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Hey peepz
Mypc is about 5 years old now and has a lot of crap on it i think and stuff running in the background. Im not to pc savy so i was wondering if there is any sogtware out there to help boost my pc and get rid of the crap i dont need. Im running windows 10. There are loads of software but you have to pay for all them ideally i want a free software. Downloaded one today called safeguard claimed to be free but when you try to remove the threats it asks for payment so i deleted it. I already have malware bytes but looking for something to boost pc.
 
ccleaner will help you get rid of alot of files and old temp files you dont see, but really if you have loads of software installed that you no longer need, goto control panel and uninstall a program, then right click on whatever you dont want and uninstall it all.
 
First thing I'd do is check how much space is left on the C: drive, especially if it's a mechanical HDD. If it's shows a red bar in "This PC" (previously Windows Explorer), then it has less than 10% capacity remaining. For me, mechanical drives become noticeably slower once they hit approx 50% capacity (others see it sooner, some later); but at 10% remaining, everyone will notice how slow their system is.

IMHO, nothing is going to beat a fresh install though.
 
Generally those apps that are supposed to make your computer faster don't work. Little_pob is right: nothing beats a clean installation.

+1 on CCleaner, but you also want to go into its options and disable starting with windows as well as the 2 monitoring options. I'd also disable auto updates because those options tend to install services that start with Windows.

CCleaner also has a panel for uninstalling other applications. It even lets you get rid of some things that Windows itself (particularly 8 and up) hide the uninstallation option for.

Try the Disk Cleanup, and then run it a second time and hit the system files button. You can usually clear a lot of old windows updates installers from here. If you updated windows versions, this panel lets you delete the 5-20 GB of the old installation that's kept around in the Windows.old folder.

If you don't use hibernate, disable it for more hard drive space, usually equal to your RAM size. (Google how, it's easy).

Defraggler is a very good defragmenter. Just don't use it on an SSD. Allow it to replace the Windows defragmenter when given that option in the installer.

Also, get an SSD? Prices are really coming down. You can usually get them on sale year round. Right now I see a bunch of 80-120 GB for around $40. I never filled half of my 120, so that's a cheap upgrade that makes a huge difference. Windows will also boot 5 to 20x faster.

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Blkviper also has a list of Windows services to disable to streamline everything, but if you aren't especially savvy, I'd pas on that. You could bork things.
 
thanks guyz I have ran CC cleaner & malware bytes, see how things go. I got 400GB left on my 1TB HDD, think it's time to upgrade hard drive. I was looking into Seagate ST2000DX001 3.5" SSHD 2TB SATA to get a litter faster boot up then standard HDD without breaking the bank. Is moving OS over to a new hard drive is easy task?
 
You could also try a disk clean up, followed by a defrag.

Don't believe the marketing hype on the SSHD. Having used one myself, I found the speed increase for boot is negligible.

Honestly a fresh install on a 60, 64, 120 or 128GB SSD is the way to go. You can add a 2TB mechanical to that if you want.
 
Easily the best thing you could do is have your OS on a dedicated SSD and files on a HDD, the boot up speeds alone are amazing, and in terms of performance to value its the king of all upgrades!

In terms of moving your OS to new storage, its an easy task if you have the OS disk and drivers for your computer, I would 100% recommend a new install if you buy new storage.
 
Easily the best thing you could do is have your OS on a dedicated SSD and files on a HDD, the boot up speeds alone are amazing, and in terms of performance to value its the king of all upgrades!

In terms of moving your OS to new storage, its an easy task if you have the OS disk and drivers for your computer, I would 100% recommend a new install if you buy new storage.

Does a SSD only make a noticeable difference to the boot or does it speed up general use as well?
 
Well it depends what you have on the SSD, my PC is currently running two SSDs, one for the OS and Programs, and one for Steam and my PC Games. I can tell a major difference in games as I am always the first to load up on multiplayer games.

The way to look at it is this, the SSD has a much much higher read and write rate than a HDD and this allows your PC to read information more quickly.

Things will load so much faster, then the next thing you look at is your RAM if you're still looking to upgrade after an SSD, people tend to look at size of RAM and overlook the speed of it. I would use a program called CPU-Z to identify your motherboard and google what RAM it takes. If it is DDR3 then you'll be able to pick up a cheap pair of RAM sticks, installation is easy too.
 
Thanks for that. CPU-Z tells me I have 16gb of DDR3 ram. In general use my PC is fairly snappy but it writes to the disk much more than it should and that seems to hold things up occasionally. It's a 2TB Seagate which is about 60% full. I also have a couple of smaller backup disks as well but those are just saved to manually so it's not these writing all the time. I'm not quite ready yet but I'm thinking SSD when I next upgrade hardware.
 
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