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It's a fact of life for Windows PC users: they pay for the OS' versatility and compatibility with an increased vulnerability to viruses, malware, and spyware. Systems are loaded with the remains of programs that don't remove themselves properly, and useless system files that tax the system.
Here are 12 utilities that will help you keep your PC running fast. Included in the line-up are game-boosting software titles and programs that continually scan your computer for software that would slow it down.
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Unless you mean that there are 12 programs that will optimise my PC.
What are you talking about? It's listed, albeit at the very end.
Registry cleaners, ram boosters and cleaners are crap. None of them work.
You're missing our award-winning defrag software PerfectDisk that not only prevents most fragmentation from occurring but also uses patented SMARTPlacement intelligent filing system according to usage which slows the refragmentation process, while StealthPatrol auto-optimizes your system in the background during idle times or screensaver mode. SSD Optimize is also an SSD performance enhancer that doesn't defrag the SSD but rather consolidates free space.
Our new automatic disk caching software, PerfectCache, can improve system performance 1000% - which means 10x performance speed - whether you have an SSD or not. In fact, PerfectCache used on a HDD can outperform SSDs.
11 maybe. Supercopier does what it promises.
Try unstoppable copier to copy files with errors that you still want to keep.
Old Norton Utilities did automatically or manually shifted non-changing files to the beggining of the disk (slow) and moved .386 swap file to the end.
That's a nice one.
But the PerfectCache is obviously a "mostly every computer has twice the RAM it needs, let's use the the other half as a violent cache"
Everyone knows 1000% is a lie, you should come with a 20-30% increase and people might give it a try.
while registry cleaners can help in rare situations they often cause more problems than they fix as they rely on a database of what the makers of the cleaner feel should be in the registry and any thing different is seen as a error and removed. (eg run cccleaner on a system with the latest audigy 2 ZS drivers for windows xp and it will break the EAX console, requiring the drivers to be uninstalled and manually cleaned then reinstalled.
Most memory booster apps actually slow the system down because they don't actually unload background processes, they simply cause a chance of events similar to what happens when you launch a large program that is requesting a large amount of memory. Items not related to the active process are pushed to virtual memory. This causes issues such as when you try to do anything beside use the 1 program you freed up memory for, the system remains laggy for a while as it moves things from virtual memory, to memory again.
windows 98 benefited from a registry cleaning before launching a large application but windows xp and up does not need one as the OS does a good job of freeing up memory when a program request a large amount of memory (memory for idle apps are moved to virtual memory as the program request more memory.
don't believe me, launch a large program while it is launching you will see memory usage go down a little then shoot up, and as the program uses more you will see this happen more and more, the memory usage goes down slightly before going up. a memory booster does not do this as this process requires the OS to actually monitor the program you want to run
anyway the memory management in windows xp, and even in windows vista and 7 are better than any program you can buy to do the same task
launch a large program in windows 7 and the superfetch data is deleted and the memory for idle or background apps are moved to virtual memory as needed (as the program request more memory)
It is the current bst way of dealing with a limited amount of RAM,
a memory booster basically tries to trick the OS into thinking that it needs 100% of the memory installed causing the OS to free all of what it deems unnecessary, (this included memory used by much of explorer.exe, memory used by any program you have running, and memory dealing with any libraries and objects used commonly by the OS but not vital to keep the system running stably.
The problem is you cant the items so once you try to do anything involving them, you get like 30 seconds of hard drive thrashing
@juan the more memory one has, the more effective PerfectCache can be
http://blog.raxco.com/blog/all-things-perfectdisk-and-defrag/perfectcache-automatic-disk-caching-to-improve-pc-and-server-performance
or better yet, test it out yourself. PerfectCache comes with a Free 30-Day Trial at Raxco.com.
As for the other stuff, most of them are melded in Windows 7 really well. The defragger and memory management of 7 is really good. Only thing that I use there is Driver Cleaner on a USB and CCleaner. Supercopier looks promising, though. Might pick that one up sometime in the future.
As a rule of thumb, if a piece of software could make windows run faster, MSFT would have already included this functionality in the OS. You're not going to get any real benefits from dubious third party hacks.
Having said that, I have used CCleaner to mop up registry entries that no longer point to anything - buy I did not expect (and did not receive) any performance benefit - I was just clearing up the mess left by a user that had decided to go on an ad-banner clicking spree (/facepalm).