Taking care of my baby

[Skype]

Hi guys,

So I recently decided to spring clean (yes, in October) my PC, hardware and software. I've cleaned out all its innards and it's sparkly clean.

However when it comes to maintenance, I'm not really knowledgeable.

I was thinking of just installing a fresh copy of windows but this would be far too much hassle, as moving my files and reinstalling everything would sap my already rare free-time.

What can I do to spruce up my PC? Would the windows standard DeFrag really make that much of a difference?

Thanks in advance,
Jon

 

[roban]

IMHO all you really need are 3 programs:

1.CCleaner
2.Auslogics Free Defrag
3.Malwarebytes

 

[billberry12]

+1 from me

 

[kevies99]

try ccleaner and slow pc fighter. also if it it slow at startup, goto start and typ in the search bar : ''msconfig'' (without quotes). then goto the tab startup and disable everything exept your anti-virus.

 

[Skype]

try ccleaner and slow pc fighter. also if it it slow at startup, goto start and typ in the search bar : ''msconfig'' (without quotes). then goto the tab startup and disable everything exept your anti-virus.

I assume by "disable everything" you mean untick things I don't want There's more than just my AV on that list that I need at startup. Although I appreciate you telling me this, I didn't know about it.

@ Roban: I now have all 3, thank you very much.