[boomers rule]

Hi,

I was just wondering if there are any good tools to help your computer with any problems or space or speed, whatever. What do you guys use? If you need possibly any more info on what I'm asking just reply away. Cheers.

P.S. Just so you know what programs I'm talking about I mean like CCleaner, Tuneup Utilities 2009 and CleanMyPC - Registry.

[akaHothead]

Best advice is to stay away from registry cleaners. Just cause problems.

[daniel_b2380]

this about registry cleaners - courtesy elvandil,

http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...hing-else.html

Originally Posted by Elvandil

Nothing. DON'T DO IT! We would end up seeing a lot of you, provided you could get online at all.

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...gcure-any.html
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...y-cleaner.html
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...g-cleaner.html
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vi...file-lost.html

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Originally Posted by Elvandil

Those things don't really fix anything and there is always the danger they will remove something needed. The registry is pretty self-maintaining, so save yourself some heartache.

I am, however, a fan of registry compactors.
Free registry defragmenters (compressors):
NTREGOPT - http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
RegCompact.NET - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categor...egCompact.html
WinASO RegDefrag - http://www.winaso.com/

Other than those, I'd suggest not using any shotgun approaches to the registry.

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Originally Posted by Elvandil

I'll add that one to the list, and this:

Even if registry cleaners actually worked and did what they are supposed to safely, what would be the net gain?

I have over 800,000 entries in my registry. So let's say 1 million as a good approximation. So if we also assume that the "speed" of the registry is an inverse relationship, in other words, if it were half as large, it would be twice as fast, how much would this cleaner actually speed things up?

If it found 5,000 "errors" (they aren't really errors, but let's assume they are since the cleaners do), then the increase in the speed of the registry would be 5000/1000000, or 0.005, or 1/2%. So in other words, by running a registry cleaner and remocving 5000 entries (which is more than most find) and risking serious damage to your installation and programs, you have succeeded in increasing the speed by 1/2 of 1% (if it were even true in the first place that registry access speed is dependent on size in this way, which it isn't).

Does that seem worth it to you?

[daniel_b2380]

boomer,
CleanUp! Home
http://www.stevengould.org/index.php...tent&task=view
i use this application and have had no problems, however, some have reported some, so....

CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
[previously known as: crap cleaner]
i use this one also, FOR THE CLEANING, the default settings are fine, DO NOT MAKE CHANES IN THE SETTINGS TO HAVE IT DO REGISTRY CLEANING THOUGH,

see my above post

[JohnWill]

A good read: Ed Bott: "Why I don’t use registry cleaners"

[Kenny94]

Here's another good read:

http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/...eaking_13.html

Note: miekiemoes is one of the top malware fighters and registry experts.

[JohnWill]

Another good one Kenny!

[sys-eng]

jkdefrag - disk defragmenter

[1002richards]

Originally Posted by Kenny94

Here's another good read:

http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/...eaking_13.html

Note: miekiemoes is one of the top malware fighters and registry experts.

It certainly a good read, thanks for the link.

[JohnWill]

Defragging is useful, though not the panacea that many think it is. You should do it occasionally, but doing it every week is overkill for almost any reasonable system use.

[sys-eng]

I defrag at 1:00 AM on Sundays (in safe mode) then run full malware scans beginning at 3:00 AM. The scans are noticeably quicker after defragging. Lots of people defrag daily which is just overworking the drives.

I also run scanpst before defragging. I have fixed a lot of Outlook problems for people with just scanpst.

[Marbleman]

Disk cleanup - Ccleaner or built-in Windows utility.

Anti-Virus - Avast free edition. Switched from AVG free, and Avast is much better.
Anti-malware- Malwarebytes Anti-malware free.

Defrag - Diskeeper 2009 Pro on automatic defrag mode. Set once and forget operation.

Registry cleaner - none. NOT required.

All of these programs work brilliantly. Especially the registry cleaner (or lack thereof ).

[gatewaypc700]

I used a registry cleaner once.
I ended up re-installing the OS.
Needless to say, I will never, EVER use one again!
James