GOOD ways to clean up and speed up Computer

[240ssx]

The past little while my computer has been extremly slow with not only the net but also loading and itunes. i do have a large amount of music but i cleaned out all the tracks i dont listen too and i did some drive clean up. i also went into the control panel and removed unnesssary programs. im looking for advice and ways to further clean up my computer and hard drive and memory as its getting slower and slower and its becoming a big pain. any ways to like do a full clean without deleting all my music??
thanks for any help

Brad

[DC2]

lavasoftusa.com download ad-aware personal se

run it. quarintine it. delete it.

[cityhunter2501]

Weekly I defrag my pc

And monthly I run the registry-checker in Easy Cleaner (followed by checking the startup settings).
http://personal.inet.fi/business/ton...e.htm#download
Lastly CCleaner, using both scans, registry and temp files.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Run a "Boot Time Optimization" with TuneXP 1.5.
http://www.download.com/TuneXP/3000-...-10290928.html

[Slashin_]

adware,spybot on download.com

[GQBalla]

defrag and adaware

[/////AMG]

Does defrag actually work?
I used Diskeeper and my computer is ALWAYS on "Warning - The overall health of volume C: is degraded".

Even after I reformatted my PC and I ran Diskeeper (before I installed anything and the hard driver was empty) it said the same thing.

I now sometimes get a 5 second freeze on my comp and the PC makes a high pitch beep sounds this repeats for about 30 seconds (the sounds is from something inside my case, not through my speakers). Only happens occasionally but its not normal.

[sweeks]

Format c:

As drastic as it is nothing beats a clean install.

[Grip172]

i use TuneUP utilities..very simple program it can defrag, clean or edit your registry and tons of other stuff. It can also be used to style your themes or whatever for you computer

i also run SpyBot, Spyware Blaster and Ad-Aware on my computer. I also use Ewido Anti-Virus (well it now becamse intergrated with AVG Virus Protection)

those programs are all free except for AVG

and it's best to defrag all your hard-drives on a regular basis...i do it weekly

[atomic]

http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-dow...regcleaner.exe

[hash]

get into msconfig and stop all the random unwanted apps from loading up in the background at startup. this is often the biggest cause for slowdowns (well... that and spyware).

[HiTempguy1]

I now sometimes get a 5 second freeze on my comp and the PC makes a high pitch beep sounds this repeats for about 30 seconds (the sounds is from something inside my case, not through my speakers). Only happens occasionally but its not normal.

I don't know what the freeze is coming from, but on my last comp I could go into the BIOS and tell the computer to beep at me with its little internal speaker if the temp of the CPU ever went over 140* F (I had it oc'd quite a bit). Cleaned the heat-sink with some compressed air lately? Your computer MIGHT be overheating.

[im2fst4u]

I use RegSeeker at least once a week. It will clean out your registry, history, cookies, old start menu files etc. It has tweaks for the OS. Very good registry cleaner. Never had one issue since I started using it 3 or so years ago.
Here is a link to their site: http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Hope this helps!

[toyboy88]

Originally posted by GQBalla
defrag and adaware

....best option!

[/////AMG]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


I don't know what the freeze is coming from, but on my last comp I could go into the BIOS and tell the computer to beep at me with its little internal speaker if the temp of the CPU ever went over 140* F (I had it oc'd quite a bit). Cleaned the heat-sink with some compressed air lately? Your computer MIGHT be overheating.

Actually I haven't, I have all fans on though, except the one that sucks air in from the side, which I don't think will make a difference?
Only reason I turned that off is because it noisy and collects so much damn dust.

[Nova316]

isnt adaware spyware itself?
I use spydoctor it seems to work much better

[Drew]

I would suggest buying a seperate external Hard drive for your music, transfer it off of your C: drive to your new drive, then defrag your computer....it should improve the performance quite abit