos, and don't forget to empty the recycle bin before the defrag.

[GHA EFM]

Done the usual defrag and clean up stuff, will try add/remove and regclean (is it free?) ? Deleted a load of files manually a few weeks back, kept on seeing a prompt saying that I'd deleted some vital (not necessarily vital) Windows files, and needed to insert my Windows disk again. We don't have one. Was thinking of a complete system restore reboot restart thingy, wiping everything, but that would take days and probably cause more hassle than it'll solve. Also, cheap iBooks on the web...?

 

Thanks for the help.

[CANV EFM]

buy an imac

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Buy a small korean boy with an IQ of 200 to deal with all your correspondence!

[GHA EFM]

EFMTFTV, that would be retroactive. CANV, an iMac would be more than nice, but seeing as I'm leaving for uni again in a bit, it wouldn't help the rest of 'em. Hence the iBook idea...

[CANV EFM]

all computers are [****!!****].. they take up more time than writing millions of zeros and ones on miles of paper and working it out yourself

[Electric ~soul~]

Isn't iMac now called Veet anyway?

 

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[CANV EFM]

you cant say that in pubic C.Z.

[Electric ~soul~]

Nice!

[Gesundheit]

Get Ad-aware, and Spybot. They monitor for advertising cookies and the like. If you haven't got a firewall, Zone Alarm will do the job free of charge. They're all available easily on the web. Just Google for them.