Author Topic: Speed It Up Free. (Read 1363 times)

F Body · « **on:** November 14, 2009, 08:38:55 pm »

My Desk Top has been getting slower & slower, taking about 15 minutes to boot up and taking ages to load programmes, also running out of memory

That's kids for you

Had look around on the interweb thingy and Wiki recommended some free ware Speed It Up Free

Downloaded it and it crashed twice, but then turned off all virus,spy and adware software and it ran fine. It took about 4 hours to run through the system, but after a reboot the difference is fantastic

Now takes about 4 minutes to boot up, doesn't run out of memory and loads programmes quickly

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/System_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/Speedup_any_PC_Free.html

Fieldy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2009, 07:36:53 am »

Any computer pros have any thoughts before I do it to my work computer

Jamieg285 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2009, 10:14:35 am »

I'd like to know what it does before giving it free reign on my PC. Sounds interesting though. I'll have a closer look later and let you know what I find.

Incursus · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2009, 12:48:41 pm »

Shoulda bought a Mac

Fieldy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 15, 2009, 01:26:36 pm »

Quoting: Jamieg285

'd like to know what it does before giving it free reign on my PC. Sounds interesting though. I'll have a closer look later and let you know what I find.

Let us know please

Jamieg285 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 16, 2009, 08:44:18 am »

Mmm, plot foiled.

The laptop fan has died and it overheats and crahes, so I've not had a chance to look into this, and the filters at work won't let me see it there either.

One day....

EDGE · « **Reply #6 on:** November 16, 2009, 11:07:16 am »

and you lot STILL refuse to buy Apple Macs....

Fieldy · « **Reply #7 on:** November 16, 2009, 12:02:26 pm »

Quoting: EDGE

and you lot STILL refuse to buy Apple Macs....

ahem.....

a91_formula · « **Reply #8 on:** November 16, 2009, 12:21:05 pm »

lmao - don't get any of these problems with a Mac

Incursus · « **Reply #9 on:** November 16, 2009, 12:44:00 pm »

Gotta love Mac owners, so predictable

Titsy · « **Reply #10 on:** November 16, 2009, 12:52:26 pm »

F Body · « **Reply #11 on:** November 16, 2009, 12:52:55 pm »

Quoting: Jamieg285

Shoulda bought a Mac

Bill told me to stay away from Steve he's evil

Titsy · « **Reply #12 on:** November 16, 2009, 01:09:40 pm »

Quoting: F Body

Quoting: Jamieg285
Shoulda bought a Mac

Holy mis-quote Batman...

EDGE · « **Reply #13 on:** November 16, 2009, 01:44:05 pm »

Quoting: Incursus

Gotta love Mac owners, so predictable

bit like our computers i guess...

I for one do NOT miss googling error codes, or turning the machine on in the morning to find windows booting in to safe mode for no apparent reason....

sometimes....... in certain cases...... predictability is good...

Incursus · « **Reply #14 on:** November 16, 2009, 02:11:50 pm »

Shut it Ford boy!.......oh no wait....crap!

EDGE · « **Reply #15 on:** November 16, 2009, 02:39:30 pm »

Roadkill · « **Reply #16 on:** November 16, 2009, 05:54:24 pm »

I haven't had any issues with my P.C in it's current form for well over a year . . . probably two, actually . . .

Time to upgrade, then - it clearly requires stressing-out.

Incursus · « **Reply #17 on:** November 17, 2009, 08:19:54 am »

Quoting: Roadkill

I haven't had any issues with my P.C in it's current form for well over a year . . . probably two, actually . .

Indeed. And thinking back the only problems I had we're if I had been messing around with it...oh and one Mobo failure 6 years ago.

Oh and a Graphics card that I plugged the power supply in the wrong polarity

They changed that under warranty though

Think my PC has cost me around £500 over last 5 years and £300ish of that was buying bigger HDD's(really should stop downloading porn), software and and shiny new monitor.

Fieldy · « **Reply #18 on:** November 18, 2009, 11:00:47 am »

So far that programme has sped my work PC up alot

Andy · « **Reply #19 on:** November 18, 2009, 11:41:41 am »

Any more clues as to what it does? I will investigate downloading it if it doesn't cause any issues.

F Body · « **Reply #20 on:** November 18, 2009, 12:43:07 pm »

Quoting: Andy

Any more clues as to what it does? I

It would appear to shut down anything running in the background which isn't needed and re-formats the hard drive.
It's not defragmentation as such ( which I had done the day before anyway ) it seems to re-organize files into the fastest opening sequence

But whatever or however it does it, it works

Andy · « **Reply #21 on:** November 19, 2009, 08:17:59 am »

Are you running XP or Vista?