Build a Powerful PC Repair Suite, For Free (Windows)

With most PC repair/tune-up software’s, such as tune-up utilities and system mechanic, costing almost $40+, most PC users prefer to put up with a slow, buggy, and ‘weighed down’ computer rather than shell out hard earned money. But there is a way to get most of the features offered by costly repair software for free. The software’s below will repair and optimize your computer, in much the same way.

Piriform’s CCleaner is a very effective tool in removing unnecessary files from your hard drive to free up disk space. simply select the categories you want cleaned, such as certain browser files, the temp directory, and log files for various applications, and it's done. CCleaner also contains a registry cleaner, which is fairly effective in removing unneeded registry entries which could potentially slow down your system. CCleaner also has a start-up manager and program uninstaller.

Piriform’s Defraggler differs from other defrag tools, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive, unless you want to. Simply launch Defraggler, select the file, folder or the entire disk and defragment it in just a few seconds. No more struggling with the lack luster Windows defragmentation tool.

Piriform’s Recuva is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses. This application is simple to use, with a wizard that guides users along the recovery process, and a fast engine that can scan drives at an amazing speed compared to other programs of the kind. Recuva offers two scan options: first, a rapid scan, which can be helpful with recently deleted files; and a complete deep scan that may take some more time, depending on the drive size. After searching and detecting the deleted files, Recuva offers a comfortable way to select the ones you want to rescue. These files may be pictures, music, video, documents, compressed files (.zip and .rar), and other file types.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: There are loads of malware removers available nowadays and most of them are lightweight applications, which usually means they’re fast and don’t have many features. One such lightweight application is Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware.

Like all these similar pieces of software, Malwarebytes is fast and doesn’t use a lot of resources, but unlike most, Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware provides live protection and full scans for all drives. Another great thing about this program is that its database is updated on a regular basis – at least every two days, which is already very often for such a program, but sometimes they update even more frequently.

Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware is somewhat customizable and has several extra utilities for manual malware removal. The program is available in many languages and works just fine with other anti-viral and anti-spyware software.

GFI backup 2009 Home Edition: is a free, easy-to-use and complete solution, designed for secure backups of all your important documents, pictures, and more. Suitable for beginners and experienced users alike, this tool allows you to back up all your documents, photos, music, emails and programs, via a simple but smart wizard-driven interface.

Using GFI Backup, you can back up your data to virtually any storage device, including local and external disk drives, LAN, CD/DVD, removable devices, remote FTP servers, etc. Restoring your data can be done in minutes, using the common ZIP format, allowing you also to split and span the archive over multiple hard-drives.

This freeware backup solution includes the Sync Task feature, which enables you to synchronize folders from different media. GFI Backup can also be configured to send error or warning notification emails and summary reports for each finished backup task.