My PC is Slow… Can These “Speed Up” Tools Fix it?

My aunt has Panda Cleanup. When I asked her if it is any good she replied “I like Pandas 🐼”. Can’t argue with that logic…

My grandpa refused to replace his DYING hard drive that was causing is relatively "okay" pc to be nearly unusably slow. He was just going to replace his whole PC when it finally died. Me, being the person that knew they were going to get called when that happened, decided to upgrade him to an SSD without telling him. Now he complains his PC is too fast. You literally can't win with old people.

From real-world experience, a loved one that is calling for computer help isn't calling for help updating drivers, deleting startup items, or any of that. They call when something that was working stops working (usually a printer). Then you, the family's reluctant tech support, sits down at or remotes into their computer and are shocked and disgusted at the state of things and want to grab them by the shoulders and shake them violently while screaming "HOW DO YOU TOLERATE THIS?!?!" and suddenly the scope of your support call has broadened drastically. (then 3 months later something goes wrong on their computer and you get a call that starts with "Something you did...")

It's crazy how marketing can mislead people into buying software that essentially duplicates built-in Windows features, often worse. Always remember a lot can be achieved with built-in tools sparing your wallet unnecessary damage.

Spent years with CCleaner, or as we used to say CC Cleaner. Lol.

Oh God, IOBIT. I remember an older version that decided my desktop was "junk documents" and cleared out my homework word docs. Not recycling bin, full delete, and had to rescue disk what I could.

I want to say that I just love how you guys make your own stock footage. It really shows production value and love for the craft. And they're also way better than generic stock footage

Thanks for taking the time to slow down and explain the graphs rather than jiust flashing them up on screen and expecting us to make sense of them in under 5 seconds.

As for the fomo tactics, I'm so glad that EU introduced a solution to this: any sale or limited offer needs to come with a "lowest price in last 30 days", so if they had the same "limited offer" forever, they need to show you that this price isn't anything special.

I have a video idea. There are lots of poorly written softwares out there. That even after uninstalling remain in your registry. One of the most annoying software like this is the new ASUS suite. Terrible to get out of your pc. Even after multiple tries fragments still lingered. Ultimately I had to do a reinstall of windows. A video about getting clean uninstalls would be greatly informative and appreciated.

I have the ultimate PC speed-up: install a lightweight Linux distro :)

Missed a significant factor: do they break or remove stuff you actually want to keep.

More than 10 years ago, I used to work in a computer repair shop and CCleaner was one of the best tools in my arsenal. I don't know how it is these days

Nothing beats the Browser "Toolbar" era for bogged down computers. I don't even know if you can come close unless you turn on every Windows Telemetry spyware "feature".

I'm so glad you addressed the marketing tactics. These issues are across the board and drive me crazy!

Also one thing to note that would make the PC slower is using disk cleanup for temp files to often. Temp files do make your PC faster and constantly removing them, forces the programs to make them new. A program might build an index or caches some work in the temp files, so it can look for them the next time its started and use these files. One example would be thumbnails. A thumbnail is just a smaller size version of that picture or any file, that is good enough for a preview. I would suggest to start a cleanup run when your drive turns red in the explorer. When it happens more than once per month and you can't make out the culprit (downloads folder, games) and think about cleaning your drive up (not just cleaning a specific place like downloads or uninstalling games), think about a new drive. When your drive is at the last few gigs, your PC will get slower and might even refuse to do updates. Also keep an eye out for the ram usage. When its close to max, it gets messy. Windows will start to use your drive as ram and that is slow and when you only have a HDD, its dead slow and you might think its stuck. When this happens at boot up, boot into recovery mode and uninstall some shit. Had this once with one of our office PCs (its used for training for our customers) and it was Dell and Avira doing their stuff and hitting max on the RAM. The PC wasn't well maintained and was unused for quite some time and probably both thought they now must keep up and do a lot of stuff. It was unusable at this point.

Elijah, I wish the best for you and Sydney. You seem very happy together.

Cleaning software is like walking a downtown China street market with everyone yelling discounts to buy from them. 😂

I really liked that OpenWRT router ad. I didn't knew there were those kind of things of sale nowadays, looks like a good product, and probably get plenty of people on the rabbit hole of what DD-WRT were and are, which is good 🙂

CCleaner. Now that's a blast from the past. Glad to see they are as good as when i first used it in the 2000's