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Posts: 169 · Joined: May 15, 2008 Location: Nederland Posts: 169

what programs do you use to improve speed and overall perforance of your PC?

I use:
-Tuneup Utilities 2008(drive defrag+more)
-RegCure(registry repair)
-CCleaner(also registry, frees up diskspace)
-AdAware 2007(removes spy- and adware)
-Bootvis(improves boot speed)
-Winsock Fix(fixes network problems)
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Posts: 15057 · Posted: May 25, 2008 10:21 am Post subject:

Disk cleaner
Disk Defragmenter
CCleaner
HP Health Check
Kaspersky Internet Security

All of these run weekly besides the monthly Disk Defragmenter. Anti-Virus helps keep it up to speed, viruses and other threats can easily slow your system down.

I HATE registry cleaners with a passion, only use the cleaning part of CCleaner. I do not trust any registry cleaners, plus the speed you get from them is not all that great, it is kind of a waist of time.
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Posts: 169 · Joined: May 15, 2008 Location: Nederland Posts: 169

well, after running RegCure and cleaning up over 800 registry errors, my pc was a lot faster. sow it does work, and i haven't had any ussues with regcure.

also, what's the health check and disk cleaner?

Oyeah, i forgot to add the conveniently named: xp_remove_hotfix_backup

it removes useless update backups, which can sometimes take up several GBs.
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Posts: 15057 · Posted: May 25, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

Health Check is a pre-installed program from HP that checks everything on your PC.
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Posts: 24748 · Posted: May 25, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject:

Disk Defragmenter is the best for xp i don't know about the rest you wrote there cause i don't wanna install optimization software
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Posts: 15057 · Posted: May 25, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject:

If you want my opinion, stay away from it unless you know what you are doing 100%!
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Posts: 24748 · Posted: May 25, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject:

No thanks
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What should i use to improve my speed for my XP?
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Posts: 15057 · Posted: May 25, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject:

go to Google and type in CCleaner, download it and run it, do NOT use the registry cleaner in CCleaner, only the part that clears the trash out.
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Posts: 169 · Joined: May 15, 2008 Location: Nederland Posts: 169

well, and if you DO want your registry cleaned up(which can improve your speed drastically), use RegCure. I've never had problems with it, it's easy, fast and it works.
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and if you do use registry cleaner in cccleaner then back up when the option comes up, so that if there is an error, you wont have to suffer.
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Posts: 7964 · Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Location: New York Posts: 7964

I use McAfee Enterprise and I manually go through and delete files and such to keep my computer fast and not laggy.
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Posts: 24748 · Posted: May 30, 2008 10:37 am Post subject:

dude the stuff that come macafee yucky
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Posts: 15057 · Posted: May 30, 2008 11:35 am Post subject:

McAfee Enterprise is the cooperate edition, always said to be better then there home protection packages.
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