Probably pointless in me asking this.....

[Techno]

Ta, Fred.

What I believe slows this sad old machine down most is Norton.
They seem to be forever updating 'extra' stuff..(not just anti virus bits and bobs)....or downloading brand new security measures....."For my protection".
I don't actually feel I need some of the new stuff....But they still download it.

The old processor probably has troubles coping with it.
Hey Ho ! 
Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

You can probably disable it - and just use Windows Defender. Doubly so if you're about to junk it anyway

[Techno]

Well......

Mr sledgehammer has nearly come out of the shed !!

To try and sort a few odds and sods out, I noticed that the "Speedupmypc" prog was telling me that it was running on 'another user's' part of the disc.

No it bloody isn't !....Anyway go to the 'other user' 'bit'....Oooh...a little window saying "There are unused shortcut icons on the desktop...Wanna get rid of them ?"..
Oh all right then...Virtually everything disappears.
Swap user......**** me.....Where have half the icons gone on the 'normal' drive we use 99.999999% of the time, gone.
Fair do's....There were a few spurious shortcuts there...But it took out things that I used half an hour ago.

I HATE this bl**dy thing. 

Cheers - Phil.
PS - Will I'm trying to send you a mail.....I hope it leaves here THIS time !!!

[Fenton]

The Program speed up my PC gets some really bad reviews

[Ithoriel]

If it is actually "Speedupmypc" no wonder you're having problems.

I keep having to remove it from my Dad's PC as it seems to be bundled with other things he wants in a way that means you can't have one without the other. If it's not actually malware it's pretty damn close IMHO.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

PS - Will I'm trying to send you a mail.....I hope it leaves here THIS time !!!

Got, replied, yes, please, thank, you!

[toxicpixie]

"speedupmypc" is malware, simply put... anything like that is generally unhelpful at best

[Fenton]

The only one I use now is CC Cleaner

[Ithoriel]

I have SlimCleaner on my own PC and CCleaner on my Dad's and on a friend's laptop that I help with fairly regularly.

[Techno]

Thanks chaps.
It seemed to be a help originally....But now I'm getting to the point that in my  opinion that it does very little to help......In fact I think it may be causing more problems than it's solving.

It's SpeedUpMyPC, rather than Speedupmypc if that makes any difference.
Are the others free ? 
Time to uninstall then.

Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

c cleaner and slim cleaner are free  malware bytes if you dont have it is worth getting as well

[Techno]

SpeedUpMyPC.....Uninstalled.....Plus all the little bits that I could find that didn't get removed.
Uninstaller, my bottom !

Free CC Cleaner downloaded and run.....That found 3/4 of a Gb of poop.
Thanks for all the help chaps.
More downloading to do later then. 
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Not sure if your using Firefox or Chrome or whatever but it might be worth checking to see that all your drivers are up to date

On C Cleaner there is a registry cleaner as well though all it does is delete obselete entries, but can clean out old installer extensions etc ( I only mention this as it took me about 4 months to notice it when I first installed it)

[Techno]

Thanks Steve.

It's 'Chrome' now...I'll have a check a bit later.
Cheers - Phil.

[Techno]

Just to say, that I think this old PC has realized that it's at the last chance saloon, now.....Since I uninstalled SpeedUpMyPC and replaced it with CCCleaner, it's running SO much better.....But that doesn't alter the fact that it will be replaced in a few weeks time. ........Huzzah !!!
Cheers - Phil