Very true..........I absolutely cringe when I see the TV Ads to fix your PC with one click or make faster.
I've never seen such an ad.
I use CCleaner.....sparingly......and rarely if ever use the reg cleaner in it.
To some degree I could understand using it as a simple tool to delete temporary files and browser caches, however there are better ways like the integrated disk cleanup and to use private browsing so that "cleaning traces" would be useless for that anyways.
Also, cleaning some files like .dmp files in case you want help or video caches in some players like VLC might lead to performance issues in case the cache has to be created for anew could be more harmful than useful.
But, why would you want to use a reg cleaner? There's no need to delete any useless key, because Windows has been loading only the necessary segment of the registry since Windows XP and not the whole thing in case a program needs it. So cleaning registry is a waste of time with a potentially risk to accidentally "clean" important registry keys.
(MalwareByte Pro)
Scanning with the free version is enough, but you can also support the developer by buying the pro version. However, even when you buy it, I'd say that you don't need the additional real-time protection, but instead you could profit more from automatic updates or scheduled scans.
If you PC needs tuning simply use the Windows Defragger weekly and this will make the biggest impact
No, just no. Don't try to fix what is not broken. Windows already defrags every HDD in the background every week, it might only be necessary, in case you change/add many different small files but usually don't let your computer on, so that you want that task to finish at least once a month when you have the time.
other option is to increase your Virtual Memory allocation within Windows
The paging file already gets bigger in case there is a need for it. The only possible outcomes in which some virtual memory tuning allocation would be benefitial are:
- for Windows XP, when making a smaller paging file or even disabling it (which could lead to error messages in applications) would force the OS to use more physical memory/RAM (Windows Vista and above don't need that)
- if you don't have much space on your SSD and much RAM, however I wouldn't disable it, instead I'd try with a fixed 2048-2048MB setup first
- for HDD to reduce the fragmentation of the paging file in case it has the same starting and ending size
If you want a real tuning tip, just make sure Windows can run its tasks in the background while being on idle.
You might also want to make sure whether the indexing is working correctly.
First of all, make sure you didn't disable it on the drive/s: right click on it/them and see whether the indexing option is checked.
Then go to the indexing options
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/improve-windows-searches-using-index-faq#1TC=windows-7 and see whether all your drives are part of the index. If not, add them to the index and let it finish, you can still work with your computer or you can do it when you're sleeping or away for a few hours and it doesn't have any disadvantages in case you can only partially complete the task, Windows will continue it from the last time.
Once it's done, searching in the explorer will be only a matter of a few seconds for typing the very first letters even for HDDs.
