PC is slooooooowing up, general junk I feel the cause. What are your best free or otherwise programs to restore health to pc’s XP (yes I still have one) but mostly windows 7 and windows 8
Used to using programs like piriform cclean various bot finders etc.
Not up for doing a format on the drive as I don’t have the windows cd’s anymore and it may stretch my knowledge a bit too much…(but perhaps not if i put the time in)

I think you can download Win 7 media to re-install, there is an option to do a restore where it uses all the existing licensing and partitions off the old files which you can delete when you are done.

It’s quick and simple.

How many are you doing?

Used to using programs like piriform cclean

That blows away my first suggestion then, but that and defraggler should solve most basic woes.

I think you can download Win 7 media to re-install,

You can indeed – currently typing on a Vista machine restored with downloaded media, and W7 is also available from the same place (on MS servers, so nothing dodgy, the only trick is knowing where to look).

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/cannot-find-digital-river-download-site/66a8439b-0d16-4b70-92f7-1c8486a46ebf

http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/14-windows-7-direct-download-links