I ran defrag, cleaned out cookies and a few other things. Any idiot proof freeware to clean off jpgs from celeb pics and news pics? Should I also look for a registry fixer and cleaner. The employee is a good worker but surfs while eating lunch at their desk. Thanks. Sorry for the vanity. I hate to post and add clutter.
CCleaner.com
Crap Cleaner....
Shamwow!
I 3rd the motion on CCleaner... it does a good job and is free!
Glary Utilities. Check it out on CNET.com website.
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
also does a better job of uninstalling stuff you do not use than MS add/remove programs.
Then use CCleaner to delete unwanted cookies, temp files, temp internet cache etc. Don't use it to do Registry cleaning. That's possibly troublesome.
Then go back to "My Computer" and let the Windows wizard tell you whether you need to defrag. You likely do. That can speed things up for you.
I run CCleaner.
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Works every time!
You could try picasa, goodle’s picture gatherer and then when you find them all delete them.
I have stuff from 3 computers stored on an outside hard drive and last night I did a search for all my jpg’s because I didn’t know where some photos were. The search came up with 10,000. A lot were dupes but there were a lot of icon jpg’s
There is nothing faster or easier. When you add the time you've spent already, to the time you will spend fooling around with half-solutions, starting over is a better bet in 99% of cases.
Important: Do a FULL DISK IMAGE copy first, so that you can selectively restore any files you actually wanted, later. And of course verify the backup before you re-install.
But don't waste your time trying to scrape the mud off a pig just so you can smear lipstick on it. The Windows installation on the drive is crap. Start over.
I say that as someone who has done many hundreds of installations of Windows in the past 10 years, both personal and professional, and who now runs the IT department at my company.
Of course, you might be in the 1% where there's something SO PRECIOUS in the existing installation that you can't copy it off somewhere, and can never reproduce it. But I doubt it.
Any good freeware tools to increase RAM? Like RAM recovery? I had System Mechanic but it is old.
Thanks.
Revo Uninstaller to get rid of programs and files
“Any idiot proof freeware to clean off jpgs from celeb pics and news pics?”
I’m not sure there is any program that is going to clean off specific files that aren’t associated with malware. Best way is just to do a search on *.jpg on the hard drive and then delete them. Be careful, you might delete JPGs that are supposed to be there. After deletion, then you can run a defrag or other program to clean up the hard drive.
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I like CleanUp! (free) and Registry Mechanic. You need to use both.
One additional idea — does this machine run Internet Explorer 6? If so, IE6 defaults to a massive cache size. Clear the cache and change the size to something more reasonable.