Hi. My computer is a crappy pile of junk but I do not have money to buy a better one right now.

Any tips on software that can make it less slow and awful?

I use Clean Master and it helps a little.

Any other good ones you guys would recommend?

Whenever my computer starts to become an annoying piece of trash, I save everything unto a desk and restart it. Usually wipes out viruses, extra junk, etc etc and I get to put everything important back in

CCleaner is good if you're too scared to do what i do though

Sorry, not familiar with such software despite having looked at some options in the past. There's probably a few tricks that can help you, but nothing huge. If you've had Windows installed for a long time and remember it being faster, you can always try reinstalling Windows. It's a pretty big hassle if you have tons of stuff on your computer though, because it wipes your disk partition (i.e. you lose all the programs and files on a single partition, so you need to reinstall the programs and make backups of important files, and the backups need to be on another partition, such as a USB stick).

If it's really slow, I recommend installing some Linux distribution. I've noticed Linux Mint to be much faster than Windows on my current and previous laptops. If there's nothing Windows-specific you need, it's a great choice and very easy to use. Unfortunately, as is the case with installing any OS, it'll wipe your disk partition.

Try a Full system virus scan, than follow on with a Disk Clean up and Disk Defragmentation.

I do this with my Laptop all the time. It helps alittle.

Best would be to make a clean instal... To make a ghost copy of that... And save everything that can be on an external or secondary drive... If becomes slow again just reinstall the ghost image...

Aren't you a technical professional? Isn't that what you said to me before? What the actual fuck?

at computers??? Lol. Are you sure it was me? I work in a Courthouse delivering subpoenas and investigating people´s whereabouts. I have being doing this for 15 years.

I think you are confusing me with another user, I am the weird christian brazilian guy, remember?