Puran Utilities

No, I'm not spying on you. Your private information is widely available and is posted by you, no one forced to make it available.

As for Relevant Knowledge this is from their EULA:

See http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/18/about-relevant-knowledge/
Also http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/rlvknlg.exe.html

If you don't call that spyware, too bad. Good Luck with Puran Utilities!

 

guess its a good thing i got the stand alone puran defrag before it wasnolonger available..

 

@zfactor I think you got me wrong there. I meant Puran Defrag is not linked from front page of Puran Software but it and all other utilities can be individually downloaded. Here's the Puran Defrag page -

http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag.html

I meant the above page and other utilities pages are linked from the Puran Utilities page. Look at the icons at http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Utilities.html

Click any utility name there to open its page.

 

ahh okay thanks for the clarification

 

The individual utilities have to be installed or can run as standalone?

 

Have to be installed.

 

You can't exclude only the scan of empty software keys. Ideally (since deleting these keys can cause problems) to have this disabled by default, with the option to enable it if wanted. Vit Regsitry Fix has is disabled by default for the same reason, and even warns about enabling. The better registry cleaners (e.g. Registry Mechanic, TuneUp Utilities) don't scan for empty software keys.

That is good.

5) Unlike many others, it is very easy on your system resources. Even old PCs wont cry running it set aside new ones.

I haven't tried this yet, but what is unique about it? Uninstallers which search for left over files and registry keys for uninstalls have been around for about 20 years. Version 1.1 of MicroHelp's Uninstaller (which became CyberMedia Uninstaller, then McAfee Unistaller was released in 1993). Also, of course now days there are a number of uninstallers, inccluding Revo which do the same.

Again, what is different from this that makes it "one of its kind" compared to the many similar products available?

I fail to see the uniqueness.


Thanks for posting here, and I hope you can improve the software and answer my questions.

 

If you are going to compare the products simply on the basis of description, it would lead to anything. As I suggested before, give it a try keeping everything out and with the fact that it is free and see it as a complete package and compare it to others available. You will find the difference and will actually see which one you want to keep and I am sure Puran Utilities will secure its place.

For registry cleaner, can anyone please let me know with an example on how empty software keys deletion can be harmful? This is just a curiosity and I am not questioning anyone. These empty keys are usually the leftovers from uninstalled software and if any software is keeping these keys intentionally, I think that software becomes questionable. I have been simply scanning and fixing by my registry cleaner for months now and have never encountered a problem.

Thanks

 

I also am interested in the empty key thing. Say I uninstall CCleaner and afterwards there is a "Piriform" or "CCleaner" key with sub keys and no data........How is removing this harmful?

 

It's nice to software developers here in Wilders. Welcome dude!

 

You keep the Babylon toolbar installed on your computer to know the experience? The experience of what? having spyware on your computer? WOW

I do not trust any software or developer that include spyware such as the ask.com toolbar or Babylon Toolbar.

Anyway, to give you the benefit of the doubt, I installed Puran Utilities and for meh, the only useful thing was Puran Defrag.

I wished I could've replaced CCleaner with the Disk Cleaner in Puran Utilities but I couldn't for the following reasons:
1) It takes ages to scan for temp / junk files whereas CCleaner does it almost instantly

2) Your Cleaner missed the following temp files / folders from my computer, so really, I don't know what is it cleaning?
a] C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp (it was full of files and folders even after cleaning it
b] C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download (nice 1 GB of unwanted Windows updates that were installed but Microsoft never deletes those files after the updates have been performed yet, even Puran Utilities didn't touch those ancient setup files / windows updates)
3) I tried adding the above folders manually using the Add Files button, but you can only add files that already exist! Really?!?! What's the use? I don't know the names of temp files and they may not be there at the time I want to add the folder, you totally forgot the option to add the entire folder to the list of cleaned files/directories.

No offense but seems like you are just learning how to develop apps and I respect that but I lost my trust for you and will immediately uninstall Puran Defrag after you said that you keep such spyware on your computer such as Babylon Toolbar, this comes to show how much you know about PCs / security.

Good luck with your ongoing development on Puran Utilities

 

I am still dubious of your claims, but I will try the uninstaller to see what is so "unique" about it.

Very occasionally when you install software it creates an empty software key in the registry, and this key is actually needed. If the key is deleted, next time you run the software, Windows installer will launch and try and reinstall the software. Even just launching Explorer will often be enough to launch Windows installer (it may even happen at every boot), and if you cancel the reinstall (since the reinstall won't work - as usually the install source is the temporary folder, and the install files there have long since been deleted), Windows installer will launch again - and will do this several times before it gives up.

 

Thank you very much! I had an occasion in the past with another reg cleaner where everytime I restart my PC windows live messenger will run the installation again and I never knew why! now I know why!!

cheers man

 

Dont think i will be installing this somehow.Judging the posts ive seen on this thread and notably the attitude of the developer i would consider these "utilities" or whatever you want to call them as mere SNAKE OIL.
Regards.

 

I did actually try the uninstaller, and when using the force uninstall it lets you uninstall programs not listed under Add/Remove programs. You tell it where the main exe file for the program is and then it try to locate all files and reg keys for it.

However, once again, this is nothing new or unique, some other uninstallers can do this too. Also, the standard uninstall just launches the regular uninstall for software - there's no scan for leftover files/reg keys.

There was a new version of Puran Utilities released in the last 24 hours. However there appear to be no obvious changes.

 

No so much snake oil imo, but nothing remarkable, and does not live up the developers claims.

 

This is not a remark toward Puran at all, I actually really like the Defrag. But I really wonder, why does nearly every software vendor in this world create a 10 billion'th "collection pack" of merely all the same vaporware, snakeoil, and some other exact duplicates of services that are in the OS itself, only to be packed in some colorful jacket. Is there really so much money to be made by these toolbars & other spyware related "goodies" ?

 

I like it so far. Tried registry cleaner and defrag. Noticed a quicker system after their use. It's all packaged together and so far so good.

 

According to Majorgeeks it was updated to 1.0.2 today:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Puran_Utilities_d7894.html

 

my god thats pretty scary.if you use their registry cleaner you would be reinstalling windows again..i will give these utilities a miss.Im sticking with ccleaner.

 

Yep, that's the version I'm using. Nice to be able to try software with reliable images backing me up just in case.

 

It's all about grabing a share of the n00b market. For every seasoned computer user that comes across such a set of utilities there will be many more new users who have just gotten to grips with understanding the very basics of the computers. In most cases such novice users won't think twice about downloading and installing any old utility that markets itself properly.

In my view Puran Utitilies is nothing special. I have come to almost despise the lack of imagination of such developers who all seem to copy each other's features and package it in a slightly different interface. We don't need another 'cleaning utility'. What we really need is a proper light virtualization tool of the caliber of Shadow Defender, a tool that can withstand and fully undo even the sturdiest of rootkit infections. There are only a few of those, and out of them only Shadow Defender can fully undo a TDSS infection and also fully remove the rootkit's file system. If you possess the coding talent to create such a tool Mr Gupta and include it for free in Puran Utilities, maybe then you can really claim that your software includes something unique. Well, almost unique. Shadow Defender can already do this anyway.

 

It's even nicer to be able to switch between different setups in 2 seconds with a simple reboot: The beauty of instant recovery software (I'm using Rollback RX ATM but eagerly waiting for the new Comodo Time Machine 3.0 to come out, it will be freeware )

I installed Puran, tested it, nothing special. Rebooted to my previous snapshot, it was all gone. Haven't had the need to use my Acronis backup for more than a year now (I only load it once every few months, update everything in it, then take a new image). IRS is invaluable for day-to-day recoveries, software testing, overclocking (you can fully undo crashes), and loads more. I feel sorry for the users who are oblivious of the benefits and the superb degree of control over your system's setup that IRS can offer.

 

Didn't know Comodo was releasing a new version of Time Machine. Now I'll keep an eye on their products page . Related to the thread: I've only ever used Puran Defrag out of all Puran's software, didn't seem to cause any problems, but that was a few months ago.