Free Computer check up programs.

[Phaeton Knight]

Just a list of programs I use to keep my Laptop running properly.

Anti-Virus:

AVG Free edition: Work great, just set a time for it to auto scan your computer, and it pretty much runs itself.

free.avg.com/us-en/download-free-antivirus


Program Cleaners
Advance System Care: Tweaks your computer systems and helps things run better. Has several other free components you can download, all are fairly useful.

www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.html


C(rap) Cleaner: Useful for quickly deleting junk files, and cleaning up your cookie cache. Can select what cookies you don't want deleted.

download.cnet.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10547048.html



Malware/Spyware Blockers & Removers
Ad-Aware: use it about once a month to see if anythig particularly nasty has wormed it's way onto the computer.

www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php


MalwareBytes: Same as above.

download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?part=dl-10804572&subj=dl&tag=button


Super Anti-Spyware: Same as above, but takes less time to run and finds lots of little issue others may miss.

www.superantispyware.com/download.html



Registry Tweakers
Uniblue Registry Booster (free version): Some of the above programs fix registry errors, but this will also do a deep scan and look for problems the others don't look for.

This should be the proper download for the free version. It took a while for me to find the one I use, so I can't be sure.
download.cnet.com/Registry-Booster-2011/3000-2094_4-10510869.html




I suggest people use at least 3 of these. never hurts to have back up programs scanning for the same issues. What sneaks past one will be caught by the others.

Feel free to suggest your own programs as well.

[Lita Kino]

AVG also do a tune-up program designed to work with their anti-viral software, it helps keep the machine running smoothly and efficiently. It takes care of registry errors, cookies, tells you if you need a defrag, the works pretty much.

Just go to the AVG website, and you'll probably find a link somewhere connected to the anti-viral stuff. Or download the AVG free edition and you can take it from there.

But the tune-up's only free once, which is a pain, but it works really well so is well worth the anual cost.

[Lita Kino]

lol, it's ok, Luke's laptop is officially haunted; it spent all day yesterday doing what it wanted behind my back instead of what i wanted, even deleted a post, so i had to put a comment above the next to explain what had happened and what i'd said/done.