Computer Clean up

Rebel_Rouser · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: Computer Clean up

I was curious if anyone has some good programs they use to clean up their PC, ie: Spyware, adware, errors, registry problems, build up of files, anything to speed up your pc really.
I use Ad-aware, and Easy Cleaner

Easy Cleaner

Ad-Aware
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject:

SpyBot Search and Destroy

http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=2471&file=11&evp=2470f9bfb0cc682334ff8c4459556118
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Stevo · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:51 pm Post subject:

I have Ad-Aware, SpyBot S&D, and Norton SystemWorks that do all of that.
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject:

Find me in chat when I am not working, good luck. I have something you may want that will work wonders for ya

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Mike · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:

adaware SE, Spybot and norton anti virus 04
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s.Squirrel · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject:

ccleaner at ccleaner.com
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EvilGenius · Ville Supporter Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 394

There's a program called HijackThis that's great if you get errors at start-up such as "Cannot find blah-blah-blah.dll". Just run the program and delete the entry that ends in blah-blah-blah.dll.

If you're in need of a free antivirus try AVG free. And for a firewall ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm Personal is pretty good, I've heard. If you ever need to REMOVE a virus use "the russian hitman" as one friend of mine calls it, Kaspersky.

Edits: Found links and fixed name and link of AVG version.
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject:

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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:

EvilGenius · Ville Supporter Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 394

It means that you can use it to remove lots of stuff, but you have to know what it's doing. Personally, I use AdAware and SpyBot S&D for my semi-regular scans. When I come across the problem of "Hey, every time I load Windows on this ****ing machine I get a box about some file it can't find. Can you get rid of that?" (which I get often enough b/c I work for a HelpDesk at my school), I run "HijackThis" and match the name of the missing file to the entry in HJT that has that same name and delete. It's alot easier than scanning the registry myself.
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Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject:

Alright, if you need assistance with the HijackThis program, this is an Excellent tutorial, it tells you what each thing means, what it does, etc.

http://www.pchell.com/support/hijackthistutorial.shtml

also has other great tutorials, I recommend getting rid of Windows Messenger, if you haven't already.
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Speaker's Xeno · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

lets see what do i use

avg
ad-ware
spybot
registry mechanic
and i use firefox to keep all the adware and crap down
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Albino Gibbon · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject:

reformat/reinstall

heh
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McAfee Corp Edition
Diskeeper Pro
AdAware
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