HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW PC OR INFECTED PC. (a mini guide)

oliver0590

Thank you for posting this... I have worked through it and it has definitely helped.. A lot of great advice and an easy to follow guide!!

Cheers

Highgrove

Thanks OP for such a wonderful guide, my computer is much faster. Just one question, do you recommend re-installing Zone Alarms or should I just rely on the Windows Firewall?

spud17

Highgrove wrote: »

Just one question, do you recommend re-installing Zone Alarms or should I just rely on the Windows Firewall?

The consensus on here would be that you should stick with just the Windows firewall.
You'll be fine, especially if you are behind a router

hpuse

Speed of a computer is largely a perception of its users.
Most of us have access to at least 2 computers in our day to day life as we tend to use the newer computer/device, the older one naturally gets slower as we perform our day to day tasks.

Also, as the OP claims - it is not possible to bring a 10 year old PC to perform the same way as it was on day 1. That is a very naive 'software engineer' statement in my humble opinion (no offense please). Components inside a PC, especially the most important moving part – "the hard disk" and CMOS embedded devices naturally adds a latency factory to them over a period of constant use. So they do get slower.

Computer hardware components are engineered to perform however, incompatible modern software for the older generation of hardware also make it inadvertently run slow.

What OP is pointing out is, how we can optimise software and memory consumption from a resource point of view - very good point indeed.

Footie

Great info thanks - a full reboot did the trick!

katherine04

selina6 wrote: »

Well, there are so many free ways to speed up a slow PC, you can give them a try. Most of them are effective.
1) Remove Unwanted Programs.
2) Delete Any Clutter / Junk Files.
3) Clean Out The Registry.
4) Disable automatic startup of some programs.
5) Defragment your system.

Thanks for this! :j It really helped. I think my system was overloaded with unnecessary datas and files. Now it's working well. :T

j.smith1981

Ahh looks logical enough to me, but I mean I have never experienced Avast being any quicker or slower than Comodo depends entirely on your own setup though I think.

But all those steps look really logical to be honest.

I just need to clean out the actual physical computer itself too, I mean people believe that to have no effect on performance when actually it can do sometimes. To the point actually where my computer was starting to overheat usually then opening the side of the case to allow for a better circulation of air around the processor and motherboard.

Actually if you look at the way a processor works you will find one slows down as a result of restricted airflow when they heat up, after a while they start to you know why? The fine hair wires inside the processor is that fine it has a tendency to crack (some say melt actually it doesn't it cracks) and why you start getting blue screens if you have done too much damage to a processor a small amount doesn't tend to bother it but a large amount does.

Their so thin their about .5 micron of a millimetre your hair thickness is 1micron and a processors wire is even thinner in fact their that fine they can't get any thinner so that's why you get these dual core or even quad cores now, if you get them any thinner you are talking about atoms

a_sciortino

Thanks a lot!

GardenSun

I bought myself a netbook with 1 GB Ram and Intel Atom processor that came with Windows 7 starter.
It was SOOO SLOOOOW! Even opening a folder with picture took ages.

After two days I decided too parallel install Linux. I choose UBUNTU. It worked out of the box. Wlan. Bluetooth. Everything.

With Windows 7 with doing nothing 900 MB of 1000 MB Ram were filled with I dont know what. Linux just uses 250 MB, so 750 MB are free. Everything is real quick as I would expect it.

So, when your main uses of a computer are websurfing, grafics design (Ubuntu gives you GIMP what is as big and good as photoshop for free) and Office (Ubuntu gives you OpenOffice) than consider UBUNTU.

Even my girlfriend could install it. Its not more difficult than to install Windows. And when You install it, it will automatically keep your windows. After installation you can choose after starting which operating system you want to start each time.

Bossmanboost

murphydavid wrote: »

Didn't ever try Cleanmem but I presume it is a Memory Optimizer sounds like heavy going to set it up.
I use the Memory Optimizer from the Glary Utilities suite and it seems to work well because you can easily set it to monitor the memory and it only kicks in when it is needed (not at set time intervals). There is a free version but I don't know how well that works as I have the pro version. Give away of the day sometimes features it and you can get the pro version free when they do.
see Glarysoft.com and giveawayoftheday.com

Yea CC cleaner is a bit heavy, but not too bad. If you really need a light non-spammy registry cleaner I would suggest PC tuneup maestro. It runs pretty smoothly, and does the trick. Its important to keep your registry clean, specially if you have installed and uninstalled lots of programs in your computers lifetime.

Goodluck!