Fall PC Clean-Up

Fall Cleanup... for your pc. Here is an updated list of our favorite cleaning utilities/programs.

Anti-Spyware

• We like to run several programs to help clean spyware off of your computer. Different programs find different malware. You can find these programs free at www.download.com . Currently, our favorites include:
• SuperAntiSpyware
• Spybot Search & Destroy
• Malwarebytes
• Ad-Aware
• Separately, Spywareblaster is a good program to run in the background to help prevent spyware from entering your pc.

Registry

• Cleaning up the registry can help reduce errors and speed up your pc.
• Check out: Advanced SystemCare, CCleaner, Glary Utilities

Defrag Your Hard-Drive

• You should defragment your hard-drive from time to time. You don't want your pc unnecessarily jumping around the hard-drive grabbing data. Remember to run your defrag:
• Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools> Disk Defragmenter
• If you use Advanced SystemCare (above), the Defrag will be done automatically.

Anti-Virus

• Also, make sure your anti-virus program is updated. And, run a scan if you don't have it scanning regularly.
• We like Avast; AVG is also good.

New King in Town (Free Anti-Virus)

AVG has been our favorite for quite some time -- and it is STILL one of the best anti-virus programs out there. However, AVAST is currently our favorite anti-virus program, because we believe it finds more viruses than its other free competitors.

One of our PCs was sluggish -- and AVAST found what other programs could not...

Years ago, Avast seemed to run too many things int he background -- and was confusing for some users -- but today, many of those problems seem to be fixed. Check it out:

AVAST -- at www.download.com