Rejuvenate Your Personal Computer

Free programs are available for download that will allow non-technical users to both secure, speed up, and dramatically reduce the amount of time that it takes for their personal computer to load upon start up. Further, you will gain control over your computer security, all for free, without the use of any paid plan, such as those being offered by AOL or Verizon.

Rejuvenate Personal Computers with 10 Free Programs

A lot of these programs are multipurpose in nature. The basic functions performed by them are personal computer security, hard disk maintenance, and registry cleaning. Some of them are designed to be loaded into the system tray / notification area so that they are constantly running in the background. Others are designed to be used periodically or as a scanner; while a few of them work both ways.

Registry Cleaners

Even though there is some overlap between these free utilities, in the case of the free Registry Cleaners you will always want to be using a multiple program layered approach to the cleaning of your registry. Each program checks for different things and approaches the registry from a different perspective. Collectively, they work better together at cleaning your computer registry than most paid commercial registry cleaners do.

The net effect of using these top ten personal computer programs is the rejuvenation of older used computers to a like new state. A used or older personal computer will both load faster and operate as fast as a new computer would. Further, you will gain control over your personal computer security, all for free, without the use of any paid plan, such as those being offered by AOL or Verizon.

There is far too much material, here, then can be covered comfortably in just one post. So, each recommended program will eventually be covered in more specific detail in a separate post of its own.

Download Programs that will Rejuvenate Your Personal Computer

Many of these programs come in a paid or pro version. So, you should always be sure to download only the free version. In many cases, locating the correct download link is quite a chore, as you will have to wade through a lot of advertisements for commercial programs that they are trying to trick you into buying.

To make it easy for everyone to download these free programs I have direct download links listed for all eleven of these programs in the right sidebar of the Rejuvenation Category Page on this SEO blog. Be prepared to immediately download files when you click on these links.

Advanced SystemCare

Personal Computer Scanner

Secondary Registry Cleaner

What’s great about the Advanced SystemCare utility is that it is a collection of programs, functions, or utilities that are presented in a well designed user interface. It is a great multipurpose comprehensive PC care utility.

You will be using this program to perform routine personal computer maintenance, mostly as a scanner. A variety of different functions are performed. You can set it up so that one click will start the scanning for both the maintain windows, and diagnose system features. The utility window offers features that can be selectively run periodically.

Smart Defrag

Smart Defrag is really another part of the Advanced SystemCare utility that requires a separate download. It is used on a periodic basis to defrag or maintain all your hard disks.

Smart Defrag operates up to 10 times faster than the defrag utility provided by Windows XP.

Argente – Registry Cleaner

Primary Registry Cleaner

Argente Registry Cleaner will be used on a regular periodic basis to clean and repair the bulk of all the problems that have developed over the years in the Windows registry of your personal computer.

Avira AntiVir Personal

Primary AntiVirus Software

As the name suggests, Avira AntiVir Personal is AntiVirus software that will automatically be loaded into the system tray / notification area so that it is constantly running in the background upon the start up of your personal computer. You can also use it to periodically scan your computer for viruses.

CCleaner

Junk Files / Privacy / Cookies Cleaner

Secondary Registry Cleaner

Once you start getting picky about what junk files you want deleted, you will soon realize that this is the one area where you really do not want any overlap between these programs. Thus, some of them contain a junk file, privacy, or cookies cleaner option that should always be turned off in order to avoid conflict.

I recommend the use of just CCleaner to periodically remove all the junk files on your computer. The Disk Cleaner program provided by Windows XP is both slow and too broad in its approach to cleaning temporary junk files off of personal computers.

Using only one utility to perform this function means that you will only have to configure one program, rather than half a dozen different ones.

CCleaner is also one of your secondary registry cleaners.

Glary Utilities

PC Maintenance

Secondary Registry Cleaner

Startup Manager

Disk Analysis

Glary Utilities is a collection of programs, functions, or utilities that are presented in a well designed user interface. It is another great multipurpose comprehensive PC care utility.

Gary’s best features are its startup manager and disk analysis utility. Use of a good startup manager will help to free up a lot of valuable RAM memory.

Its disk analysis feature will show you which of your files and folders are taking up most of your used disk space.

Glary Utilities will be regularly used as one of your best secondary registry cleaners.

Spybot Search & Destroy

Spyware Scanner

Spybot – Search & Destroy should be used to scan your personal computer in order to initially detect and remove spyware from your used personal computer. It is also great for periodically insuring that your computer stays clean.

However, running it in the background is way too irritating to use. And, will only get in your way. Thus, Spybot – Search & Destroy should be set up so that it is NOT automatically loaded into the system tray / notification area.

SuperAntiSpyware

Personal Computer Scanner

SuperAntiSpyware will automatically be loaded into the system tray / notification area so that it is constantly running in the background upon the start up of your personal computer. You will also use it to periodically scan your personal computer for spyware, adware, malware, Trojans, dialers, and worms.

Sygate Personal Firewall

Software Firewall

The Sygate Personal Firewall will be used to replace the firewall that might have come with your installed version of Windows XP. It will automatically be loaded into the system tray / notification area so that it is constantly running in the background.

All software firewall programs have a bad habit of getting in your way. You will just have to adjust to Sygate periodically interrupting your work with its various notices, as the use of a good software firewall program is required for strong computer security. Sygate works better and is less intrusive than most of what is out there. And, it is also free.

ThreatFire AntiVirus

Secondary AntiVirus Software

ThreatFire is NOT a personal computer scanner. It will automatically be loaded into the system tray / notification area so that it is constantly running in the background upon the start up of your personal computer.

ThreatFire is quite effective because it uses a unique form of behavior-based protection which offers real-time prevention of security threats including viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits and some types of spyware. In other words, it is dramatically different from most AntiVirus software because it wont spring into action until some infected file tries to wreck havoc on your computer.

If anything brand new attempts to take over your computer, ThreatFire always is there in the background to block against many potentially malicious actions, no matter how out of date your traditional signature-based antivirus software might be.

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