So, I was wondering. Do any of you have any 'handy apps' that you use for system cleanup etc.? I'm quite curious, because the amount of times someone has asked me to 'speed up' their machine is ridiculous. All I end up doing is cleaning out temp files and then running a defrag with the swap file disabled....
Anyone?
most of the apps do things you can easily do yourself except maybe registry defragger but i would advise tuneup utilities its not exactly free but it has a 30 day trial and it does a lot more than cleaning including skinning XP. It has timers to automatically clean your system daily to keep it at full speed.
I can highly recommend the excellent CCleaner
formerly crap cleaner which is free available here
i linked to the slim version because the normal one comes with a toolbar (i hate toolbars lol) you can remove it though or just grab slim that doesnt include it at all.
CCleaner - Downloading Slim...
other good alternative's not so free would be as vhero said or Ace Utilities
other than that a defrag as you said, i schedule mine over night.
forgot about CCleaner haha its a great piece but watch what your doing using it it's easy to wipe your cookies etc.. but it is great for what it can do and best of all its free.Originally Posted by stavr0s2k3
I can highly recommend the excellent CCleaner
formerly crap cleaner which is free available here
i linked to the slim version because the normal one comes with a toolbar (i hate toolbars lol) you can remove it though or just grab slim that doesnt include it at all.
CCleaner - Downloading Slim...
other good alternative's not so free would be as vhero said or Ace Utilities
other than that a defrag as you said, i schedule mine over night.
windows defender is quite handy for the software explorer you can see everything that loads at start-up and disable non-essential stuff. Might help?
Spybot Search and Destroy
StartUP CPL
Crap Cleaner
any of the sysinternals apps
DevilMayCry42 (25-04-2008)
One app. I find really handy, though not a clean up app. per se, is autoruns (AutoRuns for Windows.) I think it's one of sysinternals apps which microsoft accquired, it is excellent for finding out exactly what is running on your pc, I use it mostly for stopping things from starting when windows boots (thus clearing alot of my system tray and system memory.)
Well worth the £00.00 costs.
+1 for Crap Cleaner
Winpatrol.
It goes wuff, and watches over naughty software for you.
Crosshair VIII Hero (WIFI), 3900x, 32GB DDR4, Many SSDs, EVGA FTW3 3090, Ethoo 719
I'm hoping these are all small(ish) apps that I can run off my 2GB U3 thumbdrive...?
Thanks for all the help, they seem perfect so far.
If you want to run apps off your Tdrive then take a look at these sites (if you already know about them, just ignore me);
Free Portable USB Flash Pen Drive Applications | Pendriveapps.com
eure.ca
TinyApps.Org : Home
List of portable software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumatra PDF viewer by Krzysztof Kowalczyk
The Portable Freeware Collection - Latest entries
winPenPack: News
DevilMayCry42 (25-04-2008)
I'm loving the Defraggler app, from the same people that make CCleaner.
Defraggler - Defragment your files!
Jay (27-04-2008)
wow, it looks just like the old defrag. Giving it a go now,
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ccleaner's a must.
I think you can even "verify" the drives now.
WinDirStar for manually clearing out your stuff. Useful for seeing where the bulk of your storage is being taken up.
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