My computer is running slow what steps can I do to fix it?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Sigh. If you had bothered to read what I wrote you may have been able to understand my comments on the marketing blurb; rephrased in case I was unclear:
Comments after "I'd be wary...actually hurt performance." are specifically directed at the picture evoked in the marketing language (I thought that was clear from quoting the bits I refer to). Of course you can appreciate hyperbole as well as the fact that -apart from mentioned ‘registry cleanup’; and ‘defragmentation’- there is no concrete mention of features or anything: you have to make do with ‘tweaks’. I am sorry but that is like a Windows shop selling me 7 with the slogan ‘it manages hardware [in general]’. Terribly vague if not entirely useless.

Apart from that: yes, I happen to be wary of trusting products that are accompanied by ill-informed (clogging memory) and poorly worded phrases (removing software).

Especially if the bulk (as advertised) of what these do (as advertised) refers to things that should not be done with other applications running in the foreground if you want to ‘optimize’ performance. And doubly so since most of the finer details appear to amount to little but a GUI on top of settings controlled via administrative utilities available to the Administrator. Try running "Services.msc" as Administrator...

As an aside this (fixing the setting to a value) is positively retarded: http://www.auslogics.com/en/products...ges/shot03.png

As a more casual aside: try this ‘speed boost’ program on a 5 year old ‘laptop’ machine featuring: (WinXP); 512MB RAM; Celeron 1.2Ghz or thereabouts; 120GB disk; integrated (Intel) graphics; generic b/g wifi. Then note what works better: ‘speed boost’; upgrading hard disk; upgrading RAM; or switching OS/filesystem to something that does not employ NTFS and similar. The cheapest? The last. The best for performance? The last as well.