Help me clean up my laptop

[puglove]

Right guys i have a HP laptop running windows 7. about 1 year old.

No it is slow as fook, takes for ever to load web pages, or do anything.

keep getting script error messages, web pages stop responding all the time, then takes a an age to recover them, basicaly i just want to wipe the whole thing to restore the thing so its like a brand new lap top,

BUT i dont want to loose pics,music,videos.Everything eles can go and start again.


Any help is much appricated

[Matt]

Mines the same.


But keep getting corrupt file messages. It's gay as f*ck.
Too much porn!

[rocker8742]

Copy pics and everything to an external drive and re install windows just done it to mine made a big difference

Make sure you keep all the drivers though i used double driver to copy them all to a usb stick

[cpikey316_]

Back them up to something external? If you dont have a HDD then DVD-rs will do at a push

Or do you have a C and D partition? On my laptop, although it only has one hard drive, its split into two. When I restore it, only the stuff on C is removed, thus cleaning up the messy slow OS but not touching my data. But this may not apply to your laptop!

[C.A.R.]

Save all the pics and music to a hard-drive / memory sticks and start afresh by wiping the computer and re-installing windows?

or

Stop downloading horse porn.

[Eeyore]

Reinstall windows is the obvious thing...

Run CCleaner and defragler to speed it up.

[DeeTurbo]

Run CCleaner and defragler to speed it up.

Yeah deffo this.

Uninstall all the crap programs you never use in control panel, "add or remove programs" bit and the shitty tool bars in your web browser.

Then run CCleaner, that can clear the temp files clogging up you computer and the registry cleaner, that will sort out the background stuff.

After CCleaner run the defragler.

Since using CCleaner on my computers I've never had to wipe clean a computer and start from fresh to get it running sweet.

[puglove]

HWHAT?

I didnt unsterstand a word of any of that? lol, All i know about laptops/ computers is forum/ebay/photoshop so if some one could talk me through the easiest way would be great.

Even just to clean it up a bit rather than wiping as that sounds hard lol

[Grant]

Dont run windows, get a mac, problem solved.

Ive never looked back

[DeeTurbo]

HWHAT?

I didnt unsterstand a word of any of that? lol, All i know about laptops/ computers is forum/ebay/photoshop so if some one could talk me through the easiest way would be great.

Even just to clean it up a bit rather than wiping as that sounds hard lol

I'll try and write something up to night with screen shots for you.

In the mean time down load a free program called CCleaner. LINK

[puglove]

Nice one cheers buddy

[DeeTurbo]

HWHAT?

I didnt unsterstand a word of any of that? lol, All i know about laptops/ computers is forum/ebay/photoshop so if some one could talk me through the easiest way would be great.

Even just to clean it up a bit rather than wiping as that sounds hard lol

I've done a little guide for you.

So once you've downloaded CCleaner from that link and installed it just do the following.

First uninstall the programs you don't use and the ones that you might of installed that were free trials.



So go to control panel and select "Programs and features"



Uninstall a program at a time. So right click on the program you want to get rid off and select uninstall and then follow the short wizard.

Once you've got rid of the programs you don't need start CCleaner.



Click Analyze



Once analysed it will give you a list of things it'll be deleting. Have a quick look at this list to make sure you're happy with the bits to be deleted. Then click run cleaner.



When that's done click on the Registry tab, click Scan for issues, once scanned click Fix Selected Issues. It will then prompt you to save a back up of registry, do this.



Click Fix Selected Issues and then click scan for issues again because there is always some that need a second try to fix.

Now that's the CCleaner bit done.

I usually now do a full defrag. To do this go to start button, select Computer, right click on the the local drive. Click on Properties from the menu, Tools from the tab and then fragmentation now. Select the main drive and defragment disk. This might take a few hours.

That's it, good luck.

[Scott]

Rep for the helpful post

[DeeTurbo]

Thanks

[puglove]

Thank you very much . Mucho aprriciated . Rep'd again for being extremaly help full.


Scott maybe worth pinning for others?

[DeeTurbo]

Thank you very much . Mucho aprriciated . Rep'd again for being extremaly help full.

Let me know how you get on. I didn't do a guide for defragler as I've not used it be for but the windows defrag should be ok.

I've been meaning to try defragler, If I do use it I'll do the same type of guide as I've done for the CCleaner.

[Tom]

I've been a ccleaner user for ages every laptop or pc i use i put it on there its such a great tool! Downloaded and used defraggler aswell yesturday and it was awesome, simple to use and full of clever features

[Toms306]

Good little guide....

I've just downloaded CCleaner - my PC is about 15 months old now and shows no signs of slowing down but as there was 1.5Gb of crap in the recycle bin and I've never deleted internet history thought it might be good to clean it up anyway.

I've just analyzed it and some of the 'applications' it wants to delete seem pretty important (Microsoft Office for example)...dunno if Im just being thick here, but is there some temp files it wants to delete from the program or does it want to remove the programme itself?

[DeeTurbo]

I've just analyzed it and some of the 'applications' it wants to delete seem pretty important (Microsoft Office for example)...dunno if Im just being thick here, but is there some temp files it wants to delete from the program or does it want to remove the programme itself?

Yes, it'll just be temp files in office that it wants to delete.

[Tom]

Theres also a start up feature on ccleaner which is handy if you have to switch on your pc then wait whilst it trys to open everything at once! Seems to be something i've noticed vista computers doing, or maybe its just shit?

[DeeTurbo]

Yes this is a really good feature as stopping silly things starting up reduces the processes and the amount of shit clogging up the memory.

[lolsteve]

System restore? could you not restore to the first point

[DeeTurbo]

System restore? could you not restore to the first point

I've never used the restore functions in windows but don't you have to create a new restore point every time you install something new?

[Toms306]

I've just analyzed it and some of the 'applications' it wants to delete seem pretty important (Microsoft Office for example)...dunno if Im just being thick here, but is there some temp files it wants to delete from the program or does it want to remove the programme itself?

Yes, it'll just be temp files in office that it wants to delete.

Ah ok, cheers.

[silverzx]

CCleaner, MalwareBytes & SpyBot Search and Destroy are all free tools that should help improve the performance of the computer.

[4WayDiablo]

clean up your laptop you say?