Question software to stop unwanted programs and fix window 7 errors if any.

[catfishhoward]

Looking for a all in one software to stop unneeded programs from running in the background as well as look for any error that might be slowing up Windows 7 after I had bad crash 3 months ago. I'm at a point that I'm about to reload Windows 7 if I cant figure out whats going on?

Little back ground if you need it:

3 months ago my graphic card went out so I replaced it but it never seemed to be as fast as before even thought the specs are better on the 3 new cards I have tried? I have went to mini DP for a 3 monitor setup. Then about a month ago I hooked up an old hard drive to my Window 7 desktop and during the startup it froze so I turned the pc off and it said it could not fix or recover. After a day I finally got it to recover but my USB 3 ports and audio ports stopped working but my USB 2 ports were still good. I download the drivers but it kept going out so I unplugged the USB 3 on my mother board to hook up new USB 3 PCI-E card and when I downloaded that driver I got back my other USB 3 and audio but since then the pc is just slow and this morning is really slow.

 

[catfishhoward]

The Avira Security Free is the cause of my slowing pc. I don't know what changed over night but that cause Avira to slow my pc but I'm going to a different antivirus.

 

[USAFRet]

The Avira Security Free is the cause of my slowing pc. I don't know what changed over night but that cause Avira to slow my pc but I'm going to a different antivirus.

The built in Windows Defender is equal to or better than most other ones.
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[Darkbreeze]

The built in Windows Defender is equal to or better than most other ones.
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Exactly.

 

[catfishhoward]

Thanks for all the help.

Deleting Avira has gotten back my speed but the main question I had was "Looking for a all in one software to stop unneeded programs from running in the background as well as look for any error that might be slowing up Windows 7 after I had bad crash 3 months ago. So far I have not found that software and that might be because it doesn't exist as one poster commented? If I can I'll leave this topic open in case that software comes available please someone let me know.

 

[USAFRet]

Does not exist.
Can not exist.

Because "unneeded" differs for different people and at different times.

When I'm playing a game it might need different things running vs if I'm building a CAD model.

 

[USAFRet]

Bad crashes, if software related, can be handled by a good backup routine.

If my OS were to become corrupted, I could just recover the whole drive, exactly as it was in the wee hours of this morning. Or yesterday.
Or any day in the last month.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Besides which, if you are knowledgeable enough to be stopping specific routines from running in the background, you would be knowledgeable enough to know which routines are safe to disallow and you'd know equally how to go about stopping them without borking the system.

And there ARE utilities that will allow you to selectively stop services from automatically loading when Windows starts, but they are highly likely to create more problems than they ever solve because if you really knew what you were doing enough to be doing it, you wouldn't need them, and if you don't, then you shouldn't.

 

[USAFRet]

I was about to comment on the applications and scripts out there that purport to do what you think you want.

I specifically did not, because TomsHardware is where people often come after using them, wanting to get their system running again.

And usually, the answer is - Full wipe and reinstall, because you can't get to the tools to undo what it did.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yes, undoing what you did, and didn't realize you were doing, is often the reason these are a very poor choice and exactly why half the people who come here, come here. You are right about that for sure.