I do the usual defrag and disc clean up. But I want to do a serious clear out as my computer is really slowing down now. (3 years old). It gurgles after boot up for about 2-3 minutes, where do I find unnessary boot up files that arent needed. My computer really slowed down after downloading Norton even though Ive got rid of it now its never really recovered.

any advice appreciated to save £50 for a man to come out

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ok ela

go to start then run

type in msconfig

go to the startup tab and it will show you all the services that are starting up when you boot up the system.

untick the ones you don't need then restart

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theres loads

http://img93.echo.cx/img93/6339/startup0nx.jpg

and

http://img93.echo.cx/img93/2374/startup23wv.jpg

I dont know what some of these are

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I have used a mac for about 6 years now and they have nowhere near the same problems as PC's