Stuff for a work computer, speeding it up.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Anyone got any tools they can recommend to make it run faster. It's clogged to hell and short of reformatting it I don't think there's much that can be done, but wondered if anyone had any registry clean up tools that work well.

It takes an age to boot and is generally slow as hell.

The CD drive is toast so I can't really do a reformat, and I don't have an XP disk anyway.

O, and it needs to be free.

Thanks


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[Finglonga]

Have you tried CCleaner does everything including registry.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Great stuff.

I haven't tried anything yet, I just wanted ones that I knew would work well.

If I run enough through it, I may be able to get it to a usable speed.


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[tribal_tiger]

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Try looking at Portable Freeware for stuff.
I know they have a link to CCLeaner there, Secure Deletion section.
You might find some other goodies.

Place onto USB memory stick to run
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Thanks gents.
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[el_oso]

are you competent with computers?
try disabling some start up functions as you probably wont need most of these.
go start > run > and type "msconfig"
under the startup tab disable anything you do not need to start on startup.
if you are not sure what any of the startup items are google them or post here. to be honest you could probably turn off nearly all of them.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Reasonably, I'm doing a Computer Science degree, but it doesn't really transfer to the real world.

Thanks, I'll have a poke about.
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[c-2501]

Another +1 for CCleaner, its a great little program.

I would also recommend not using the windows defrag tool in favour of Auslogics Disk Defrag While would question the % speed increase they claim on the site it certainly does a much better job of disk defragmentation than the windows tool.

I would also recommend you avoid these speed up tools that claim to save you memory on the machine by freeing up ram. Generally I find they infact slow down the machine.

I cant remember if CCleaner does this or not but you might also want to clean out your windows prefetch folder (think its c:\windows\prefetch) Dont delete the actual folder, just the files inside it.
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[tykey]

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

displays loads of detail of what starts up automatically when your pc boots!

[chris-red]

Run MSCONFIG and go to boot and clear alot of the crap.
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