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Travelin2
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Jul 03, 2017

What do you do to maintain your PC

I notice that after spending some time researching an item to purchase by going to multiple different websites or spending time on some forum boards, that my computer will start running slower, having trouble opening pages or being hesitant and jerky when trying to type into a search bar. I have found that I can resolve some of these problems by running a disc cleaner and restarting. Its' not always perfect because the computer sometimes is slow to get going again. I'm not sure if I should click all the disc cleaner categories before I click delete or only delete what is checked automatically. I have found this helps by just stumbling around through all this new stuff and not from any real knowledge or training.

I was hoping others on here that are sharper than I could help us lower ranked users with your secrets of how you keep your computer humming along happily.

What do you do? How often do you do it? How does one figure out which programs that have mysteriously showed up on the program list can be uninstalled without problems?
  • There should be a check box on the windows disk cleaner to scan system files. Check it and run it. It will clean out old versions of files used to update the system. Run the defrag utility also. Get a copy of CCcleaner mentioned above and run the clean registry function. Over time Windows spends a lot of time chasing it tail before it bothers with what you want to do.
  • ReadyToGo wrote:
    If you are doing a lot of searching, I would change your search program. Google keeps track of what you search to put ads on your results which slows down internet browsing. CCLeaner is safe to use for deleting files (not programs). If you are actually getting unknown PROGRAMs on your system on a regular basis, something is wrong.
    Yes - it will do that, but only if you stay signed in. Sign out of Google when done reading your mail. Then get Firefox and use addons like Adblock Plus.
  • If you are doing a lot of searching, I would change your search program. Google keeps track of what you search to put ads on your results which slows down internet browsing. CCLeaner is safe to use for deleting files (not programs). If you are actually getting unknown PROGRAMs on your system on a regular basis, something is wrong.
  • I have a 15 year old computer geek grandson. That makes it easy for me. :)

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