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PC optimisation and virus removal

Before ordering new equipment it is worth finding out what exactly is slow. There are usually three causes: a slow drive, not enough memory, and a bunch of programs launching at power-on. Fixing any of them costs several times less than buying.

Monitoring
measured under load
Drive
most often it is
Cleaning
of software that does not belong
Cheaper
than replacing the machine

What the work includes

We diagnose by instruments: watching the processor, memory and disk queue while the person gets on with their normal work.

Discuss the scope

Measurement

Monitoring during working hours and a hunt for whatever is hitting its ceiling.

Startup items

Programs nobody launched that have been sitting in memory since power-on.

Clean-up

Malware, hidden miners, advertising add-ons, substituted pages in the browser.

A fast drive

Moving the system onto a solid-state disk without reinstalling or losing data.

Memory

We add memory modules when a machine constantly dumps data into the swap file.

Dust and thermal paste

Because of overheating the processor throttles itself, and healthy hardware barely crawls.

How it goes

Measuring takes about an hour; the work usually fits into half a day and is done right in the office.

01

We look

We watch the machine through an ordinary working day of its owner.

02

We explain

We name the cause and the cost before touching anything.

03

We do it

Cleaning, disinfection, component replacement - all by agreement.

04

We show it

A repeat measurement and a difference in figures, not in words.

Programs that promise to speed a computer up most often slow it down. Assorted cleaners and optimisers add themselves to startup, spin away in the background and push advertising. The first thing we do on a slow machine is remove exactly those, and quite often that alone is enough.

Questions and answers

From accumulated clutter and infection, yes. From a slow drive and lack of memory, no: a fresh system on a mechanical disk behaves exactly the same a fortnight later. That is why we measure rather than reinstall on a hunch.

So much so that people ask whether their computer has been swapped. Boot time and program launch speed up several times over. For a machine five to seven years old this is effectively a life extension for little money.

Indirectly: the fans are noisy when idle, the browser opens the wrong things, unfamiliar extensions have appeared, outbound traffic runs at night. A confident answer comes from checking with several independent tools, because one can miss what another catches.

We will speed your computers up

Write how many machines you have and how they behave. We will start with measurements; often no purchase is needed at all.