From time to time I come across links to 'free trial' versions of programs designed to clean up my hard drive, remove errors in my registry files, and unclog my start-ups among other things.
I use my computer as much as I drive my car, and I know about as much about what is under the hood in one as the other. Just so you understand, my dad was a mechanic, but I am a first generation computer user. No guesses on my age please, but I was very proud of my 8088, thank you!
The last clean-up/speed-up program that has come to my attention found three hundred and eighteen errors of which it generously fixed 20 before asking me to pay to download the full product. It is no great surprise, I suppose, that four of the errors it found were leftovers from the last clenup/speed-up programs I have used over the three years that I have been 'driving' this computer.
Which, if any of these programs do you suggest? Do you know if any of them have caused harm? I really do think it is time to blow out the carbon on this machine.
Eileen Musser, Realtor, ePro, EcoBroker
Lancaster and York, Pa
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