Comments on: A Complete Tune-Up for Your Ailing Computer — Free http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/ Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Personal Trainer http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65881 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:26:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65881 Take it apart and blow the dust out, it’s amazing what a difference that alone can sometimes make.

Pete

]]> By: My Get Things Done List » Blog Archive » Inspirational Links [HD BizBlog 1.2] http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65880 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:07:14 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65880 [...] Web Worker Daily has some resources for giving your computer a tune-up. [...]

]]> By: Bill Kruse http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65879 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:15:06 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65879 Before you run something that’s going to tinker with your registry, install and run in auto mode the program ERUNT for a few days. It’ll make backups of your registry and you should be able to have someone techie restore your machine using Barts if it won’t boot or whatever after you’ve been fooling around with registry cleaners. Really, though, anything past 98 and you shouldn’t be using a registry cleaner at all. I found out the hard way!

BB

]]> By: Registry Cleaner http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65878 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:51:20 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65878 Thats a very good looking piece of software. Thanks

]]> By: Software Dev Tools « QuantuMatrix’s Weblog http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65877 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:59:30 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65877 [...] A Complete Tune-Up for Your Ailing Computer – Free [...]

]]> By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive 5 On-the-Fly Efficiency Tips When Using Windows & Apps « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65876 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:00:20 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65876 [...] to regularly clean out your Windows Registry, which improves boot time and more. I like to use Glary Utilities to do this quickly, and it lets you make a backup of your registry in case you eject anything you [...]

]]> By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Free Memory Optimization: Set It and Forget It « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65875 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:37 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65875 [...] Registry. Glary Utilities also has a good module for doing that in one step, which I wrote about here.  One note: If you do a registry cleaning take Glary Utilities up on creating a backup of your [...]

]]> By: Joanna Hodges http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65874 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:05:15 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65874 Great post – finally help for the infinite hand-me-down PC issues my family puts me through. Happy to help out, but what a pain in butt cleaning my old computers up, removing stuff, etc! To keep them from coming back to me every time the have a problem, I dumped this great tool on each (let’s them clean up their own problems!). Anyone else using TuneUp Utilities? There’s a 2008 version out now that I haven’t tried: http://www.tune-up.com

]]> By: Windows PC fixes « Two cultures, one mind. http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65873 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:01:50 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65873 [...] better than in situ.  As well as the obvious removal of ‘bloatware’, I’ve used this article as a good starter.  In particular, Glary Utilities fixed over seven hundred registry errors on [...]

]]> By: Zia http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65872 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:36:20 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/11/16/a-complete-tune-up-for-your-ailing-computer-free/#comment-65872 Fantastic post. many thanks for these suggestions!

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