Please suggest good free utilities

tierra · 08-23-2009, 07:40 AM

I'm running WinXP on an old computer. I've tried startuplite, but it doesn't works so well. A little over a week ago, a tech at the local University took control of my computer and added several programs, which did make the computer run faster; however, the computer crashed shortly after with BSD and wouldn't even boot into safe mode. When I went to reinstall windows all the space on my hard drive was free. I had run both McAfee Security system and Malwarebytes just before logging off the day before, so don't think was a virus. The tech had added Glary, some defraging program, and other things, that I uninstalled (like the new google browser) without really asking me. I did leave the Glary and defraging program.
Any ideas on good and safe programs to speed up my computer, limit startup, clean it up and defrag it?
Thank you.

zetaka · 08-27-2009, 11:29 PM

I use Glary Utilities to keep mu PC speed up.
If you have kept Glary and Defragging program, and have run them but doesn't work, you may try malware/spyware removers.

tierra · 08-28-2009, 06:44 AM

Thank you. I thought that maybe the Glary had something to do with the computer crash so I didn't reload it when I load programs onto my computer.

08-23-2009, 07:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
tierra Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Posts: 126 OS: win xp	Please suggest good free utilities I'm running WinXP on an old computer. I've tried startuplite, but it doesn't works so well. A little over a week ago, a tech at the local University took control of my computer and added several programs, which did make the computer run faster; however, the computer crashed shortly after with BSD and wouldn't even boot into safe mode. When I went to reinstall windows all the space on my hard drive was free. I had run both McAfee Security system and Malwarebytes just before logging off the day before, so don't think was a virus. The tech had added Glary, some defraging program, and other things, that I uninstalled (like the new google browser) without really asking me. I did leave the Glary and defraging program. Any ideas on good and safe programs to speed up my computer, limit startup, clean it up and defrag it? Thank you. Last edited by tierra; 08-23-2009 at 07:41 AM.

08-27-2009, 11:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
zetaka Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 4 OS: xp	Re: Please suggest good free utilities I use Glary Utilities to keep mu PC speed up. If you have kept Glary and Defragging program, and have run them but doesn't work, you may try malware/spyware removers.

08-28-2009, 06:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
tierra Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Posts: 126 OS: win xp	Re: Please suggest good free utilities Thank you. I thought that maybe the Glary had something to do with the computer crash so I didn't reload it when I load programs onto my computer.