What's Your Favorite Maintenance Program?

[Jbmoar]

Choose Your Favorite System Utilities Program

[Global Force]

Where's FDISK? Maintenance means different thing's to different people. ;)

GF

[zapjb]

TU2006. The best.;D

[Rmus]

Don't need any. (where is the "none" option to vote for)

C:\ is locked down by Deep Freeze so nothing needs maintaining, since it's restored to previous state on reboot.

regards,

-rich
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[sweater]

I am sure all of the above mentioned are for sale and w a good price tags...;D

I only uses freewares... 8) They can do almost the same job w their own specialities. ;)

[WSFuser]

i liked system mechanic 3.x but its gotten progessively worse since. now i stick to tuneup utilities and ccleaner.

[ErikAlbert]

Don't need them. ShadowUser will take care of it and alot more ...

[bellgamin]

I use both Fix-It and Ace. Fix-it has been a mainstay on my computer since 1997, back when it was owned by Ontrack.

[yahoo]

Another vote for TuneUp Utilities

[nicM]

Ace for more than a year, and very happy with it ;D

[Carver]

I am trialing Tune Up Utilities 2006 now, today they sent me an ofer to sell me a licence for USD 24.99 till december 31, I will have to take them up on their offer. I would Buy it anyway, Its a great program.

[dadkins]

TU 2006

[muf]

Ace Utilities. Indispensible.

muf

[wedge]

Using Fix-It right now. Tuneup Utilities would be my 2nd choice.

[bpm3k]

How come you don't have an "other" option?

I use a free selection of tools:

CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/): CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.

Eraser (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/): an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

ERUNT (http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/): Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP.

MyUninstaller (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html): MyUninstaller is an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system.

NTREGOPT (http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/): Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP.

PageDefrag (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html): defragment paging files and Registry hives.

RegSeeker (http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm): a powerful registry cleaner and can display various informations like your startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much more ! With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS ! Now RegSeeker includes a file tool to search for duplicate files, bad shortcuts and more !

And of course windows native chkdsk and defrag.