any registary clean up download recommendations

[brass neck]

Ive just had to uninstall advanced system care as it had stopped working....does anyone have any good recommendations for a system clean up, repair, protection etc? I have avast, spybot malware. My laptop is three years old and is getting a bit glitchy and slower now so anything that is considered good at sorting things out, getting rid of problems, pointless programs etc that i can get for cnet or somewhere else I would be interested in. I used to run asc once a month or so just to sort things out but it never totally sorted the laptop back to how it used to be.

 

[quiet_riot]

CCleaner

 

[auction294]

regcleaner @ majorgeeks

 

[talkativesprout]

CCleaner

Used this for years. contains a few good tools as well as reg clean.

 

[TCIB]

What u also need is a profesional defrag tool like "Raxco Perfect Disk"

Ccleaner is good, tuneup utilities is ok also but not free.

 

[auction294]

Defrag in Windows is perfectly fine. Why would you need a 'professional' piece of software, written by who exactly? Is the software vendor better placed to write a defrag tool for a Microsoft product than Microsoft?

Once all these tune up, defrag , utilities etc are installed then these can slow down or impact on the Operating System. Basic rule, more software installed more likely it is that conflicts and issues will arise. Keep it simple.

Stick two people in a room and they will probably get along fine. Stick 200 people in a room and the rest as they say is history. Same with software, more is not always better.

 

[bluetoo]

Defrag in Windows is perfectly fine. Why would you need a 'professional' piece of software, written by who exactly? Is the software vendor better placed to write a defrag tool for a Microsoft product than Microsoft?

Once all these tune up, defrag , utilities etc are installed then these can slow down or impact on the Operating System. Basic rule, more software installed more likely it is that conflicts and issues will arise. Keep it simple.

Stick two people in a room and they will probably get along fine. Stick 200 people in a room and the rest as they say is history. Same with software, more is not always better.

Gotta agree with this...also...most of these programs claim to 'speed up' your computer. Im not convinced but even if they do the difference would be in nanoseconds and not appreciable by the human eye. Plus...many of these programs cause more problems than they fix. Unless you know exactly what to delete or not you can end up deleting stuff from your registry that you may well need at a later date. I've seen it happen...

 

[TCIB]

Defrag in Windows is perfectly fine. Why would you need a 'professional' piece of software, written by who exactly? Is the software vendor better placed to write a defrag tool for a Microsoft product than Microsoft?

Once all these tune up, defrag , utilities etc are installed then these can slow down or impact on the Operating System. Basic rule, more software installed more likely it is that conflicts and issues will arise. Keep it simple.

Stick two people in a room and they will probably get along fine. Stick 200 people in a room and the rest as they say is history. Same with software, more is not always better.

Gotta agree with this...also...most of these programs claim to 'speed up' your computer. Im not convinced but even if they do the difference would be in nanoseconds and not appreciable by the human eye. Plus...many of these programs cause more problems than they fix. Unless you know exactly what to delete or not you can end up deleting stuff from your registry that you may well need at a later date. I've seen it happen...

Your wrong and i will explain why.

Windows defrag does not differentiate between operating system files and and general files ergo your system may be well organized with regards to free space consolidation but your system will not be faster. It also results in an increase of reads and writes to the disk which lowers hdd life expectancy.

ccleaner is good but make sure you check both tabs as you may delete stuff from proggies u may want such as site logins etc etc.

For a pure file system quick clean get atf-cleaner, its simple quick and free and solid.

For defreag you want either of diskeeper or raxco perfect disk. These both employ algorithms that identify and act accordingly to system files.

The best on the market are diskeeper and perfectdisk no questions, o&o is shit and they are always copying the big boys.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/ATF-Cleaner.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/S ... aner.shtml</a>

For perfect disk pm me as i cant post details here for obvious reasons.

diskkeepeer and perfectdisk were written by former microsoft engineers.

 

[bluetoo]

Defrag in Windows is perfectly fine. Why would you need a 'professional' piece of software, written by who exactly? Is the software vendor better placed to write a defrag tool for a Microsoft product than Microsoft?

Once all these tune up, defrag , utilities etc are installed then these can slow down or impact on the Operating System. Basic rule, more software installed more likely it is that conflicts and issues will arise. Keep it simple.

Stick two people in a room and they will probably get along fine. Stick 200 people in a room and the rest as they say is history. Same with software, more is not always better.

Gotta agree with this...also...most of these programs claim to 'speed up' your computer. Im not convinced but even if they do the difference would be in nanoseconds and not appreciable by the human eye. Plus...many of these programs cause more problems than they fix. Unless you know exactly what to delete or not you can end up deleting stuff from your registry that you may well need at a later date. I've seen it happen...

Your wrong and i will explain why.

Windows defrag does not differentiate between operating system files and and general files ergo your system may be well organized with regards to free space consolidation but your system will not be faster. It also results in an increase of reads and writes to the disk which lowers hdd life expectancy.

ccleaner is good but make sure you check both tabs as you may delete stuff from proggies u may want such as site logins etc etc.

For a pure file system quick clean get atf-cleaner, its simple quick and free and solid.

For defreag you want either of diskeeper or raxco perfect disk. These both employ algorithms that identify and act accordingly to system files.

The best on the market are diskeeper and perfectdisk no questions, o&o is shit and they are always copying the big boys.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/ATF-Cleaner.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/S ... aner.shtml</a>

For perfect disk pm me as i cant post details here for obvious reasons.

diskkeepeer and perfectdisk were written by former microsoft engineers.

My point was that although these programs claim to speed up your pc...the difference is barely noticeable. Weighing that against the potential damage they can do makes it a no brainer for me...stay away from them. I agreed with the previous poster that general maintenance on the pc is worthwhile and as such why not stick with the tools you already have? A LOT of people like the idea of cleaning 'junk' off your pc (as is advertised) The problem is that after a few months of using such programs you may do more harm than good. Clear your cache once in a while and run scandisk/defrag every few months and the regular user wont need much more than that. Where people get into problems is that they think cleaners like this fix all registry problems when often they cause more than they fix.