Thread: 12 software to speed up your PC

When you purchase a new PC, everything goes well, his speed is still "impressive". But for many users, the weather wreaked havoc, and there comes a time when we must do the housework. How? With what tools and what precautions? These are troubling questions which aims to answer in this latest issue.

Cleaning before spring

A PC that gets dirty, it's a user who wins the right to rail against the machine. For as powerful as it is, your computer also suffers the vicissitudes of everyday use. The software installations of any kind, downloading recurrent and surfing on the Internet have a direct impact on Windows. And it is not cleaning cookies or defragmentation "hand" that will put straight on your operating system.

12 essential software

As often to perform menial tasks, it should rely on software quality. That is the purpose of this file. No way to compile this comprehensive list cleaning software. The purpose of this paper is to introduce you to powerful tools in their fields whether it is cleaning the registry, filtering DLLs or help to uninstall software recalcitrant.

Our 12 programs have in common is that the most effective in their field, but also easily accessible and free for almost all of them.

1. CCleaner

CCleaner is the ideal tool, and free, to give a second youth in your machine. He has several useful modules, including a thorough cleaning of the system. Analysis of the registry, delete the dll exist, delete obsolete shortcuts ... CCleaner does it all at once and, especially, it is effectively and simply. It includes, in addition, a temporary file cleaner that works with several third party applications: Opera Torrent, VNC or Quicktime. In short, this is essential software to maintain its level machine.

2. Spybot

Spybot is the perfect tool to effectively protect and optimize your PC against attacks from outside, they are kind of Spyware or Malware. The software offers several modules very effective as the real-time protection or a system scan, which scans your hard drive in search of pollutants. After cleaning, your machine will find almost a second youth, free of bulky files and harmful. To use it properly, do not scan the hard drive regularly and enable real-time protection that alerts you immediately if the presence of a suspicious file.

3. Glary Utilities

100% Free, Glary Utilities is nonetheless interesting. Not content to be comprehensive, he is also simple to use. Its primary tool, dubbed "1-click maintenance" can very easily run a full system scan which allows the cleaning of the registry, deleting unnecessary shortcuts, deleting temporary files, and eradication of spyware. Other useful modules are also present, such as a RAM optimizer, a registry defragmenter or an uninstall manager. In short, what significantly boost his machine without spending a single euro.

4. Ad-Aware

Swiss army knife dedicated operating system, Ad-Aware comes in several versions. This fee, called Ad-Aware Plus Anniversary Edition offers a range of very interesting tools: detection and removal of spyware on your hard disk, real-time protection, optimizing Windows starts ... In short, what effectively boost his machine. The freeware version called Ad-Aware Free, was "glad" of a scan tool and a real-time protection against spyware. Whether one opts for offering free or paid, Ad-Aware is an indispensable tool to optimize the performance of your PC.

5. Defraggler

With the years and too many applications cluttering the hard drive, Windows performance decreases slowly but surely. It is in these moments that defragmentation occurs. Your drive must indeed be defragmented regularly to breathe easier and a tool like Defraggler is needed quickly. Created by the authors of CCleaner, Defraggler advantage of being extremely fast to process your hard drive, compared with the tool included in Windows. Once "cleansed," you really feel a difference in performance. But do still use this tool regularly.

6. RamBooster

RamBooster easily allows you to optimize the management of your memory, whether on Windows XP, Vista and Seven. Entirely in French and quite simple to use, RamBooster XP displays in real time and memory resources used can defragment them with a single click.

7. Smart PC

While paying, Smart PC nonetheless interesting. It offers an array of powerful tools, allowing real optimizing your machine. Acceleration time you start your PC, optimize the registry, cleaning your DLL, security system ... The list is long and Smart PC has the advantage of being extremely easy to use. Therefore need to novice users who wish to receive a complete software and easy access.

8. DLL Archive

DLL Archive is also simple and effective. Dedicated exclusively to purge unnecessary DLLs, this freeware is used in a few clicks. It will scan your system in search of orphaned files and it is up to you to confirm if they are attached to an existing application or not. On error, do not worry: the software automatically archives your DLL erased. They can then be restored in seconds. If the soft demand some knowledge of your system, it allows an optimization especially thorough.


9. Driver Sweeper

Have you ever had to deal with a recalcitrant driver, so it is always tough on your machine, despite a traditional uninstall? By dint of "remnants", your machine gets stuck and is most likely to be victims of a conflict when installing a new device. Precisely at this moment Driver Sweeper operates. Complementing a traditional uninstall, this software free returns behind the driver removal to clear the last traces of it. Primarily intended for graphics cards, Driver Sweeper is essential to ensure good stability to the system.

10. Revo Uninstaller

By dint of applications installed, your system slows down and saturates inexorably. Constantly criticized the uninstall tool offered by Windows is often winded and sometimes does not properly remove software. Revo Uninstaller replaces the native tool from Microsoft, providing effective control and easy to use. The tool also offers a few bonuses, like a cleaner browsing history or management applications on Windows startup. If it is classical in its bottom, Revo Uninstaller is nevertheless very useful.

11. Treesize

If Treesize does not act directly on the performance of your PC, however it allows excellent visibility for the free space on your hard drive. We can not emphasize enough, but a stable system through a disk drive that "breathes." TreeSize Free and a kind of "super browser" and allows you to view in a glance which files take up more space on your machine. A good way, for example, to locate files "TEMP" (which can be immediately emptied) too big.

12. SuperCopier

SuperCopier very effectively replaces the system file copy of Windows. His greatest quality is to optimize the flow of copy according to the power of the PC. The speed can thus be greatly improved and the latter gained are real. In addition, it puts a copy on a break or creates a queue. Still in beta, this freeware is, however, shows a surprising stability.