Also, the makers of CCleaner and Recuva have a free Defragger also named Defraggler, currently in Beta though.

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yup, with you on that eval Leo...tried Defraggler + although it has an impressive interface + really admire what its counterpart CCleaner does for cleanup after an installation, its results were not lasting...the afortmentioned apps in Reply #19 truly had the most lasting effects + impact

well hey Leo...was doing the family thing all this weekend as it was Thankgiving here in Canada...while at my Mother's place for dinner on Monday, was definitely looking forward to installing + running TuneUp Utilities 2007 to see the effect + how thorough it would be as her desktop definitely needed something as it was terribly sluggish + I was ready to re-format but stopped short of that due to not being able to get all of her subscribed licences back from IncrediMail so wasn't about to lose that on her...well, lemme tell ya, TuneUp Utilities gets a high five from me for what it offers in its utilities suite of repair apps + really does thoroughly optimize + clean up the registry as well as C drive leaving a system much more efficient; corrected + optimized her Internet settings to something better, cleaned out all of prev app install files + reg entries that I thought were removed w CCleaner + PConPoint...the Utility really is generously packed with repair apps that are a must for anyone who hasn't reformatted or done a fresh 'restore' in a while;the subscription price really is a bargain for all that it does + offers;bonus points it also has settings to schedule a 'maintenance' at whatever cycle is considered appropo to keep whatever repairs were done maintained...+ today, now that I have time, will try it on my wireless laptop...bottom line, excellent referral Leo..thx

I have tried this program and it does ok job. I don't no how compare it to any other program except Cclean. I did not really notice any speed up time on reboot, but Cclean did not speed it up much either.

Im going to give tuneUp Utilities a try. I will let you know the out come.

Nice Post Leo the Lion

I've used TuneUp Utilities for close to 2 years now. Excellent programs. They just plain work well. The 2 programs in the suite that are great for everyday maintenance are the Registry Cleaner and the Storage Cleaner. Both are activated either directly or by scheduling 1-click maintenance to autorun.

It also includes a straight forward way to manage all auto-start programs(doesn't work on everything though). The average user will find numerous unneeded and unwanted programs that have installed themselves on your computer many without your knowledge that now autorun evertime you reboot. I have a system with a gigabyte of RAM running XP and it was reduced to under 500 MBs until I got TuneUp Utilities and cleaned house on them. Now back to around 700 MB's after reboot and that's no joke.

TuneUp Utilities includes a Registry defragger(speeds up hard disk access times), but does not include a hard disk defragger, I use MS's standard XP hard disk defragger for that chore. Anyway enough from me. Good post Leo!  

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I won't buy or even look at program that has word Norton or Macfee in it.

These are the 2007 results so far of a poll over at Neowin on best defrag tools:-

Your Choice?DirMS/Buzzsaw [ 2 ] [0.23%]

Diskeeper [ 246 ] [28.37%]

Norton Speed Disk [ 7 ] [0.81%]

O&O Defrag [ 171 ] [19.72%]

PageDefrag [ 2 ] [0.23%]

PerfectDisk [ 261 ] [30.10%]

Vopt [ 6 ] [0.69%]

Windows Disk Defragmenter [ 119 ] [13.73%]

Other (Please specify below) [ 53 ] [6.11%]


Total Votes: 2059

Wow, look at that, I'm using the third best one so far O&O Defrag.   

I did a little more digging and TuneUp Utilities does give the info .exe

just on one of the 15 them does not give info.

Tune UP Utilities get the job done

I use Diskeeper Pro 2007 for both automatic and manual defrag of my drives. Great defragger..consumes barely any resources and defrags the drives nicely and quickly. It also has boot-time defrag and the option to resize the master file table. Try out the free trial versions at the diskeeper site to see if it suits your requirements; I'd suggest the Pro version rather than the Home (basic) or ProPremier (not cheap!).

Lesvind, that's a good recommnedation as it seems - from my research - that people who know far more about computers than I do either use Diskeeper or PerfectDisk. Fuzzy, MST certainly seems to have a 'following' too.

When it comes to 'Utilities' - my research around the net and looking what the 'pros' use, seems to point to the program that Gary mentioned earlier in the thread - JV16 Power Tools 2007 and also TuneUp..........