Dial-A-Fix

[WildHorse]

I've used it on a couple of computers in the last month, & it has helped.

It basically restores default settings for parameters that you'd spend a long time pinpointing as trouble sources on your own.

Maybe others will also find it helpful.

At bottom of the gui there's a "tools" icon that takes you into a menu of useful tools, having well-explained effects.

website

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[eplebnista]

Thanks for the links! :thumbsup:

 

[Stg-Flame]

My brother has been having major slow-down problems on his Stock 06 Gateway recently. I took a look at it the other day and found about 20 Processes running in the background that I had never seen before. I checked them out at www.Processlibrary.com and it said that they were all required for his system to run stable.

Would this tool help find out his slow-down problems or is there another that I could use to avoid having to reformat it for him?

 

[WildHorse]

As for the Dial-A-Fix tool, it's not really for that, but wouldn't hurt anything, and may even fix something you don't know is broken.

Slowdown most likely is due to spybots.

Ideas to address the slowdown:
(a) Run a spywear cleaner like Lavasoft Ad-Aware or other one of your preference,
(b) run a "safe" registry cleaner like the free version of EasyCleaner or any other one you like,
(c) good thorough virus scan like Kaspersky or other,
(d) run Windows Disk Cleanup utility
(e) Run defrag
(f) put in some tweaks to speed up Windows.

(g) Additionally. there are several good tweaks you can put in to speed up Firefox available on the Firefox web site here too; and other sites.

(h) Put in a hosts file and update it every 2 weeks to fend off future spybots from worming in there.