rayhough
Cairo, NY, USA
Senior Member
Joined: 09/22/2003
View Profile
 Offline
|
I had to call Linksys tech support last night. Besides selling me a new router, he was trying to sell me Computer Optamization for $199 for one year. He claimed that this would clean up my old XP computers so they would run like new. Is this for real? I use AVG free and Spybot to keep things running fairly well. Thanks
Life is like a roll of toilet paper
the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
Enjoy it what's left.
Happy traveling, Ray 
|
kmbelt
Owensboro,Ky
Senior Member
Joined: 09/11/2009
View Profile
Offline
|
rayhough wrote:I had to call Linksys tech support last night. Besides selling me a new router, he was trying to sell me Computer Optamization for $199 for one year. He claimed that this would clean up my old XP computers so they would run like new. Is this for real? I use AVG free and Spybot to keep things running fairly well. Thanks
Not worth the money. Sounds like you already take care of it yourself.
2009 GMC Sierra 2500HD 6.0L CC 4x4
2010 Puma 259RBSS
|
YC 1
Yuba City Calif.
Senior Member
Joined: 01/11/2005
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
Offline
|
Just use the built in disk cleanup and deframent program found in your system.
If you want an excellent tool to really clean up then use "wincleaner". Inexpensive and quite effective.
To really increase your speed upgrade your Ram. XP really runs well on 500 mb of ram.
* This post was
edited 07/29/10 12:01pm by YC 1 *
H/R Endeavor 2008
2007 Hummer H3 toad
Ranger Boat
|
deltamaster
Middletown, New york
Senior Member
Joined: 04/23/2004
View Profile
Offline
|
kmbelt wrote:rayhough wrote:I had to call Linksys tech support last night. Besides selling me a new router, he was trying to sell me Computer Optamization for $199 for one year. He claimed that this would clean up my old XP computers so they would run like new. Is this for real? I use AVG free and Spybot to keep things running fairly well. Thanks
Not worth the money. Sounds like you already take care of it yourself.
Ditto.
These "optimization things" work really great for making the seller money and not much else.
 I ride it like I stole it! 
.......and I just may have.......
I'm on "CB-13", are you?
2004 Fun Mover -- 2002 Sportster -- 1997 Road King
All being pushed down the road by a 1997 "Ram Tough" Dodge Dakota
TSgt(Ret.) USAF
|
fla-gypsy
North Florida
Senior Member
Joined: 04/19/2005
View Profile
Offline
|
deltamaster wrote:kmbelt wrote:rayhough wrote:I had to call Linksys tech support last night. Besides selling me a new router, he was trying to sell me Computer Optamization for $199 for one year. He claimed that this would clean up my old XP computers so they would run like new. Is this for real? I use AVG free and Spybot to keep things running fairly well. Thanks
Not worth the money. Sounds like you already take care of it yourself.
Ditto.
These "optimization things" work really great for making the seller money and not much else.
+1, if you need to clean up something use the built in tools or a free program like CC Cleaner
09 SuperDuty Crew Cab 6.8L/4.10(The Black Pearl)
06 Keystone Hornet 29 RLS/(The Cracker Cabana)
Camping Photos
|
|
|
magicbus
LBI, NJ or Nantucket, MA
Senior Member
Joined: 06/16/2002
View Profile
|
Run Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Cleanup and tell it top get rid of your temp files. You will see a much bigger improvement than using anything that claims it will gain you speed by cleaning your registry.
Dave
Our new RV... the adventure continues.
|
wittmeba
Virginia
Senior Member
Joined: 02/02/2001
View Profile
|
There are a couple things you can do to help yourself - and they are free.
CCleaner - a program that cleans up cache files, bad registry entries, usused files, etc
CCleaner
Glary Disk Utilities - same thing
Glary Disk Utilities
Run one of these every few days.
Reboot your PC, your modem and your router (if you use one) - daily would be good
And as magicbus suggests, disk clean up, defrag and you can run chkdsk /f from a cmd or DOS window.
Firefox® 10
Firefox® Add-ons
Say Thank You
Log home
Did you hear what the masochist said to the sadist? He said, "Hit me". The sadist said, "No".
|
wa8yxm
Wherever I happen to park
Senior Member
Joined: 07/04/2006
View Profile
Offline
|
I have tried several computer optimization products in the past.
Here is the sequence of how I do it:
First, make a full back up of the computer using Acronis True Image
Then install the computer optimizer
Then try to run all my apps.
Then do a "RESTORE" from the disc image I made in step 1 cause the optimizer did more damage than good.
With one exception that was every one of them
That one exception is more a clean up than a optimizer, it's CCleaner and it's free. However, the "Default" is about one step from "Do Nothing" but it is very knowledgeable user configurable.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
Kenwood TS-2000 housed in a 2005 Damon Intruder 377
|
wittmeba
Virginia
Senior Member
Joined: 02/02/2001
View Profile
|
With Glary, you can configure the clean-up routines separately, then use the 1-click feature to run them all when needed or you can run each separately. I switched from CCleaner to Glary about a year ago.
The bottom line is there isnt too much you can do to improve performance of your pc short of adding more memory.
But keeping your PC cleaned up will help. Program defaults (Firefox, IE, CCleaner, Glary, etc) are just the developers suggestion to get you started. It is up to you to learn and understand how to customize your system clean-up routines.
Individual routines runable by the 1-click feature:
- Registry Cleaner
- Temporary Files Cleaner
- Shortcuts Fixer
- Tracks Eraser
- Startup Manager
- Spyware Remover
(the other items are checked just like the temp files cleaner in the actual program)
You will be notificd when updates are available for download.
It is difficult to really determine just how efficient any of these programs are without exhaustive testing, but if it does 80%, its worth running to me.
|
