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Optimize has three parts that change your system settings: Internet optimization, registry cleaning, and system performance optimization.. The settings changed in the Internet optimizati

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is shut down In many cases, however, the applications do not always clean up after themselves

After scanning your system, Optimize gives you the option

to review the files that it found and to select which files should be deleted

What System Settings Does It Change?

Optimize has three parts that change your system settings: Internet optimization, registry cleaning, and system performance optimization The settings changed in the Internet optimization part of the appli-cation, such as those listed here, are set according to your connec-tion type:

• Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU)

• Fast Retransmission and Recovery

• Number of Allowed Simultaneous HTTP Connections Invalid keys that are removed by the registry cleaning part of the application are entries in the registry containing information about COM and ActiveX objects These objects are parts of programs, and when you remove the programs these keys sometimes still exist Optimize safely removes these keys if the COM object no longer exists Areas of the registry where we look for the invalid keys are:

• Invalid Class IDs (CLSID)

• Invalid Program Identifiers (ProgID)

• Invalid Type Libraries (TypeLib)

• Invalid Interfaces The performance section of the application changes some registry settings that help get the most out of your PC, such as:

• LargeSystemCache

• DisablePagingExecutive

• ContigFileAllocSize

• NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate

• DisableScreenSaver

• AlwaysUnloadDll

12 Part I • Understand the Issues and Solutions

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Part 2

OPTIMIZING YOUR PC

In This Part Chapter 3: Installing PC Pitstop Optimize Chapter 4: Performing a Scan

Chapter 5: The Optimization Chapter 6: Other Ways to Optimize Your PC Chapter 7: Updating PC Pitstop Optimize Chapter 8: Troubleshooting PC Pitstop Optimize This part of the book shows step-by-step how to optimize your PC to ensure your computer operates at its full potential We walk you through the installation of the included software, PC Pitstop Optimize This software addresses the many issues of poor and degraded PC performance, such as those discussed in Part 1 of this book This soft-ware will show how to clean up and speed up your computer In addi-tion, you’ll learn many other tasks you can perform to ensure that you get the most out of your PC

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INSTALLING PC PITSTOP OPTIMIZE

Installing PC Pitstop Optimize is the first step

toward quickly and easily resolving many common computing issues that your PC may be currently experiencing in order to improve the performance and stability of your computer

System Requirements The following requirements must be met, or exceeded, for the installation of PC Pitstop Optimize 1.5:

• 100 MHz processor or greater

• Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98

• 64MB or greater of RAM

• 10MB or more of free disk space

• Super VGA Video, 15-inch monitor, 800x600 min resolution

Installing PC Pitstop Optimize

To install PC Pitstop Optimize 1.5, which is included with this book, follow these steps

Step 1

Insert the PC Pitstop Optimize installation CD into the drive on your PC The installation will begin automatically

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If your installation fails to start automatically, you can launch it by browsing to the drive containing the CD and double-clicking the

setup.exefile

Step 2

You will now see the Welcome dialog box, as shown in Figure 3-1

Figure 3-1: The Welcome dialog box

To continue, click Next

Step 3

You will be prompted to accept the license agreement, as seen in Figure 3-2

Figure 3-2: PC Pitstop Optimize license agreement

If you agree with the terms of the license agreement, click the I Accept the Agreement option, and click Next to continue

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