Getting Vista back to an 'as new' state

Richeh · 20 Sep 2008 at 14:03

Hey,
I've had my Vista install for almost a year now and have definately noticed its a bit more sluggish, am planning on doing a cleanup of the system but not a format.

Thinking I need to do an anti-virus sweep, defrag, spyware sweep etc, anything else I should do to try and get it running perfect again?

Its a E2180, 4GB Ram and 8800GT so my specs aren't a problem.

Cheers.

Bony Maloney · 20 Sep 2008 at 14:09

Get rid of all the "old" shadow copies from system restore if you have it enabled. Download crapcleaner: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ to remove all your old temp files.

Major_Disaster · 20 Sep 2008 at 14:46

Definitely run CCleaner. Have a look in Vista's performance information and tools?

ticktock · 20 Sep 2008 at 16:08

CCleaner is an awesome bit of software

Deleted member 77746 · 20 Sep 2008 at 16:49

ticktock said:
CCleaner is an awesome bit of software

Mobius 1 · 20 Sep 2008 at 17:06

ticktock said:
CCleaner is an awesome bit of software

i agree. they got new software out now for defragging called defraggler.

Greenlizard0 · 20 Sep 2008 at 17:13

The defragger's not as good as JK defrag + GUI/

Happy · 20 Sep 2008 at 18:11

Yep, CCleaner is very good, and I'm in the progress of trying out the defrag software.

swinnie · 20 Sep 2008 at 21:51

Happy said:
Yep, CCleaner is very good, and I'm in the progress of trying out the defrag software.

CCleaner Slim is better. A lot smaller, contains what you need, does what you need. Perfect.

I like Defraggler. But I am going to try JK Defrag and the GUI.