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Anybody know any good system utilities suites? im talking about something that cleans up your registry and what not, already got couple of good defragers so i dont need those
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dicecca112 wrote:ccleaner
Second. CCleaner is really good.

What are some good defraggers that you're using? I use the one that Windows XP has. Aren't they more or less the same?
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according to a fairly recent article my buddy has been harping on for that last 2 months... defragmentation is pointless with modern hardware. In general the article stated that you won't see enough of an improvement in seek/read/write times of modern hard drives to make up for the time spent defragging.

I still use it on machines that have issues, or on my own machine if I remove files that are greater than 10gb in total size. I use the XP included tool. IMO, YMMV, just say no.
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I'd like to see that article. Being a CS grad, I believe he is wrong, because that is the inherent flaw of how NTFS file systems treat the writing of files.
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I'll email my buddy to see if he can get me the info on it.
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Read this article in Maximum PC. I stil run Diskeeper on my XP machines and Auslogics Disk Defrag on my Vista laptop.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_di ... difference
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i use raxco perfect disk (to defrag big stuff) and ultimate defrag to get all my games to the outer ring
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Ccleaner for the normal utilities and Diskeeper for the defrag.............they work great for me..................... :mrgreen:
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I'll have to check out Ccleaner.
I can tell you what not to use....Registry Mechanic. Unless of course you plan to reformat real soon cause that's what you'll be doing just after.
I even put in a system restore point before I ran it...ruined me.
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I wonder if they considered how Vista's file caching works and its impact on the testing.
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CCleaner, JKDefrag, PageDefrag and NTREGOPT are pretty much what you would need.
CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/
JkDefrag http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
NTREGOPT http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
PageDefrag http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 97426.aspx
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