clean up garbage

[Drenner]

A friend want's me to clean up all the garbage on his pc, as it has gotten very slow. The first thing I would do is dump all the temp internet files. What else should I do to help this process?

[juicelooser]

Run Ad-aware and/or Spybot. That should speed things up.

[tireman]

As juicelooser said, spybot, ad-aware, uninstall uneccessary programs, clear cookies, and defrag.

tireman

[Drenner]

Thanks. I'll do all of the above.

[scifiguy1]

are you familiar with the "misconfig" command in windows?
if yes then you know what to do, if not then you type in "msconfig" in the >start>run >command box and uncheck the programs that you do not want starting up with windows......at this point you should have a familiarity with the windows programs and make sure you know which ones you want to start up and which ones you do not....hope this helps

Dick

[Drenner]

Yes, I use msconfig quite often. It does eliminate a lot of unwanted programs on startup. Thanks

[DrZaius]

Like tireman mentioned, make sure to run defrag.

[glc]

Empty out c:\windows\temp too. Run scandisk before you defrag.