COMPUTER GURUS (Not you Villa)

[Zim Zum]

When I got my current PC about a year ago it was ultra fast but now it's a slow piece of shit. I'm not talking about current gaming just in general doing simple stuff like loading internet explorer, browsing folders on the desktop etc. The hard drive is fairly full and I have a 320gb external firewire drive attached that is also full.

Any suggestions for how I can speed it up again? I'd like to avoid a format as it's so much hassle, but what kind of things can I do that would work? Mostly I guess I have too many programs running in the background now.

[Villa]

I bet it's your registry.

[Zim Zum]

Probably, are there any free registry cleaners out there? I don't feel confident enough to mess around with it myself.

[Calix]

Presume you already have ccleaner?

[Calix]

ultra fast

Is that a technical term

[Benn]

de-fraggerize

[KoKane]

Yeah Defragment perhaps.
Shut it down properly if you ever turn it off

[Crest Lavender]

Defrag (best over night), most important the system-partition of the
internal drive, but also all Drives where you have stored game- and
other programm-code - because it needs to be reload fast.

Also: Windows need some fast accessable HD-Space on the System
Drive, not only for swapping but also to temporary store stuff if youre
operating a lot of Programms at the same time (Multitasking).
So your System Drive should have 200 MB to 1 GB free space on a
proper defragmented and fast system-harddrive.

Hope that helps.

Am not very familliar with the registry - i only optimize mine when the
bootup-procedure takes to long (thats because a lot stuff is loaded i dont
really need anymore - but i clean that manually mostly).

kind regards

Cresty

[Ingo]

Start button

Run

Msconfig

Go to the startup tab and uncheck anything you dont need, ituneshelper.exe etc. You should be able to find a list of essential startup processes on google.

That along with a defrag if you need it should sort you out.

[senji]

Start button

Run

Msconfig

Go to the startup tab and uncheck anything you dont need, ituneshelper.exe etc. You should be able to find a list of essential startup processes on google.

Thanks for this.

[Zim Zum]

Start button

Run

Msconfig

Go to the startup tab and uncheck anything you dont need, ituneshelper.exe etc. You should be able to find a list of essential startup processes on google.

That along with a defrag if you need it should sort you out.

Yeah that's a good tip Ingo but is there any way to stop Windows booting with a message when you do that? From memory it always says something about not using normal startup.

[Kristoff]

there is a tick box under it that says "dont show this message again"

[Zim Zum]

Ok just tried it and I forgot there was a dialog box with an option to not restart in diagnostic mode and that avoids the messages in future. Have to say I have already noticed the difference after that reboot. I googled all the startup processes I didnt recognise and realised half of them could be removed and now it's nice and fast.

I also downloaded a program last night called Eusing registry cleaner which was free. It deleted 600 redundant registry entries which made a noticeable difference too. On top of that I ran adaware and deleted loads of cookies etc, used Windows Disk Cleaner and killed a last few naughty cookies with spybot. It's all added up and suddenly my PC feels fast again.

I'll defrag overnight to finish it off.

THANKZ FOR THE HLP GUYZZZ

[senji]

It's all added up and suddenly my PC feels fast again.

But not ultra fast?

[Zim Zum]

Not quite. I shall have to re-install UO and test it with that.