Well i thought i would give you all that is having problems with slow computers, that might be due to viruses or spyware, or just a really crappy computer. But here are the programs i use regular to clean up my computer and they work.

Cleanup!
http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=72


CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/

spybot Search and destory
http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?cat=2

Ncleaner
http://www.nkprods.com/ncleaner/

CCleaner and ncleaner has a registry cleanup built in and some times bad registry can slow your computer down. Hope this helps it helped me!!!!

thanx

no problemo

Yeah.. I use CCleaner and one other one too, I like the other one as well which is called wise disk cleaner 3.. it's free to use but if you want to upgrade you can. I like using both of them. Then I know my pc stay's clean.

Here is a link to it.. http://www.download.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=wise+disk+cleaner&tag=srch&searchtype=downloads&filterName=platform%3DWindows&filter=platform%3DWindows

I prefer Uniblue's, Registry Booster (some virus are registry entries, and if the path is invalid and usually is, this program deletes it), and Speed up My PC. Both program a decent at removeing adware, malware and cleaning up your computer in general.

Not to be out done. But....

Free Security Software

AVG Anti-Virus
hxxp://free.avg.com/

Avast Anti-Virus
hxxp://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Avira Anti-Virus
hxxp://www.free-av.com/

ClamWin
hxxp://clamwin.com/

ClamWinPortable
hxxp://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable

Comodo Firewall
hxxp://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Ad-Aware Spyware Remover
hxxp://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Spybot Search and Destroy
hxxp://spysearchdestroy.com/

SUPERAntiSpyware
hxxp://www.superantispyware.com/


Security/Encryption

TrueCrypt
hxxp://www.truecrypt.org/

Axcrypt
hxxp://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/


Browsers - If you're still using IE, I'd think about switching to one of these

Firefox
hxxp://www.mozilla.org/

Opera
hxxp://www.opera.com/

Chrome
hxxp://www.google.com/chrome

Seamonkey
hxxp://www.seamonkey-project.org/


Email Clients

Thunderbird
hxxp://www.mozilla.org/


Office Software

Open Office
hxxp://openoffice.org/

Google Docs- Calendar software
hxxp://docs.google.com


Cleanup and Maintenance

CCleaner Registry Cleaner/PC Tune Up
hxxp://www.ccleaner.com/

Glary Utilities Registry Cleaner/PC Tune Up
hxxp://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

JKDefrag Better than Stock XP Defrag
hxxp://www.kessels.nl/JkDefrag/index.html


Torrent Clients

Utorrent
hxxp://www.utorrent.com/download.php

Azureus/Vuze
hxxp://azureus.sourceforge.net/


Ipod Video Converter

Videora
hxxp://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/


DVD Rip/Burn

DVD Shrink - Ripper
hxxp://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm

DVDFab Decrypter -Ripper
hxxp://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvdfab_decrypter.cfm

ImgBurn -Burner
hxxp://www.imgburn.com/


Media Player

VLC - Plays most anything
hxxp://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Winamp
hxxp://www.winamp.com/player


Photoshop Alternatives

Paint.net
hxxp://www.getpaint.net/download.html

Gimp - For Windows
hxxp://www.gimp.org/windows/


Tools - I know this section has potential for growth, so post what I'm missing or PM me.

7-Zip -Archiver/Unzipper
hxxp://www.7-zip.org/

Driver Sweeper -Thoroughly cleans out old drivers before new ones are installed
hxxp://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

Vlite - Slims down Vista install
hxxp://www.vlite.net/

Nlite - Slims down XP install
hxxp://www.nliteos.com/

UltimateBootCD Bootable disk loaded with tools
hxxp://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Google Earth
hxxp://earth.google.com/

File Zilla
hxxp://filezilla-project.org/

Duplicate File RemoverDoubleKiller
hxxp://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/doublekiller/

File RecoveryUndelete Plus
hxxp://www.undelete-plus.com/help/

TestDisk
hxxp://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Partition cloner/imagingClonezilla
hxxp://clonezilla.org/

Partition Editor
Parted Magic Live CD - hxxp://partedmagic.com/

Password DatabaseKeePass
hxxp://keepass.info/

KeePass for Blackberry
hxxp://f5bbutil.sourceforge.net/keepassbb/

Sound EditorAudacity
hxxp://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Text EditorNotepad++
hxxp://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm


Windows Alternatives- Easy Linux distributions to start with are Ubuntu, and PCLinuxOS

hxxp://distrowatch.com/

Well i was kind of going towards clean up programs not programs it self? but hey thanks

yup, all those programs can be found at http://www.majorgeeks.com

http://www.filehippo.com/ has some of those downloads too


free cd/dvd burning software ..imgburn works great!
http://www.filehippo.com/download_imgburn/


picasa 3, cool picture viewer/editor/organizer:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_picasa/


7-zip..the most powerful compression utility/ free zipper/unzipper program
http://www.filehippo.com/download_7-zip/

CPU-Z to check your PC-s speed and memory , good stuff to see if everything is in working order:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_cpuz/


VLC player, plays everything , no need to mess around with codecs and stuff, I haven't found a video or sound format it didn't play:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_vlc/


Rocketdock- a program launcher, similar to the one on the MAC operating system launcher:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_rocketdock/


Qtorrent- torrent program to download stuff... don't ask me what can be downloaded, I'm a bad influence

http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/

You guys don't know how helpful this has been to me today of all days. I really needed this information. Thank you.

Heres a program dont know if you know about it but its for you limewire users. Most of you probably dont know what your downloading when you download music, and then you get a virus or spyware lots of it and your like crap. Well heres frostwire. Its just like limewire but less viruses and spyware. Yet to find a song with it on there. Heres a hint. If the song says 20killi bits? Dont download it. Most songs might be around 4 to 7 killi bits. Depends on the legeth of it. hope this helps a bit.

http://www.frostwire.com/

To add to cleaning programs, If you use IE me personally i would change to mozilla firefox or something else. IE aka internet explorer has alot of backdoors you could say and secruity issues. Also cleaning your history, cookies, temporary files, will also help out alot.