How do i Keep my computer Clean, Safe and Fast

[Richie]

Hey guys,

Recently my computor is getting slow and i dont know why i have tried disk def and disk cleanup any other tips?

Any other tips on how to keep my laptop clean, safe and fast.

Also if it helps i have Free AVG, if anyone can solve the problem of my computer being slow il like in love with you hehe.



Thanks,
Darkenemy.

[Laggings]

-Yawn, ok, here it goes.

First off, you'll want to delete your internet files, temps, caches.
You can do this by going into Start > Control Panel > Internet Options, and deleting them from there. You can also download ATF cleaner, which does an amazing job cleaning off the files you really don't. Last, but not least, is CC cleaner. It will clean your registry files aswell, which will make your computer faster.

Next would be getting a good antivirus program(s). Free: Avira Antivirus (AntiVirus) + Online Armor (Firewall) + Bluecoat K9 (Parental Control). Yeah, you're like PARENTAL CONTROL? You can choose what to block, like known sites that have malware and spyware. I use it mostly for that, and it works amazingly.

Other programs would be (Free):
SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard
Spybot - Search and Destroy
SUPERantiSpyware
Ad-Aware
a-squared

Most say Spy(something), and will catch a hell of a lot of known virus' and other things you don't want on your computer.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Edit: 500th post! :D

[Richie]

You can also download ATF cleaner, which does an amazing job cleaning off the files you really don't. Last, but not least, is CC cleaner. It will clean your registry files aswell, which will make your computer faster.



Where can i get both of these?

[Arron]

Where can i get both of these?

I'm supposing Google.

[Laggings]

Yeah, google it :D

[parky1306]

For a start, never have more than 1 firewall or Anti-Virus on your computer. Maybe 1 anti-virus and also a malware / junk cleaner, but never more than one anti-virus on your computer as it will slow it down majorly.

Also when you start up your computer, i reccoment starting task manager up and then ending processes that are running that you dont need e.g. windows side bar, adobe speed launcher, etc, simple things like that.

I reccomend AVG for anti-virus.
Good Firewall e.g. ZoneAlarm (NOT windows, its not as good as you think it is)
HijackThis to remove any unwanted process on start up. If you DL and install HijackThis, then post your scan log / mail it to me and il tell you what unwanted processes you can remove which will help speed up your PC

Also, another thing to help it run smoother,

1. Open Notepad
2. Type in it "MYSTRING=(80000000)" <Without the "" marks
3. Save the file to your desktop as "MEMORY.VBE" < Without the "" marks
4. Youl now notice a script icon on your desktop. Double click it and itl help boost ur RAM

[paul4wolves]

why not back all your files up and reinstall os.
Then your computer will be as fast as it can!

[Laggings]

For a start, never have more than 1 firewall or Anti-Virus on your computer. Maybe 1 anti-virus and also a malware / junk cleaner, but never more than one anti-virus on your computer as it will slow it down majorly.

Also when you start up your computer, i reccoment starting task manager up and then ending processes that are running that you dont need e.g. windows side bar, adobe speed launcher, etc, simple things like that.

I reccomend AVG for anti-virus.
Good Firewall e.g. ZoneAlarm (NOT windows, its not as good as you think it is)
HijackThis to remove any unwanted process on start up. If you DL and install HijackThis, then post your scan log / mail it to me and il tell you what unwanted processes you can remove which will help speed up your PC

Also, another thing to help it run smoother,

1. Open Notepad
2. Type in it "MYSTRING=(80000000)" <Without the "" marks
3. Save the file to your desktop as "MEMORY.VBE" < Without the "" marks
4. Youl now notice a script icon on your desktop. Double click it and itl help boost ur RAM

I could hack AVG within 2 minutes. And you can have 10000 AV programs on your computer. Aslong as only 1 is running real time.

[parky1306]

you cant 'Hack' AVG tbh. unless you work for grisoft and know the source inside out, which i doubt it. and why would you have all the bases of loads of anti virus programs on your computer? its just plain stupid. you only need one, and good security expert could tell you that

[Laggings]

you cant 'Hack' AVG tbh. unless you work for grisoft and know the source inside out, which i doubt it. and why would you have all the bases of loads of anti virus programs on your computer? its just plain stupid. you only need one, and good security expert could tell you that

Seeing as I am the Tech Security Admin at work, I think I know a bit more than you. Each program finds stuff that the other one could miss. It's called extra security. And do you know how many times the source code for AVG has been posted on underground forums? You could google it but you'd never find it. The AVG server that has the source code on it has so many open ports that a script kiddy could get into it. You can have as many programs on your computer as you want, it just depends on how much security you want. Lots of times 1 AV program will find a virus, and the other won't. Sometimes it takes time for 1 program to put out an update.

[redtom]

More than one antivirus does slow you computer, and you don't really need more than one antivirus program anyway, just as long as it’s somewhat good, unless that is you download a hell of allot of stuff from very unsafe sources, but still any half decent antivirus would pick up any threatening viruses, so the need for more than one on your average personal computer is highly unneeded.

[Laggings]

More than one antivirus does slow you computer, and you don't really need more than one antivirus program anyway, just as long as it’s somewhat good, unless that is you download a hell of allot of stuff from very unsafe sources, but still any half decent antivirus would pick up any threatening viruses, so the need for more than one on your average personal computer is highly unneeded.

If you have 50 antivirus programs, they won't slow down your computer. If you have more than 1 antivirus running in realtime, it will. See the difference? :D

[parky1306]

If you have 50 then your stupid tbh. No ones thinking your hard with your paragraphs and your bragging that you have 50 AV programs on your computer. Why would anyone waist all that HD space? they wouldnt .. unless their ******ed

And AVG wouldnt leave open ports in their server for 'script kiddies' to inject. It would take a lot more than a script kiddie to get in AVG, and even then, it would take agesssss.

AVG does the job, we dont download random crap like you, therefore we dont need 50 AV programs.

End of

[Laggings]

If you have 50 then your stupid tbh. No ones thinking your hard with your paragraphs and your bragging that you have 50 AV programs on your computer. Why would anyone waist all that HD space? they wouldnt .. unless their ******ed

And AVG wouldnt leave open ports in their server for 'script kiddies' to inject. It would take a lot more than a script kiddie to get in AVG, and even then, it would take agesssss.

AVG does the job, we dont download random crap like you, therefore we dont need 50 AV programs.

End of

Does it look like I'm bragging about my AV programs? I have a good 12/15 at the most. He asked how to keep his computer clean and fast, and I gave him an answer. You come in and start typing mindless crap about stuff you don't know about, and I have to clarify it for him so he doesn't mess his computer up. Just because I can type paragraphs you get mad at me? Sad :(

A normal Hard Drive has around 70gb, I've seen some around 100gb. All my AV programs combined take around 1gb. It's not wasting any space. You don't know the first thing about AVG security tbh. You don't go injecting when you find an open port in their server. Go read a nice little google tutorial on hacking servers, then come back and post about what you don't know.

And as stated before, I have 12 AV programs because my company deals with highly secure information, and if any of it was leaked into the public, it could be sold for a great deal of money and we could be sued. I don't go around downloading porn and mindless crap like you do.

But as stated before, you can pick and choose what AV's you want on your computer. Mine was just a suggestion list.

End of.

[parky1306]

As stated before? You never said before how many you had . . .

Who said i go around downloading random shiz? not me ... obviously i dont, im not as dumb as you

List what AV's you have then ...

Mine was a suggestion too, but obviously as you say, AVG is shiz,(so shiz that the government reccomend it to people) ... oh okay then.

And you must be like how old? 25? Older?

[Kevin]

1:
Get a decent anti virus/ anti spyware:

Top Two
Avast (Free)
Eset (Paid)

2: Get a Firewall:

Comodo Firewall ( Free )
Not going to list a paid one, as comodo is pretty much as good as it gets.

3:
Keep them updated, every single day new malicious code is created, to stay safe make sure it's updated to the latest version, if it isint in some cases you're better off without.

4: Common sence

Dont download stupid things, only download what you need and know is trusted, if somone trys to send you something stupid on msn like "Hey, I Found a pic of you, Sends file "kodak_picture13.zip".

[Laggings]

As stated before? You never said before how many you had . . .

Who said i go around downloading random shiz? not me ... obviously i dont, im not as dumb as you

List what AV's you have then ...

Mine was a suggestion too, but obviously as you say, AVG is shiz,(so shiz that the government reccomend it to people) ... oh okay then.

And you must be like how old? 25? Older?

I gave a list of the programs that I had. If you knew basic numbers you could have counted them. You keep saying how dumb I am, when you're the one going around blabbing about stuff you don't know about, with improper sentences. AVG is crap, you can google the hate stories on it. They've just started to get better.

Oh, and I'm older than you, which makes me older than 10. :D

[awelsh]

Seeing as I am the Tech Security Admin at work, I think I know a bit more than you. Each program finds stuff that the other one could miss. It's called extra security. And do you know how many times the source code for AVG has been posted on underground forums? You could google it but you'd never find it. The AVG server that has the source code on it has so many open ports that a script kiddy could get into it. You can have as many programs on your computer as you want, it just depends on how much security you want. Lots of times 1 AV program will find a virus, and the other won't. Sometimes it takes time for 1 program to put out an update.

So your a security tech admin really? So why do you have a job at habbox as an events organiser, pretty sad tbh. If you really do work at this place you must be pretty old.

Really you have nothing better to do than have your nice fake life on here do you?

You dont need more than 1AV, zonealarm is a decent one. Protected me for years, anti virus and firewall, I paid for it but im pretty sure theres a free version available.

[Trinity]

So your a security tech admin really? So why do you have a job at habbox as an events organiser, pretty sad tbh. If you really do work at this place you must be pretty old.

Really you have nothing better to do than have your nice fake life on here do you?

You dont need more than 1AV, zonealarm is a decent one. Protected me for years, anti virus and firewall, I paid for it but im pretty sure theres a free version available.

Zonealarm is the worst AV I've ever used. I recommend ESET Smart Security.

[Laggings]

So your a security tech admin really? So why do you have a job at habbox as an events organiser, pretty sad tbh. If you really do work at this place you must be pretty old.

Really you have nothing better to do than have your nice fake life on here do you?

You dont need more than 1AV, zonealarm is a decent one. Protected me for years, anti virus and firewall, I paid for it but im pretty sure theres a free version available.

No actually I'm younger than 18 :D 'Nice fake life'? What really does that mean? Lol... And you don't really need more than 1 AV. I just gave a list of AV programs that I use. And yes, I do use more than 1 AV because.., well, just read the post I wrote before. :P And hell yeah, zonealarm is pretty 1337.

[Fehm]

No actually I'm younger than 18 :D 'Nice fake life'? What really does that mean? Lol... And you don't really need more than 1 AV. I just gave a list of AV programs that I use. And yes, I do use more than 1 AV because.., well, just read the post I wrote before. :P And hell yeah, zonealarm is pretty 1337.


If your younger than 18, then your works pretty stupid letting a 'child' look after their security. That was a blatent lie and you've earnt no respect from saying that

[Laggings]

If your younger than 18, then your works pretty stupid letting a 'child' look after their security. That was a blatent lie and you've earnt no respect from saying that

I said 'under' 18, I didn't say I was under 17 :L I'm damn well not a child, and the reason I work as an IT Tech Admin is because they realised that I knew a good deal about computer security.

Now please, if you want to continue this argument, private message me. DarkEnemy asked for advice and this thread should be for giving it to him, not me having to answer to everyone who wants to question me.

[Ardemax]

ccleaner

google it

[Laggings]

ccleaner

google it

Yes, I use ccleaner :D

[Ardemax]

Yes, I use ccleaner :D


nice to know

i own a towel

[Laggings]

-Yawn, ok, here it goes.

First off, you'll want to delete your internet files, temps, caches.
You can do this by going into Start > Control Panel > Internet Options, and deleting them from there. You can also download ATF cleaner, which does an amazing job cleaning off the files you really don't. Last, but not least, is Ccleaner. It will clean your registry files aswell, which will make your computer faster.

Next would be getting a good antivirus program(s). Free: Avira Antivirus (AntiVirus) + Online Armor (Firewall) + Bluecoat K9 (Parental Control). Yeah, you're like PARENTAL CONTROL? You can choose what to block, like known sites that have malware and spyware. I use it mostly for that, and it works amazingly.

Other programs would be (Free):
SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard
Spybot - Search and Destroy
SUPERantiSpyware
Ad-Aware
a-squared

Most say Spy(something), and will catch a hell of a lot of known virus' and other things you don't want on your computer.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Edit: 500th post! :D

If you see, I posted that first :D

[Oleh]

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/22866cd1d89598etoomany.png (http://www.tehupload.com/share/52342)

thats my Anti virus set-up :)

[Kevin]

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/22866cd1d89598etoomany.png (http://www.tehupload.com/share/52342)

thats my Anti virus set-up :)


That's not good, Running more than one anti virus at a time can cause problems, You're safer with one then 4.

Stick with Eset, bin the rest, or turn them off realtime detection.

When you get a warning when installing an A/V, warning you about conflicts you should take note of them, not install 50 different ones.

Apart from lagging you're pc terribly, you're going to get conflicts also.

[AgnesIO]

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/22866cd1d89598etoomany.png (http://www.tehupload.com/share/52342)

thats my Anti virus set-up :)


I suggest you stop getting threats :P

& and a half minutes yet u got 13 threats? :P

[parky1306]

So Laggings, your 17? No way on earth would a company that holds all this 'top secret highly secure details shiz' let a 17 year old be Tech Security Admin at a company that holds such private data, unless there really really reallyyyyyyyyy stupid.

So lets not chat crap and help this guy speed up his PC

[Laggings]

That's not good, Running more than one anti virus at a time can cause problems, You're safer with one then 4.

Stick with Eset, bin the rest, or turn them off realtime detection.

When you get a warning when installing an A/V, warning you about conflicts you should take note of them, not install 50 different ones.

Apart from lagging you're pc terribly, you're going to get conflicts also.

I agree with you, and this is what I've been saying. You can have more than 1 AV on your computer, but it's better if only 1 is running real time, which since a lot of people don't understand, means it's running on your pc.


So Laggings, your 17? No way on earth would a company that holds all this 'top secret highly secure details shiz' let a 17 year old be Tech Security Admin at a company that holds such private data, unless there really really reallyyyyyyyyy stupid.

So lets not chat crap and help this guy speed up his PC

It's not really 'top secret highly secure details shiz', it's an appraisal company. But the bosses here that do them could be sued over some of the stuff, because of client-business confidentiality. Stop trying to act like you know everything about Computer security parky, you obviously don't. And I'm not saying I do either :L

[awelsh]

Try TuneUP 2009

Need to pay for it unles you warez it, works great :)

[parky1306]

I quote you 'And as stated before, I have 12 AV programs because my company deals with highly secure information, and if any of it was leaked into the public, it could be sold for a great deal of money and we could be sued'

What does you having AV programs have to do with your company?

And i really dont think a company would let a 17 year old be tech security admin? I think theyd have someone alot more experienced, whos atleast 25. Youd need a good qualification to be a tech security admin at a company which holds such 'highly secure information' as you say. That means youd have to go to college, then university probably, but definatley atleast 2 years at college, and your 17? so you obviously havent even done one full year at a college.

Therefore i think its clear your lying or have got mixed up along the way somewhere

[Laggings]

Av programs protect from virus' which could leave us open for script kiddy hackers to get access to our files and leak them to the public. If that happened we could be sued for confidentiality reasons.

And the company owner knows me and my family, knows of the work I do, and trusts me to protect their network.

[parky1306]

Aha okay, i doubt it

A company wouldnt take on a 17 year old to be tech security admin, theyd look for a professional with atleast a well known certificate like an iPro or Cicso or Microsoft Certified Desktop Technician certificate, not a 17 yr old kid

[paul4wolves]

Just use AVG Virus protector and Zone Alarm firewall. My computer has been running fine for years with these two components.

[Kevin]

Aha okay, i doubt it

A company wouldnt take on a 17 year old to be tech security admin, theyd look for a professional with atleast a well known certificate like an iPro or Cicso or Microsoft Certified Desktop Technician certificate, not a 17 yr old kid


With 12 Anti-Viruses running on realtime, I'm sure it would have trouble picking up EICAR.

[Laggings]

Who ever said anything about 12 anti-virus programs running on realtime?
I only have 1....