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My Vista is dirty, help me clean it!

MovitzMovitz Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm looking for a free program that can do some basic maintenance work on my computer. Clear tempfiles, registry defrag, HDD defrag, registry cleanup and stuff like that. I find that the built-in functions to do that in Windows generally sucks. Any one got any suggestions?

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  • The CatThe Cat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    What do you mean by 'sucks'? I mean, I'd be interested in a one-stop shop program like this too, but the only weak point I really see with windows is the registry cleaning stuff. I'm curious as to how people judge these things...

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  • MovitzMovitz Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The Cat wrote: »
    What do you mean by 'sucks'? I mean, I'd be interested in a one-stop shop program like this too, but the only weak point I really see with windows is the registry cleaning stuff. I'm curious as to how people judge these things...

    I've noticed that the cleanup function doesn't empty all temp files and internet files. The Regcleaner and defragger is nonexistant and the normal defragger is pretty bad. If you run it once and then recheck it's basically no difference. If you use, say Norton or OO, it's much better.

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  • JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    There's like, 30 of these of threads on Moe's Tech forum.

    One of the more popular recommendations is CCleaner.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Registry cleaner/defrag is pretty much snake oil.

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  • Desert_Eagle25Desert_Eagle25 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I use TuneUp Utilities 2008.

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    1. Format c:/
    2. Find a copy of Windows XP and install it.
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

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  • MovitzMovitz Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Spawnbroker wrote: »
    1. Format c:/
    2. Find a copy of Windows XP and install it.
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

    Oh LoLz Vistaiztehslowww!!!1!11one
    Registry cleaner/defrag is pretty much snake oil.

    Yeah, I figured as much. I'm just thinking that it can't be bad to do it and I'm looking for a program to do it all with one click of a button. I'm guessing that doesn't exist though.

    Thanks for the CCleaner tip Justin. That was pretty much what I was looking for. For defragging I'll just use whatever. (Running jkDefrag now)

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I use AusLogic Disk Defrag, no point in the registry cleaner, every comment on Auslogic's Registry Cleaner was along the lines of "it works great! But nothing changed and everything is just as fast/slow as before"

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Spawnbroker wrote: »
    1. Format c:/
    2. Find a copy of Windows XP and install it.
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

    Ha ha, if you didn't post it, I would have.

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