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[duggs]

Agreed !

Windows 7 does, somehow, do a fine job of keeping such rubbish away from cocking up the system though.

[Xplicit 2.0]

Agreed !

Windows 7 does, somehow, do a fine job of keeping such rubbish away from cocking up the system though.

without trying to offend people, but i would say its more down to the person using the computer... the OS wont really matter. Again, not trying to offend anyone, but someone who knows how to use a computer, and this day n age its us young'ns, will know these things. :-/

[duggs]

To a point you are correct. If a PC is JUST used for business type applications then yes...it should always run happily.

BUT..in a home..they are not. Just based on "day to day" running, doing all the things that modern PC's are able to do, your operating system WILL suffer. It just depends to what degree.

I would almost guarantee you that as soon as you start surfin' "programs" attach themselves to you system. Odds are that you wouldn't even know, all seems fine for the time being, perhaps for ages, but stuff is plonked on your PC without you having a clue.

Spybot is a great little program to seek some of them out. I'll clean the PC using Spybot, will surf some completly "legit" sites and 10 mins later, Spybot will find some back again. Most are harmless BUT some will slowly strangle your system....and some my even kill yer PC completely. As I say, XP seemed to be especially prone. Windows 7 seems to have them licked.

Nowadays PC's are true multi-media devices and in our case, a "window to the world" for a whole host of reasons...Business, games, movies, music, you name it..it does the lot.

As a result, "crap" just "sneaks" onto them, some obvious, some not, and slowly, over time they can grind to a halt. I found XP to be the worst. Vista was better on a desktop machine BUT Windows 7 is the business..Love it !

[Broomies Mate]

CCleaner is a great tool to use... also if you are fortunate enough to have a friend who has already bought these tools, or u can get your work to buy them (or depending what you need them for etc etc), the Uniblue range is great... SpeedUpMyPC, RegistryBooster, DriverScanner and DiskRescue. i use 3 out of the 4 on a daily at work to keep things running smooth

You seem relatively knowledgeable, so I take it you don't bother with these useless TSR applications on your own computer(s)?

They are a complete waste of time.... They use more system resources than a plethora of Adware/Spyware.

Avoid at all costs.

[Plomien]

I use spybot also but I have found tune up utilities to be excellent and gives you 30 days free trial and is simple to use

[Squealey]

For my computer it really seemed to slow down when I fitted Avast Anti Virus.

With regards to not downloading games etc, although I dont and I tell my kids till im blue in the face not to, at the end of the day they are 13 and 15 and sometimes they just will.

One program I did download was called something like treefell free (it definitly had a tree in the title anyway), and I found this most usefull as it goes through every folder and tells you which ones are using the most memory. Managed to clear up a load on my Vista laptop with that.