Is Your Windows Vista or XP Slow

[boro_boy]

I've speeded my vista up loads. Download these program, run them and then and then your pc will be a lot quicker at everything:

CCleaner
RegCure - FREE SCAN / Purchase to fix
Defraggler

Also search "speed up windows" on youtube and follow the many tutorials that are on there.

[suryan]

Win Vista is faster then WinXp but the i like winXp as I am use to it.

[gornalwolves1]

I've speeded my vista up loads. Download these program, run them and then and then your pc will be a lot quicker at everything:
CCleaner
RegCure - FREE SCAN / Purchase to fix
Defraggler
Also search "speed up windows" on youtube and follow the many tutorials that are on there.

I use similar Tune-Up Utilities 2009, ccleaner and defragger

[Vidic]

Vista's class, it took a while to get used to everything but it's always been quick and reliable for me. I've had Ccleaner for a while, used it last night and got rid of 660mb of junk

[Kasper]

What I find works well is Disk Cleanup (system tool), then CCleaner, then run a tool called Eraser. Programs like CCleaner just put the crap in the bin. Eraser takes the trash out

[boro_boy]

CCleaner doesn't put it in the bin? Bin as in Recycle bin? CCleaner removes it all including stuff in the recycle bin

[Kasper]

Nah, puts it in the bin as in deletes it - including emptying the recycle bin. Crap phrasing to be honest but I wasn't sure how else to put it.

[boro_boy]

Ah eraser totally removes it from the hard drive?

All CCleaner does is removes the index of the files and folders.

Think of your hard drive as a book. Ccleaner removes the front page (the index page) so you can still recover files but with special programs like recuva. Eraser will WIPE the space so the book will have no index or pages .

[Kasper]

It's impossible to completely remove data from a disk. You can, however, continually overwrite it, which makes it harder and harder to access. It's something like 7 overwrites to make it any sort of challenge for a forensic examiner to find it. You can set CCleaner to do 35 overwrites I think. That's what I've got mine set to. Once data is on a disk, the only way to get rid of it is to destroy the disk. As in crush it, smash it, etc.

[gornalwolves1]

It's impossible to completely remove data from a disk. You can, however, continually overwrite it, which makes it harder and harder to access. It's something like 7 overwrites to make it any sort of challenge for a forensic examiner to find it. You can set CCleaner to do 35 overwrites I think. That's what I've got mine set to. Once data is on a disk, the only way to get rid of it is to destroy the disk. As in crush it, smash it, etc.

Any link for this Eraser please??

[Kasper]

http://eraser.heidi.ie/index.php#download

[gornalwolves1]

http://eraser.heidi.ie/index.php#download

Nice one, i'll have a try of that

[boro_boy]

Oh right I thought you could completely remove it.

In that case surely your hard drive can hold more than it says it can?

What I mean by that is say mine it 250gig if I fill it, then overwrite everything again filling it again. What your saying is everything can be found on the drive what was originally on it? If thats the case surely you have 500gig of info on the disk?

[Kasper]

In theory, yes. Think of each overwrite and bit of data put on a specific bit of space on the disk as a layer. In the scenario you give, you'd have the original 250GB, the overwrite, and the second 250GB.