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Background info:
I have a brand new pc (Compaq, you may have seen the pictures) with windows 8, with ideas from several of you I have a KVM switch and all is well.............so I thought.

What I have been doing
Nothing much really, installed open office, AVG, zone alarm, eurdora, spybot search and destroy, fire fox, magix video editing suite.
I only really use it for video editing / uploading to youtube. (I only have open office so I can open read upload info from my other pc) I have removed norton anti virus that comes pre installed on a new pc.

The problem
Didn't really notice it at first, but at start up / shut down the speakers made no "noise / tune" (as windows is supposed to)
Play a video, I get what ever noise / music that there should be, so its not a speaker / settings issue.
The other day I uploaded a YT clip of my new air compressor (its in the tools section of this forum) What I didn't say at the time was that it took about 5 attempts to upload it from magix, Normally magix only takes a few minutes to process things, then upload.
But last night I was trying to install spybot and the pc just stopped. (hanging) in desperation I pulled the supply (external power supply on this pc) when I plugged it back, it was as if the pc thought it was brand new, (I say this because of the "configuring windows screen that was showing") it then started to run as it used to.

The question
Is there a programme I can buy / or is free, that cleans out all the crud etc? (Or is that not what I need) I know I have spybot, but that is for malware (isn't it?) I was thinking that if I "cleaned the pc" every so often it would prevent (I hope) the pc from slowing / hanging. Its not a problem on THIS pc with win xp. (apart from when I had to format the HD, but that's another story) I have two pc's remember.

Or to put it another way, what "housekeeping" do you do on your pc. (And before you mention it, yes, I can use the compressor to blow all the dust out of both pc's)

Thanks for reading.

I think this is what you want/need.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

got that too.

someone-else wrote: got that too.

You need to run it now and again!



Try the Piriform de-fragger too.

If any more than that's required I'll have to leave it to the geeks.

If it's new, was it actually configuring updates - then it hit the desktop? This is just part of the Windows Update process, if it was. Normal.

As for the hanging/crashing - not normal, obviously.

If all you are really doing is the stuff you list above (not that you have to answer to anyone), then you SERIOUSLY shouldn't be *NEEDING* all the search and destroy stuff, registry cleaners, tune-up stuff. In honestly, it can often do more harm than good - don't care what anyone tells you. I think it's crazy when you see the list of things people reel off and then go on to slate Windows, Microsoft, etc.

My desktop is Windows 8 and I'm running Windows defender - nothing more. It's perfectly fine. I've got a wide range of software packages installed and don't have any issues, same with my work laptop (Windows 7 and takes a serious amount of abuse, it's used for travel/work/development so always has beta/test/alpha coded stuff on it). Don't have any issues.

Where are you getting your software from? Are you downloading torrents, 'free' stuff, movies, other stuff?

Did you have problems when you first got it, or was there something that coincided with the trouble?

BG

All I have downloaded is as mentioned above.

It seems to have started some time before I uploaded the video of my compressor. Prior to that I have uploaded a couple more clips to YT, that's it. I use the PC I am typing on now for everything else. (windows XP, avg, zone alarm, its fine)

same here BG,
i'll put spy bot on other peoples pc's to clean the crud off but never needed it on my own windows 7 machine.

windows 8 shouldn't need these clean up programs if your not installing software from dubious sources.

the start up noise, has anything been changed in your themes? i think the noise is tied to the theme your running (least it was in the past, not played on windows 8 much)

and the other thing i can think of, codecs! if you've installed codec packs, they can mess up a machine,
i did this to my own on the last install and it wouldn't play certain video's after, doubt it'd affect an upload to youtube but it'd affect any local video editing, such as your magix ?

Just to add to other posts, new pc`s often come with lots of unwanted software, trial anti virus, office etc.
You could try something like this to help get rid.
http://pcdecrapifier.com/
I`d set a restore point before using, just in case you delete something you shouldn`t have.
gpick.

If it's still not working, use the Windows 8 refresh feature.....will drop the OS over the top quickly without damaging the stuff installed.