Don't Waste Your Money On This #Shorts

Those "PC tuning" programs are mostly just a big waste of cash. #Shorts

[RageQuitSon]

Grandma isn't watching this short... grandma is busy buying pc doctor.

[thepokekid]

I know these videos are for a different audience, but I feel like this video is 20 years too late.

[DaxtonAnderson]

Huge +1 for completely formatting the OS and starting fresh, I do it on EVERY laptop I deploy because the bloat included is absolutely brutal

[trappedcat]

Title: Don't waste your money on this Shorts
Me: Okay, I'll buy some Pants

[kahuna]

Thanks for the tip. Now I can afford to download more RAM!

[solelgammal]

No the problem was you were using an old version I recommend PC Doctor 69, 420

[Zefram]

i downloaded ram once and my pc got so fast.

[BoostedMonkey]

There is a script available for removing all sorts of bloatware and the background stuff that windows uses to harvest data from its users without their explicit consent. That helped a lot with pc performance.

[GaudyMarko]

Around the early 2000s I bought something called a disk doctor (essentially a hand cranked buffer disk) that was supposed to repair scratches in cd-roms. I used it once and it turned a disk that had read errors kinda often into a disk that was completely unreadable. That's what came to mind when I heard pc Dr 69k

[philipcooksey]

How many videos did you shoot that day? This is like the 6th video I've seen James in that shirt in the last week

[cosmick]

Believe it or not, cache is actually designed to make your computer run faster because it doesn't have to download unnecessary files from the internet or make unnecessary read/writes to the hard drive. It's negligible with an SSD (especially an NVME drive), so it's mainly to save on network bandwidth if anything.

[syamsudiantosutarsa]

Always told my family this kind of things is useless and actually made the already slow laptop slower especially during startup. But they keep reinstalling it after i told them not to do so. And they will go back complaining again why it got slow again after the last time i fix it.

[eIucidate]

Disabling start-up programs and uninstalling bloatware RESPECTIVELY 🤦🏽

[henryijeoma]

Microsoft should give us a built in registry cleaner. Yeah I know, Registry doesn't need cleaning, but I find it ridiculous that every file we've ever installed since the lifespan of a PC still has an entry in the registry even years after uninstalling smh

[TechSecGuru]

Right, cause elderly people are really interested in purchasing solid state drives and upgrading ram. Companies like Bestbuy's GeekSquad, for example, thrives on the elderly. Cheaper to purchase System Mechanic and running it once a month, rather than relying on elderly people to want to learn how to use the native tools to do all of this. One-click-software solutions are useful for that reason.

[madbanana]

"Don't waste your money on is Shorts!"
OK I wont

[DeerJerky]

Another tip: Microsoft has developed its built-in antivirus enough to where it competes a lot with most paid options, so you don't really need to buy a new subscription anymore.
However, if you do suspect malware undetected by Windows, a trial scanner (e.g. malwarebytes' scanner) is not a bad idea.

[LoFi]

I religiously reinstall windows every 3 months. Only takes me half an hour to have it configured for daily use. Keeps it running it’s best and I don’t have to spend hours diagnosing odd behaviours with apps/games/windows etc. reinstall, everything works perfectly again.

I am so done diagnosing random issues.

[rjhrjh]

I once fixed somebody’s performance issues on a computer by disabling a lot of bloatware from the start-up menu. Cost $0. Time ten minutes. Skill level required low. Software I needed to install zero. This should be the second thing you do to solve someone’s computer issues. The first thing to do of course is to do a reboot of the computer.

[UrvineSpiegel]

Who is this video for?
Just be a good grandchild, and build your grandparents a new system. An SSD alone will blow their minds.