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When you are going to improve and optimize your computer or laptop, you might want to see first what programs are being executed, there are a wide variety of programs available for that, but I like to stay close to the Microsoft's solution whenever possible. To my personal experience that method works out as the best.
From the excellent SysInternals Tools Suite you might want to check out Process Explorer, Process Monitor and Automatic Runs. You can find an online set of them here, other executables there might be of your interest too. The Windows Performance Tools Kit is very nice to diagnose any performance issues, shutdown and boot slowdowns and a lot more...
When you are using your computer for a long time you might want to defragment too, you can either choose a top program or use a free alternative. A few days ago I've sorted my files/directories by name (-a 7) using the free JkDefrag and noticed an increase of performance when starting applications and browsing trough folders, I really like the way it defragments your disk.
Efficiently using your computer also means being able to start your favorite applications very quick, not having to go to your desktop, not having to dig trough your start menu, not needing a big Quick Start bar. You can just press a hotkey, enter some characters and continue working with Launchy!
Do you have any other programs or ideas? Please let us know!
When you are going to improve and optimize your computer or laptop, you might want to see first what programs are being executed, there are a wide variety of programs available for that, but I like to stay close to the Microsoft's solution whenever possible. To my personal experience that method works out as the best.
From the excellent SysInternals Tools Suite you might want to check out Process Explorer, Process Monitor and Automatic Runs. You can find an online set of them here, other executables there might be of your interest too. The Windows Performance Tools Kit is very nice to diagnose any performance issues, shutdown and boot slowdowns and a lot more...
When you are using your computer for a long time you might want to defragment too, you can either choose a top program or use a free alternative. A few days ago I've sorted my files/directories by name (-a 7) using the free JkDefrag and noticed an increase of performance when starting applications and browsing trough folders, I really like the way it defragments your disk.
Efficiently using your computer also means being able to start your favorite applications very quick, not having to go to your desktop, not having to dig trough your start menu, not needing a big Quick Start bar. You can just press a hotkey, enter some characters and continue working with Launchy!
Do you have any other programs or ideas? Please let us know!
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Permalink Reply by rob lamper on -
i use ccleaner,tuneup 2008, to keep my windows vista run smooth
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Permalink Reply by TomWij on -
CCleaner is indeed good, although the registry cleaner sometimes removes wrong things.
(Which was in the past, don't know if this behaviour is still there...)
The other things almost have no use here as I am using Google Chrome.
(I don't like to clean my history in that browser.)
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Permalink Reply by TomWij on
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Have never tried SpeedUpMyPC as my computer is 64 bit only, but seems they added that support if I look to the system requirements page.
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Permalink Reply by Justin G on -
I use tuneup utilities 2009 easy to use especially setting it to auto tune my family members computers. saves me some house calls. Also use REG edit. avast anti virus and AD-aware
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Permalink Reply by JF Mack on -
So far , Ccleaner without any problems ,
Auslogics disk defrag is the fastest one out there (2min.max)
and also , the online "PcPitstop" scan is pretty effective as a "tuning up software" !!! -
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Permalink Reply by JF Mack on
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Some of these groups float around as dead wood !!!
Anyway , since my last post here , I've been running "Advanced system care" and switched to "Smart Defrag" ,
With satisfaction ...
Has anyone tried "Glary utilities" ??? -
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Permalink Reply by TomWij on
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Might seem dead, but yet I respond in an hour...
I'm just not pushing new content into the group unless an increase in activity is worth it.
However, searching for Glary Utilities got me this nice top list of System utilities:
http://www.xmarks.com/topic/system%20tools
Some of the related topics there might be nice too.
The site about Glary Utilities seems to have a lack of information in my eyes.
Have used "Advanced System Care" in the past, but I'm more into optimizing to a greater detail nowadays. It's like hunting for the biggest CPU/MEM/DISK impact and eliminating those so that the idle state of the computer is really idle. Another thing that helps to improve the response of your foreground application is "Process Lasso", worth to check out.
Well, this post is just some random information put together as a small update,
but I'm unsure if I should blow new life into this group, maybe I should start a blog in this subject rather than my current blog which doesn't seem to work out... (yet?) -
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