Software to clean up PC

[longshanks]

My mates laptop needs a good old clean up as it is really slow!! He doesn't have any Restore discs etc for it as he lost them when he moved.

Can someone please recommend some good software that i can use to clean his system up totally? Be nice to get it running fast again!! Thanks

 

[DanMc07]

Tuneup utilities 2007 + some good defrag program such as Diskeeper?
Adaware 2007 and spybot search and destroy are also a good bet

 

[MarcLister]

CCleaner + RegSeeker.

 

[Thorien]

Adaware 2007 + CCleaner plus a good disk defrag should help

 

[Aero]

CCleaner = awesome

 

[basmic]

Run Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search & Destroy.

Uninstall any old/unused programs. Restart, run TuneUp Registry Cleaner. Clean out the C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME HERE>\Local Settings\Temp and C:\WINDOWS\Temp folders. Delete all folders beginning with % in C:\WINDOWS (just Windows Updates).

Run Diskeeper, and set to it to a bootup defragmentation. Restart, and after bootup defragementation run a proper defrag in Diskeeper. Then install and run Bootvis.

That should speed things up nicely.

 

[swinnie]

CCleaner, Spybot S & D, AdAware 2007, TuneUp Utilities, Windows Install Cleanup (really good)

 

[Craigius]

CC Cleaner

 

[Bony Maloney]

CC Cleaner

This.

 

[longshanks]

Thanks guys

 

[MarcLister]

CC Cleaner

BUt CC Cleaner doesn't exist. CCleaner however.

 

[bledd]

disable system restore, defrag, ccleaner, regseeker, windows defender (disable real-time scanning)

jv16 powertools is awesome too, be careful with it though

 

[Lydzor]

I just tend to use Adaware, JKDefrag and CCleaner.

 

[gillywibble]

Some good stuff here -

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

 

[Craigius]

BUt CC Cleaner doesn't exist. CCleaner however.

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