CC Cleaner, Adavaned System Care, AdAware and Spybot.
All free.
Give them all a run, with nothing running in the back ground.
Use the "tools" in your brouser to do a clean from time to time.
Malwarebites is a free mal remover that you only need to turn on when doing a clean so as not to conflict with your antivirous. I use Avast.
I downloaded CC Cleaner for a fella's computer and he had 8gb of junk in his registry!
Can't guarantee it's what's your problem, but it will do a needed clean. I only turn on the defrag in Advanced System Care from time to time. As it takes quite awhile.
-- Edited by AL H on Wednesday 20th of February 2013 12:52:00 PM