Posts Tagged ‘anti-virus’

Four awesome tools to recover your slow PC

When I get a clients pc I usually do these four things to start the software fix:

CCleaner v2.22

CCleaner v2.22.968
- Redesign of Cleaner results panel.
- Added support for Opera 10 Beta.
- Added support for Safari 4.0.
- Added search to Uninstall tool.
- Added search to Cookies screen.
- Improved User assist cleaning in Windows 7.
- Fixed bug in OpenOffice cleaning.
- Fixed IE8 SuggestedSites.dat cleaning support.
- Fixed UI bugs.

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Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

Have you ever considered what makes an anti-malware application effective? We at Malwarebytes have created an easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application. Whether you know it or not your computer is always at risk of becoming infected with viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware, and malware that are constantly evolving and becoming harder to detect and remove. Only the most sophisticated anti-malware techniques can detect and remove these malicious programs from your computer.

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msconfig

Then I put in the run box msconfig and look for startup items to remove

AVG free

I then check their anti-virus protection, if it is needed, I put on AVG free

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9 times out of ten these four things get the pc working great again