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Digissential

Speed-Up / Tune-Up

Serving Stellenbosch & surrounds • Transparent pricing • POPIA-aligned

local-tune-up-speed-up — Digissential

What’s included

  • Start-up and background clean-up
  • Windows/driver updates and health checks
  • Disk health and free-space tidy
  • Plain-English report with next steps

Details

TL;DR: We make a slow PC feel quick again: clean start-up, remove junk, run updates, check health, and give you clear next steps.
Local: Popular with SU students and homes in Welgevonden/Die Boord, plus Technopark teams who want a smooth workday.

Problems we fix

  • Long boot times and apps that take ages to open
  • Fans spin up at idle; the PC feels busy doing nothing
  • Browser full of toolbars, pop-ups, and mystery add-ons
  • Disk nearly full; Windows nags for space
  • Updates fail or loop forever

What’s included

  • Start-up clean-up: trim heavy apps that launch at boot
  • Updates: Windows + common apps; drivers where helpful
  • Disk health check: SMART peek, free-space tidy, temp files cleared
  • Browser hygiene: remove shady add-ons; reset noisy settings
  • Health notes: simple report with what we did and easy tips

How we do it (at a glance)

  1. Quick chat: what’s slow and when it started
  2. Start-up pass: cut junk and set calmer defaults
  3. Updates: safe patches and key drivers
  4. Health check: disk SMART, RAM short test, event log glance
  5. Browser clean: remove pop-up junk; set a sane home page
  6. Space tidy: temp files and caches cleaned, recycle checked
  7. Handover: short notes + upgrade options if we spot limits

Plain words. No tech talk.

Time & cost in Stellenbosch

  • Tune-up fee: R350 per PC
  • Turnaround: Often same day (queues and big updates can add time)
  • If hardware looks weak: we’ll suggest the best fix (e.g., SSD) before you decide

Do-nots (save time and stress)

  • Don’t stack three or four “PC boosters” — they fight and slow the PC
  • Don’t click every pop-up that offers a miracle clean
  • Don’t keep an HDD at 99% full — Windows crawls
  • Don’t ignore SMART warnings — that’s your early heads-up

When to stop DIY & call us

  • The PC still crawls after your own clean-up
  • Updates fail again and again
  • You see “disk 100%” in Task Manager a lot
  • Blue screens or random restarts pop up during normal use
  • Drive clicks or the case feels hot at idle

Real stories around town

  • SU first-year (Huis Marais): Laptop took 7 minutes to boot. We trimmed start-up apps, cleared pop-ups, and it opened in under a minute.
  • Die Boord family PC: HDD at 98% full and noisy. We freed space, set a basic backup, and priced an SSD that made it feel new.
  • Technopark sales laptop: Browser hijacked, tabs crashing. We removed bad add-ons, updated, and set calm defaults. Smooth again.

Simple tips

  • Let Windows update on a quiet evening once a week
  • Keep at least 20% free space on the system drive
  • Use one good password manager; trim auto-start apps you don’t use
  • Dust the front mesh now and then; heat makes PCs sluggish

What we’ll need

  • Your Windows login and, if prompted, admin rights
  • Any BitLocker key if Windows asks after updates
  • A note on when it’s slow (start-up, after sleep, on Wi-Fi, in a browser)

Serving Stellenbosch & surrounds • POPIA-aligned privacy • CPA-aligned warranty
Lawful e-waste routing on request (with data-wipe certificate)