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newshound writes
On 29/07/2015 23:02, David Lang wrote:
Hi

New laptop is already starting to run slowly. Piggin Windows 8.


I used to have Norton 360 which had various function to do disc clean
up, defrag etc.

Not sure if Norton 360 still has those functions? Don't like the price
of it either.

Anyone recommend a download that will clean up & improve speed?


I gave up reading all the posts half way through the "Linus" thread so
someone else may have already said this.

The newsreader I use (Turnpike) has a split thread facility so you can
put OT branches into a separate thread.
Unfortunately thanks to MS failing to support 32 bit explorer after
encouraging developers to use it, it won't run on 64 bit Windows so I
run W732 bit just to keep it.
I would suggest running ccleaner, particularly the "cleaner" and the
"registry cleaner" options, and malwarebytes.

Both free, both reliable IMHO. The usual caveat applies when
downloading to watch that you don't inadvertently click to download
other stuff, and you don't agree to use Ask or to change your default
search engine.

--
bert