Do these clean ups work?

Ok lets go with something simple. What make, speed is your 1Tb hard drive.

Could you separate data from OS, allowing the OS to be cloned onto a SSD (it is a disk based OS after all)
 
Cobra said:
I do wish some people would speak English :D


Cheers, that's pretty much how I do things, install and leave.
Not that I have installed anything in a long time, save the afore mentioned malwarebytes.


Not sure where that is?
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If you used the application programme:) regedit you see a tree structure which has corresponding names to this HKLM etc. Just follow the path down with the corresponding name and you'll come to the run parameter. In there you should see the value that it has and figure out what application programme:) it is trying to load at start up.
 
I have been using Avast for years but now get the same thing which is getting quite annoying with just how spammy it is. I have been tempted to pay up just in the hope it may stop all the constant notifications.
 
bass_junkie83 said:
I have been using Avast for years but now get the same thing which is getting quite annoying with just how spammy it is. I have been tempted to pay up just in the hope it may stop all the constant notifications.
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Or switch to a different anti virus checker that doesn't treat it's customers like that.

I'm very happy with ESET and it does fantastic hooks into email as well.
 
bass_junkie83 said:
I have been using Avast for years but now get the same thing which is getting quite annoying with just how spammy it is. I have been tempted to pay up just in the hope it may stop all the constant notifications.
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dejongj said:
Or switch to a different anti virus checker that doesn't treat it's customers like that.
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just turn on silent/gaming mode. no popups.
 
dejongj said:
Or switch to a different anti virus checker that doesn't treat it's customers like that.

I'm very happy with ESET and it does fantastic hooks into email as well.
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ESet is a very good, low profile AV product.
 
afasoas said:
I suspect they are programs which a running because of a registry entry under HK(LM|CU)\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
If you download and run SysInternal ProcessExplorer it might give a little more information about those running processes - http://live.sysinternal.com/procexp.exe

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer.aspx

Just hovering over the name of a running program shows a tooltip with the full command line of the running process. You may need to run it as an administrator to show all the details about all running processes.
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I could, but I suspect that it would mean nothing to me.

Byker28i said:
Ok lets go with something simple. What make, speed is your 1Tb hard drive.
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I think its a Maxtor 7200 ( speed is correct not sure about the make)
Byker28i said:
Could you separate data from OS, allowing the OS to be cloned onto a SSD (it is a disk based OS after all)
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Can we go back to the easy questions?

dejongj said:
If you used the application programme:) regedit you see a tree structure which has corresponding names to this HKLM etc. Just follow the path down with the corresponding name and you'll come to the run parameter. In there you should see the value that it has and figure out what application programme:) it is trying to load at start up.
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I'm totally lost now??

Well anyway my original question was answered, that these clean up things are a waste of time,
The rest is mostly Woooooooooooooosh over my head TBH.

I guess I'll just stick to running CC every week or so.

Thanks for all the input guys :thumbs:
 
Cobra said:
My computer is running a little slow these days ( W7)
i7 - 2600 @3.4Ghz
8Gb ram
64bit
1Tb HD is about 3/4 full.
I run the disc clean up and de-frag weekly.
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My desktop PC is the same specification (i7-2600k processor, which was a bargain in its day and still performs, and 8GB RAM) and therefore I suspect a similar age, though I have a smaller boot drive (still mechanical) and I took the W10 upgrade when it was available. Not slowing down. I don't clean up my disk, nor do I defragment it, because NTFS isn't FAT.

Chances are you've got spurious stuff loading at startup, as afasoas explained.

Going to an SSD will improve boot times and application start times, but it should still be fast even with a mechanical drive.
 
Cobra said:
I'm totally lost now??

Well anyway my original question was answered, that these clean up things are a waste of time,
The rest is mostly Woooooooooooooosh over my head TBH.

I guess I'll just stick to running CC every week or so.

Thanks for all the input guys (y)
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Hopefully this will help:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bnmu5d8Aa6w?vq=hd1080

I only looked at one key, but it looks to be the Adobe updater that is run at start up.
 
onomatopoeia said:
Chances are you've got spurious stuff loading at startup, as afasoas explained.
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There is nothing that I can see, just the 2 files mentioned above, besides I rarely turn it off, the last boot following the windows update took 4 minutes,
I'm really only talking about general sluggish / slowness in general use.
 
gramps said:
My schedule is a weekly CCleaner, Malwarebytes & Avast scan ... I don't think your £20 would buy you anything more than these can do. :)
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Just tried CCleaner and it worked wonders ....
 
Rather doubt the £20 will help much... I also use Avast pro. and they gave a trial period with all the add ons, which was a waste of time for me.
CP's just get overloaded with Junk at every level and eventually slow down. The only effective cure is to reformat and re load the operating system and everything from scratch.

I have that prospect right now ... not because my PC has slowed down, but because my windows 7 will not accept security or any other updates... I had Microsoft, on-line technicians, working on it remotely for four hours on Saturday and none of the three who tried could solve the problem. This seems to not be unusual since they stopped downloading windows 10 upgrades to everyone.

I tend to just put in a new hard disk, and reload everything. I put the old disk in a external case and transfer all my files, that I still want from it, at my leisure. Even then it usually amounts to a couple of days fiddling.
The result is always worth the effort and back to as new.
 
The fiddling is normally what causes the slow down in the first place :) You should be ok ...
 
dejongj said:
The fiddling is normally what causes the slow down in the first place :) You should be ok ...
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There is necessary fiddling to get the job done, and there is all other fiddling.
I never down load any thing new to my main pc before trying it on my second one first.. It has none of my files on it, and is easy to clean back to square one.

Since starting this policy my main one has kept its speed. and has no programs that I do not need or use. It is only the Microsoft enduced problem that has done me in.
So new disk is on the way.
 
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dejongj said:
The fiddling is normally what causes the slow down in the first place :) You should be ok ...
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I don't "fiddle as I aint got a clue WTF I'm doing with these things anyway :D
 
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