Tutorials on how to clean up your computer

You may wonder sometimes that you computer suddenly slowing down that is just only a sign that their is something wrong with your computer, like you hard drive is infected with adware, its very easy to know if theres an adware in you pc... they keep on puffing out of your monitor which is very annoying .another reason why is slows down,
dust, poor ventilation, insufficient hardware, damaged hardware, registry errors, disk fragmentation, malware, too many start-up programs, insufficient disk space, and junk files.

hope this information below will you solve your problem... don't forget to give you comments

All the following are FREE (Downloads can be found at Download.com)

A cool program I like to run before performing system slowing tasks - SmartClose
This program closes out of most unnecessary running tasks and programs, you can add tasks you want to keep running to a list. Programs can be restored upon request or at the next computer boot.

Uninstall unused programs, update your computer regularly, update obsolete or old programs.

Run Disk Cleanup - Start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools> Disk Cleanup

Run Disk Defragmenter - Start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools> Disk Deframenter

Remove Programs from Startup - Start> Run> msconfig
--Click on the Startup tab and uncheck the boxes of programs unnecessary to run at startup

Install and Run ONE Antivirus Program (Can cause system to slow down if the shield is active)
--AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition http://www.grisoft.com/
*--Avast Anti-Virus Home Edition http://www.avast.com/
--Avira Anti-Virus http://www.free-av.com/

Install and Run Anti-Spyware (Can cause system to slow down if the shield is active)
*--Spybot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/
*--Spyware Terminator http://www.spywareterminator.com/
--AdAware http://www.lavasoft.com/
*--Spyware Blaster

Install and Run System Optimization tool
*--Ccleaner (Strongly Recommended) http://www.ccleaner.com/
*--Advanced WindowsCare http://www.iobit.com/
--Glary Utilities http://www.glaryutilities.com/
*--Auslogics Registry Defrag http://www.auslogics.com/

To Maintain Your Systems Safety a Firewall is Recommended (Can cause system to slow down if the shield is active)
*--Comodo
--Zonealarm

* = Favorites

If all this fails then you need new hardware/upgrades or you need to format/reinstall your hard drive/operating system.