JoeCanuck
General Section => Off Topic => Topic started by: dodge822 on October 14, 2009, 10:38:15 PM
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can anyone here help, i would like to get more speed out of my laptop, it is old, so their probably isnt much, if anything i can do.
it is:
toshiba satellite a30
intel celeron cpu 2.50ghz
2.50 ghz, 992 mb of ram (ddr 2x 512mb)
and a 40 gig hdd (i think)
and i waould also like to format the hdd again, but i dont want to do it from my xp cd again, as i am finding old pathways to files that should have been wiped when the format was originaly done, when my uncle gave my the laptop a year ago, so i guess i want to do a nice deep format.
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Start with this:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (http://www.malwarebytes.org/)
Take the free version.
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whats that do?
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And try this: http://www.ccleaner.com/ (http://http://www.ccleaner.com/)
I'm using it for about 1 year now. It removes all cookies (you can also create a white list for your cookies: Like JoeCanuck, so it won't delete your cache password), temp files, clean your registry, etc. It can also remove all Windows remove patch (every time you make a Windows update, Window also include a uninstall program to remove the patch. I saved 1.5 gig removing those uninstall patch!).
The registry cleaner is more efficient than my Norton Systems Works!
Oh, and it is free!
Let me know!
Martin
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whats that do?
I use this on a lot of our big name accounts (Lawyers, and the like). It will get rid of a lot of those hacks like "Anti-virus 2010" and cleans your malware. Sometimes you might need to run the scan externally on you HDD, meaning slave the infect HDD to a healthy PC and run malware bytes from there.
This will help speed up for PC if it has too much malware, etc...
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does anyone have a windows xp pro disk and code they dont need? i need to reinstall it on my computer, as wondows is now saying it wont pass validation, after 3 years,
it says my licence for windows is not genuine, but it came loaded on my computer.