Need a boost after 5 months

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Hi folks,

I`ve got Vista Business running for almost half a year now, and am still
lovin` it.
But I did slow down a little in the last 2 weeks.

Did anyone make *positive experiences* with speed-up-tools for Vista so far?
You know the stuff, registry cleaners and all... :-)
 
Hi,
You know the stuff, registry cleaners and all... :-)
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Danger Danger Danger - don't go there. Registry cleaners do nothing for
system performance and may actually be detrimental. They frequently
misidentify and remove needed entries. Dead-end entries do not inhibit
performance and removing them serves no purpose, and some that appear to be
dead entries may not be such.

If your system has slowed down, check for spyware, look at recently
installed updates (from Windows, your antivirus provider, and your
antispyware vendor), and check for programs that have become unnecessarily
enabled in the startup axis.

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Do NOT use any registry cleaning tools. You can only have trouble from using any one of them

Install more RAM and use Disk Cleaner and defragment and take out unnecessary programs from Start Up using MSConfig

Do a search for *.tmp *.old *.bak and delete them. Delete the temp internet files,cookies,history . I do it daily

And in general remove programs that you have added that you do not use from add\remove. Less is more
 
Hi folks,

I`ve got Vista Business running for almost half a year now, and am still
lovin` it.
But I did slow down a little in the last 2 weeks.

Did anyone make *positive experiences* with speed-up-tools for Vista so
far?
Click to expand...


Stay away from so-called "speedup tools." Almost all of them are fake and at
least useless--sometimes dangerous.

You know the stuff, registry cleaners and all... :-)
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Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry
isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any
registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of
registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may
have.

The most likely problem is malware infection. What anti-virus and
anti-spyware software do you run, and are they kept up to date?
 
Do NOT use any registry cleaning tools. You can only have trouble
from using any one of them

Right!


Install more RAM
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It's highly unlikely that that's his problem (unless he's suddenly running
more demanding software), since the slowdown is a new occurrence

and use Disk Cleaner and defragment
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It certainly doesn't hurt to do those, but I doubt very much if they will
improve his performance.
and take out unnecessary programs from Start Up using MSConfig
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Again, it doesn't hurt, but programs that are installedbut not running don't
affect his performance.

Do a search for *.tmp *.old *.bak and delete them. Delete
the temp internet files,cookies,history . I do it daily
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Good to do, but gighly unlikely that his performance problem is realted to
these.

And in general remove programs that you have added
that you do not use from add\remove. Less is more
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Once again, I don't object to doing what you suggest, but it won't improve
performance.
 
Registry cleaners are certainly not going to increase the performance of
your machine; they are useless and cause more harm than good.

Check for spyware, Viruses etc to see if these are causing a general slow
down.


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roraniel you have the same regime as I do. I to use CCleaner, but don't use
the registry cleaner, even though it is less aggressive than other registry
cleaners.

The only change in my plan to yours is that I use Acronis True Image 2009
for backup purposes.

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John said:
Registry cleaners are certainly not going to increase the performance
of your machine; they are useless and cause more harm than good.

Check for spyware, Viruses etc to see if these are causing a general
slow down.
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Hey guys, thanks for the detailed responses.

I did check on startup applications, and there is nothing really that would
not be in use frequently.
Is defragmenting really a good thing? I mean: Yes, the thought behind is
good anyways, but since I made disappointing experiences back in Win98 times
I kept away from that.

I am running Vista Business with Avira Personal. Currently not running any
spyware detection.
What would you recommend? I have used Spybot S&D in the past. Is that still
appropriate for Vista?
 
magoo said:
Hey guys, thanks for the detailed responses.

I did check on startup applications, and there is nothing really that
would not be in use frequently.
Is defragmenting really a good thing? I mean: Yes, the thought behind is
good anyways, but since I made disappointing experiences back in Win98
times I kept away from that.

I am running Vista Business with Avira Personal. Currently not running any
spyware detection.
What would you recommend? I have used Spybot S&D in the past. Is that
still appropriate for Vista?
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Best around presently is Malwarebytes.. run it in safe mode first, then
again in normal mode..


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Best around presently is Malwarebytes.. run it in safe mode first,
then again in normal mode..
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I just installed Spybot, see what happens... :-)
Another question to the MVP: Would you recommend the Vista defrag
application? Or does it have to be a seperate tool? Or even no defrag at
all?
 
I'm inclined to agree with Mike Hall on the choice of spyware tools, i.e.,
Malwarebytes (www.malwarebytes.org). This, incidentally is a free
application.

Defragmenting is one of those 'must do' chores. I defrag my hard drive on a
weekly schedule, but depending upon how much you use your PC you can go for
monthly.

Vista's own defrag you don't actually see, because it works in the
background and unless you have physically stopped it doing its job then you
machine has actually been defragged on a pretty regular basis (assuming your
PC was turned on of course at the time the defragmenter is scheduled to run.
The default setting is 1am every Wednesday

Vista's defragmenter is a no frills defragmentation tool. For the average
user this is fine. Many MVPs prefer third party defragmenting tools such as
PerfectDisk or Diskeeper; I personally use PerfectDisk. Either of these
third party tools will defragment your hard drive far better than Vista's
own.


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magoo said:
I just installed Spybot, see what happens... :-)
Another question to the MVP: Would you recommend the Vista defrag
application? Or does it have to be a seperate tool? Or even no defrag at
all?
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SpyBot is not as good as Malwarebytes.

Re defrag, I use Diskeeper but in manual mode, i.e. I decide when defrag
happens..


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John said:
I'm inclined to agree with Mike Hall on the choice of spyware tools,
i.e., Malwarebytes (www.malwarebytes.org). This, incidentally is a
free application.

Defragmenting is one of those 'must do' chores. I defrag my hard
drive on a weekly schedule, but depending upon how much you use your
PC you can go for monthly.

Vista's defragmenter is a no frills defragmentation tool. For the
average user this is fine. Many MVPs prefer third party defragmenting
tools such as PerfectDisk or Diskeeper; I personally use PerfectDisk.
Either of these third party tools will defragment your hard drive far
better than Vista's own.
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I would like to ask one more thing about PerfectDisk:

As I downloaded and tried the demo I had to learn that it takes quite some
time.
Will the SMARTPlacement be done quicker the next time, or will it always
take about the same time?

Thanks for your participation! :-)
 
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