Speeding up young James PC.
Young James brought his PC down to me & asked that I put more ram into his PC & could I make his PC faster, he explained that he is just 13 years old & has not got a lot of money.
This is what I did.
1. After connecting the PC up & booting the PC, I downloaded free speccy:
I ran free speccy, this gave me the PC spec & told me if the PC was running hot.
Spec:
XP home
Emachine 4210
2.80 GHz Intel Celeron Processor
512mb ram.
80 GB HD (half full)
The PC is not running hot.
2. I take the side casing off & I can see the CPU fan is full of dust so is the heatsink, so I shutdown the PC & remove the CPU fan & remove the heatsink, the paste behind the heatsink has not dried up, I clean the CPU fan & the heatsink & clean off the old paste, put new paste on, re-seat the heatsink & put on the CPU fan.
3. On all PC's I work on I put free Secunia Personal Software Inspspector on, so I booted up & download free Secunia Personal Software Inspspector & run it, a few programs needed updating, so I update them & get a score of 100%, left PC running & went to the shop for more ram.
4. Upon returning check with speccy the PC's temperatures & all is well, shut PC down & upgraded the ram from 512mb to 1 GB, put side casing back on & rebooted PC.
5. Upon reboot I noticed the PC is no faster
6. The PC has Free Avira (AV), free Mbam (AM), Free Superantispyware (AS) & it’s using windows firewall, I update Free Avira, full scan & it’s clean, I then do the same with free Mbam & Free Superantispyware & all is clean, I notice that with Free Avira that the program working alright, but it does not look right (looks like Free Avira use to look like, not how is does now), so I removed Free Avira & re-downloaded it after (looks right now)
7. The PC is still running slow, happy that the PC is clean & up to date, I look at getting it to run faster, I open IE, I see a few toolbars, I don’t like toolbars so I shut IE down, go to add & remove & delete the toolbars, then open IE, I check the setting, the setting are still the default setting, however James has blocked third party cookies (good lad).
I view toolbars & third party cookies as a form of spyware.
8. I then go Start>all programs>Startup – PSI is here & so is Microsoft office, I leave PSI but right click Microsoft office & delete it (right click anything here & delete if not required on startup)
9. I notice free Ccleaner on the PC, so I open it & run the cleaner, I keep running it until it finds nothing, I then click registry on the left & run it until is finds nothing, I then click tools on the left side, then click startup, then click what I don’t require on startup, then click disable on right side (do NOT click delete, if you click disable you can always go back & enable it if you make a mistake)
How do you know what to disable from startup ? If you’re not sure google what’s there, don’t disable anything to do with your antivirus program, free PSI or any programs with real time protection.
10. I notice the PC has not been defrag for a long time, so I download free smart defrag:
I set it up; then tell it to do a defrag & go for a cuppa tea.
11. After a cuppa tea, I decide to disable Searchindexer.exe:
Start>run>Services.msc >ok - Look for two items “Indexing Services” and "Windows Search." double click them & disable them.
Then:
Start>run>msconfig> services tab >uncheck indexing services (if there) reboot
Start>run>msconfig> services tab >uncheck indexing services (if there) reboot
12. Removed speccy, shut PC down & took it back to 13 year old James, charge him for the ram, cleaning the CPU fan & reseating the heatsink I did for free, by the time I got back home, there was an email from James, “bloody great, goes like a bat out of hell, what did you do?” now you know James
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