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  Ventak on 08/07/2013 - 00:59

  I uninstalled ASC and all other iObit software awhile back…don't trust them anymore.

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  Ramrunner on 08/07/2013 - 07:51

  +1

  Look, most of those systemcare type software are a load of bollocks anyway.

  For the last 5 years or so I've had to explain to customers you DO NOT NEED THEM.

  The days of Norton utilities type stuff being useful died around the time when XP came in.

  Forget about that crap please - they only slow your computer down if anything.

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  Kempe on 08/07/2013 - 13:39

  Ramrunner is spot on, they are all snake oil, free or not I wouldnt use them.

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  Speckled Jim on 08/07/2013 - 14:18

  +1

  You guys are wrong I'm afraid!

  Auslogics Boost Speed. I've been using it for a year. No spyware, malware, browser hijacking, or system slowdown whatsoever.

  It has HD/registry defrag and repair, system cleanup, OS tweaks, browser tweaks, startup app and services control, connection optimiser and a nicely customisable adviser. You can choose what to act upon after a scan.

  Using it on three PCs. One I did last week saw a major improvement in general speed and responsiveness.

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    Ramrunner on 08/07/2013 - 14:46

    Good for you. I'm not saying keeping your temporary files under control, your startup apps, registry under control etc has NO effect on performance.

    Just saying the only PCs that have any real measurable gain are the ones that the end user clutters up themselves with those u-beaut little programs that get installed.

    Came from a customer the other day with 5 different toolbars and 12 other browser helper objects loaded, and a system tray with about 13 different pieces of what I like to call internet crapware loaded.

    Of course if I remove all those toolbars/BHO/programs out of add/remove, clean temp files, clean registry, as I did, I see a major improvement. With a HDD even a defrag will help after the clean up.

    My point is, you don't need crap on your PC to make it run good. You in fact want the opposite. Keep it clean, simple and stupid. THAT will give you the fastest performance.

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      Speckled Jim on 08/07/2013 - 20:49

      The topic was addressing Advanced System Care, a suite of utilities built into one program.
      The program I recommended is similar, and although lacking malware removal features it has a security adviser which is helpful.

      I'm not advocating the installation of many little resource-hogging apps that launch on startup. Boostspeed can run on startup if you want it to (I don't). In our case, we have one trusted security program and Boostspeed is run about once a week. I'd never trust internet security to such an "all in one" type of program, especially from a little known developer.

      I agree the clutter is a bad thing. Sometimes programs install with launch at startup and you're given no choice.
      You can just run msconfig and disable them but many people don't know this.

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  Splashtash on 09/07/2013 - 16:05

  Can anyone help me manage my computer by showing me a guide online somewhere so I can stop using programs like this? I mean even if you are tidy with your things arnt there certain software bits and pieces that gets left behind and over time laggs ur computer or something?

  P.S I just uninstalled Advanced SCare

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    Mikinoz on 09/07/2013 - 16:08

    -1

    reg cleaner

    http://regcleaner.com/

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    scrimshaw on 09/07/2013 - 17:10

    +1

    For the love of god, please don't do any 'reg cleaning'. Windows tens of thousands of reg entries. Cleaning up a few dozen or hundred of them won't even make a slight dent to the performance of a modern system. Every tech blog on the internet will tell you that reg cleaning is unncessary and causes more pain than it solves. Registry cleaning is not a maintainance task, more of one that only needs to be performed when a registry is actually malicious and harmful to your system.

    You want your computer to run fast — easy — install as little as as you can and keep it as vanilla as posssible. Got excess drivers for hardware that you no longer own? Uninstall them.
    If your boot times are getting too lengthy — consider an SSD upgrade or trim those startups using MSCONFIG.

    If you have Windows 8 — even easier — just use the Task Manager and click the "Start-ups" tab. It's super user friendly and it even tells you the impact of each startup item on your boot times.

    Don't install toolbars, always untick bloatware from software installs, never install humongous font packs (they increase Office and Photoshop loading times too). Know what software to install (read reviews) but open source software is always the best (they're well updated, run lean and fast, and best of all they include no bloatware)

    2 tools you do need to run on an occasional basis — MalwareBytes and Ccleaner. That's all you need. Also read http://lifehacker.com/5897138/how-to-speed-up-clean-up-and-r…

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      Ramrunner on 09/07/2013 - 19:27

      Nice work scrimshaw - dead on.

      And I also second an SSD upgrade. I had an old AMD machine X2 sitting here that was quite usable not bad at all, but my father in law wanted it and I suggested an SSD for it as an upgrade before he took it.

      It absolutely screams along now. Much faster than all the notebooks with newer i5 and i7 chips in them.

      Really the difference is chalk and cheese.

      My ultrabook has an SSD and boots windows in about 8 seconds from dead cold (no hybrid boot but after FULL shutdown).

      SSDs are awesome. So much so my company now puts them in PCs as standard.

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  Speckled Jim on 09/07/2013 - 18:23

  It's funny (or lucky, depending on perspective) I've been reg cleaning, reg defragging and dupe file cleaning for ten years without a hitch. Admittedly, it's only 10% optimisation at best.

  My two major downfalls where I had to reinstall windows were my own fault — for running "keygens".
  I had a HD fail without warning in a notebook. I'm told that may have been due to physical shock, and given when it happened that's quite likely.

  But the biggest performance gain, as scrimshaw said is disabling startup items and regularly (weekly) defragging your hard drive.

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    Ramrunner on 09/07/2013 - 19:32

    You're both right.

    I also routinely do registry cleaning, but it's truly more habit than anything. It makes bugger all difference on a HDD, none on an SSD, and it is true that a wrong move by one of these registry cleaners can render the machine useless.

    Never happened to me, but scrimshaw is 100% correct to advise against it. Just do a Google search and you will find plenty of cases where messing with the registry (even with some cleaners) screws up the PC right royally. As a technician it never bothered me as my machine gets backed up every night, and I can literally restore it in less then 15 minutes from scratch, but end users simply DO NOT back up, and if their registry gets screwed it often means a trip to a technician.

    Even though McMonte and myself have had no issues, like scrimshaw says - I'd rather advise against it.