I received an email from Dennis the other day and he wondered, “My Dell is several years old and getting very slow.  Perhaps running a register optimizer would help, but there are dozens available.”  He wanted to know if I had any suggestions.

Well, it just so happens that this week I was checking my wife’s computer for running very slowly and found a good application which a friend of mine had recommended.  It is called, “Advanced SystemCare 3” where you may download a free version.

There are several maintenance applications based within this one, one of which is a register optimizer.  The three main areas of ASC3 are “Maintain Windows”, “Diagnose System” and “Utilities” and under each of those you will find a glut of apps to run that may help out your computer.

“Maintain Windows” will give you the ability to remove spyware, run a registry fixer, start a privacy check and finally clean up unneeded (junk) files on your system.  All of which are intelligent things to do to keep your computer running well.

The second area of the program, “Diagnose System” contains programs for system optimizations, security defense, defragmenting your disk and analyzing the security of your computer.

Finally, the third step related to “Utilities” would be a couple of important items: disk cleaning, smart defrag (which needs to first be downloaded from the same site…also free of charge) and a register defragger.  There are also several other good maintenance applications you should run under this utility area; however, the ones that I mentioned are, in my opinion, the most important.

The “Smart Defrag” application which I mentioned that needs downloading seems to work faster and maybe even a little better than the defrag program built into windows.  It also allows you to set it to run at a repetitive cycle daily, weekly, monthly, etc. which surely comes in handy.

Make sure when you start the process that you have some time to invest.  Some of the modules run for less than a minute.  However, some of them ran an hour or so on my computer and it slowed down the rest of the system, but only while it was running.

I asked my wife her thoughts on how running these processes on her computer affected its operation.  She said that it was 100% faster than it was before I ran them, so hopefully this group of programs can help Dennis and others of you too.  Let me know what you think after you run it.

I also feel like I have to run a disclaimer when I talk about a program that adjusts your computer, so here it is.  Use this product at your own risk.  I have run it on three computers and all of them run significantly better than before but I suppose there could always be some risk involved.

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