Registry cleaners

[Munky]

My PC is going on three years old and is in desperate need of something to speed it up.

I'm after a programs that analyses all the things slowing it down and makes it go faster.

Are there any easy to use free ware programs out there?

[Lex]

msconfig + google for startup.

ccleaner for registry.

[sausage]

+1 for ccleaner

[^gR]

Get Hare. Hare is awesome

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

I just installed Soluto (http://www.soluto.com/) which gives you a visual representation of what programs you have running at startup, and allows you to easily remove them, or delay their startup to help your PC boot faster.

I'd be interested to see what everyone else thinks of it.

[TAT]

Run CCleaner in regular & Safe Mode

[^gR]

I just installed Soluto (http://www.soluto.com/) which gives you a visual representation of what programs you have running at startup, and allows you to easily remove them, or delay their startup to help your PC boot faster.

I'd be interested to see what everyone else thinks of it.


downloading now

[Silverwolf]

I just installed Soluto (http://www.soluto.com/) which gives you a visual representation of what programs you have running at startup, and allows you to easily remove them, or delay their startup to help your PC boot faster.

I'd be interested to see what everyone else thinks of it.

Sounds interesting, i'll try it later.

Windirstat does a similar thing but it gives you a picture of what exactly is taking up space on your hard drive, if you find you're running out of space and don't know why, Windirstat works super.

Freeing up space before you defragment is a good idea anyway.

[Munky]

I used Msconfig and CcCleaner and it has definately made the PC go faster.

Now I'm just going to double the RAM.

[^gR]

Sounds interesting, i'll try it later.

Windirstat does a similar thing but it gives you a picture of what exactly is taking up space on your hard drive, if you find you're running out of space and don't know why, Windirstat works super.

Freeing up space before you defragment is a good idea anyway.

Well I just downloaded this Soluto thing. It's pretty tard free, you install it, restart your comp and you launch it again and it puts your programs into 3 lists

1. No brainers (you should remove)
2. Potentially removeable (at your discretion whether you want them or not)
3. Un removeable (you cant touch them)

When you click on options 1 and 2, it lists all the programs, and gives you 3 options

1. Pause (this program won't run on startup anymore)
2. Delay (program will launch when your computer is idle)
3. Keep it (obviously keeps it in startup)


I took all of my 'no brainers' off, and about 3/4 of the 'potentially removeable' ones..and shaved a full minute off my startup time. So I went from 2mins 43 seconds to 1 minute 45 seconds.

Which is still massively, massively high, but my computer is ****ed and getting quite old..think i've had it for almost a 1.5-2 yrs now.

Good call Blake, seems like a decent program

edit: and it even gives you recommendations within its options, so if you aren't sure what the program does, or what to do, it shows you a pie graph of what the 'other users' did. So if it's something that 96% of people kept, you'd probably wanna think about keeping it (altho it said that for Skype and I still ****ed it off)

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

Glad you liked it.

[TAT]

After 3 years, I personally would consider backing up all my shit and reinstalling.

But that's just me.

[Silverwolf]

Well I just downloaded this Soluto thing. It's pretty tard free, you install it, restart your comp and you launch it again and it puts your programs into 3 lists

1. No brainers (you should remove)
2. Potentially removeable (at your discretion whether you want them or not)
3. Un removeable (you cant touch them)

When you click on options 1 and 2, it lists all the programs, and gives you 3 options

1. Pause (this program won't run on startup anymore)
2. Delay (program will launch when your computer is idle)
3. Keep it (obviously keeps it in startup)


I took all of my 'no brainers' off, and about 3/4 of the 'potentially removeable' ones..and shaved a full minute off my startup time. So I went from 2mins 43 seconds to 1 minute 45 seconds.

Which is still massively, massively high, but my computer is ****ed and getting quite old..think i've had it for almost a 1.5-2 yrs now.

Good call Blake, seems like a decent program

edit: and it even gives you recommendations within its options, so if you aren't sure what the program does, or what to do, it shows you a pie graph of what the 'other users' did. So if it's something that 96% of people kept, you'd probably wanna think about keeping it (altho it said that for Skype and I still ****ed it off)

Nifty, but its nothing I can't do in msconfig by the sounds of it.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

It doesn't require to you open msconfig!

Also it shows you how much time each item is adding to your boot.