ABCD are you With Me?

2»

Replies

  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    ...not hearing any other side than mine...

    what could possibly go wrong?


    I'm even less computer savvy than probably any of ya'll. I am also probably way more paranoid than I need to be about cookies, but when my 2016 hp/Windows computer started slowing down, that was the only thing I knew to try.

    non-Pro tip. That may or may not have helped. It did make me feel better.

    On older computers, I run CCleaner regularly. I keep ignoring the pitches to use the paid version.

    https://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/3000-18512_4-10315544.html

  • ddsb1111
    ddsb1111 Posts: 929 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    cmriverside wrote: »
    ...not hearing any other side than mine...

    what could possibly go wrong?


    I'm even less computer savvy than probably any of ya'll. I am also probably way more paranoid than I need to be about cookies, but when my 2016 hp/Windows computer started slowing down, that was the only thing I knew to try.

    non-Pro tip. That may or may not have helped. It did make me feel better.

    On older computers, I run CCleaner regularly. I keep ignoring the pitches to use the paid version.

    https://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/3000-18512_4-10315544.html

    I have a feeling this will be useful to quite a few people here. There’s too many scams so I’ve completely avoided the paid options.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    lolol

    I posted this morning that I'm paranoid and not that computer savvy.

    I looked at that website and I don't think I'd be able to figure out what needs to go and what needs to stay. I'd be deleting my OS, pretty sure.

    @kshama2001, love ya gal, but linking a paranoid person to a program I have to download goes directly into the Nope File. :lol:
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,462 Member
    edited May 2024
    CC was ok but got overly aggressive a few years back and I sort of stopped using it.

    Would double check my clicks carefully as opposed to fly by clickedly click based on last remembered use

    Not sure where it's now
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    lolol

    I posted this morning that I'm paranoid and not that computer savvy.

    I looked at that website and I don't think I'd be able to figure out what needs to go and what needs to stay. I'd be deleting my OS, pretty sure.

    @kshama2001, love ya gal, but linking a paranoid person to a program I have to download goes directly into the Nope File. :lol:

    I trust CNET for downloads but I hear ya :smiley:

    You can also clear cache/cookies, etc. manually through the browser/application itself, which is too inefficient for me, but certainly more secure than a 3rd party app. (My IT guy almost 20 years ago recommended CCleaner, and I've never had an issue with it. I mostly just use Custom Clean, which I've set as the default.)

    Warning: using CCleaner will sign you out of most sites. I use the LastPass password manager. For LastPass I actually use a paid version so it will sync my phone and PC. I have some complaints about the phone version but I've been using it for PC for over 10 years. I'm not recommending this for you either, @cmriverside, just rambling :lol:

    This is a newer computer and I haven't done it in a while, so got rid of 5.45 GB of junk, which does not include the browser I'm using, as I left it (Opera) open to continue on this post.

    0mj1256qv95s.png

    With older computers, doing this regularly definitely improved performance, but towards the end of their lifespan this would be from "Unacceptable" to "Barely Acceptable."
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,013 Member
    As a total OT aside to this thread, be cautious of keeping a computer too long, like some of you mention.

    I’ve been religiously backing up my 2012 MacBook to an external hard drive because it was in great shape, worked fine.

    Then the battery completely went and it was taking a longer and longer time to boot up, so time to upgrade.

    Come to find out, this thing is three versions of lightning plugs ago, the best software I can update it to, because if it’s age, is not compatible with Icloud, and it takes three or four adapters to hook this to that to that to that to try to transfer data- primarily precious family photos. The hard drives are compatible with the new iPad I bought, but were taking hours to upload small batches of photos, and even then files were getting hung or corrupted . The little teeny jump drives I bought aren’t recognized by either the old laptop, or if they are, the iPad won’t recognize them.

    It took many many hours of experimenting and googling forums, but I finally found a PITA workaround, starting with culling 7,000 of the 30,000 photos I had stored, just to make it manageable.

    I bet I’ve got 150 hours invested in this project and have many more to go.

    We don’t even want to use iCloud, but the workaround is the only way to salvage the photos, get them safely into the cloud and then bring them back to a jump drive or device.

    And the workaround has stripped all date location etc info from the photos, creating an utter S Show.

    Even if your old device “works just fine, bah, I don’t need a new one”, make sure you’re current on technology. Its a nightmare when you’re backhanded by new stuff you didn’t know existed.

    This has been the biggest fekking headache since I set my office on a new system for Y2K.

    I thought I was comparatively computer savvy but good grief, I am not.

Categories