After giving us the Smart Defrag utility, here’s another excellent tool from IObit : Advanced Systemcare.

Advanced Systemcare is a user friendly application for cleaning up and optimizing your computer. The interface is simple to navigate and results are powerful. It provides a convenient UI for non-technical folks to perform routine computer maintenance activities and apply system optimization techniques without seeking professional help!

Some of the features of this app:

• Powerful Hard Drive Defragmentation.
• Equipped to clean registries of any Windows XP/Vista/7 OS computers.
• Spyware and Adware removal.
• Boosts system performance with the powerful free XP registry cleaner by cleaning missing files, destroying unwanted files, deleting obsolete files, and removing junk files. Supports deep-cleansing of more than 50 types of junk files.
• Free up RAM with one click.
• Optimizes & compacts the Windows registry.

Advanced Systemcare is a must have application and can also help schedule regular computer maintenance activities.

Here are some screenshots:

From the main menu, all one has to do is to click on the “Care” button and let the program handle the rest.

Advanced Scanning:

Problems automatically fixed:

Some manual options available for the user to choose from:

Free up RAM with one click!

Advanced Systemcare provides a comprehensive one click solution to clean up, optimize your computer. Try out the free version and judge the systems capabilities yourself. The screenshots above are of the PRO version which is retails at $19.95.

For starters, please visit the basic computer maintenance post and see if you’ve taken care of all the steps listed there.

Assuming you’ve taken the basic steps, do the following to speed up your computer:

1) Open up the task manager and click on process to show all users.
2) Sort Descending on the CPU column and check out which process is continuously hoging CPU cycles.
3) If it’s an application that you can terminate(non-system process), right click on the task and click on “End Process”.

The steps mentioned above will temporarily bring your system back in control. Next:

Go to Start -> Run -> Type “msconfig” and press enter. In the system startup process tab, disable all the processes which are not needed to be started at system booting. Common programs include but not limited to – Messengers, Media players etc…

Use this tool  SpeedUpMyPC2009 to speed up your computer further.

These steps should give you a good start and should speed up your computer noticeably.