Disk clean

[Big Fella]

Guys,

My laptop is running slow and so I was wondering if anyone can advise of a decent disk-registry cleaner please?

I use Bullguard as anti-virus (which I'm happy with) and CCleaner-adaware to remove spyware but it still appears to have slowed right down.

Even better of the above is free!

Thanks in advance,

BF

[__LEE__]

Is your Laptop particulary slow at one thing or is it a general slowness?

Have you installed anything new lately or made any changes?

If you press control-alt-delete to see task manager can you identify a particular process that is taking up a lot of resources? (tip: you can sort the amount of memory usage or CPU usage by clicking on top of the column)

Has the Laptop slowed down gradually or did it just dramatically slow one day?

[Big Fella]

Hi Lee,

There is something called SVCHOST.EXE that is using alot. Are you or anybody else aware of what this is?

I haven't installed anything else other than trialling the new version of Bullguard (slowed down when I installed this but when turning this off, it's still as slow).

Regards,
Neil

[ThePassenger]

Big Fella said:

Hi Lee,

There is something called SVCHOST.EXE that is using alot. Are you or anybody else aware of what this is?

That's a component of Windows, although it can be extensivley borked by pretty much anything.
I'd double check the Bullguard forums to make sure that their isn't a special method for uninstalling, or utilities provided that tidy up afterwards.

If it all started when you installed that then I'm fairly confident that's the cause

However, running an Anti-Virus scan of your system (with latest updates) and a spyware sweep with both AdAware and SpyBot S & D (again with latest updates applied to both).
After that run msconfig and have a poke around the startup ideams and see if you can see anything that might be related to bullguard still be present, disable it and reboot.

[__LEE__]

What passenger said!

On a related note, I have heard some conflicting things about bullguard. What are people's opinion of them?

[tomo2006]

Big Fella said:

Guys,

My laptop is running slow and so I was wondering if anyone can advise of a decent disk-registry cleaner please?

I use Bullguard as anti-virus (which I'm happy with) and CCleaner-adaware to remove spyware but it still appears to have slowed right down.

Even better of the above is free!

Thanks in advance,

BF

I would recomend Advanced System Optimizer
www.systweak.com/

It is great and you get a free trial I'm an administrator and use it loads easy as pie

Phill

[neilmac]

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I would recomend Advanced System Optimizer
www.systweak.com/

It is great and you get a free trial I'm an administrator and use it loads easy as pie

Phill[/quote]

As a bit of a computer numpty I found these things a bit of a mystery...

I use a Toshiba laptop with XP Home, AVG CCleaner and Adaware and always wonder if some magic programme will speed everything up. So I tried the above recommendation and it seemed to find and correct all sorts of maladies. On restarting there seemed to be little or no difference to previous performance.

I then ran my usual cleanup programmes which got rid of 90mb of cr@p and 7 registry faults!

How does anyone know whether any such programme is actually doing any good?

Cheers,

Neil

[__LEE__]

These programs generally do some good but you will find they often pick up problems other applicatons have missed.

Performance wise, they tend not to increase performance much at all unless they stumble upon something that is causing a bottle neck. Most just clean crap out the registry and the like which increases performance slightly.

The Registry Mechanic application is probably one of the best.