I am needing your recommendations on some utilities that have been proved to be both effective and safe in the following catagories (either freeware or commercial):
Windows Cleaner
Registry Cleaner and Optimizer
Defrag & Optimizer
Secure delete of files and free space
Undelete and Recovery of deleted files
Thanks for your help.
CCleaner(■■■■-cleaner),link at bottom is probably the most used Windows cleaner,explore the advanced settings for 35pass Gutmann cleaning.
Also check out Revo uninstallerhttp://www.revouninstaller.com/
The list goes on if you search the forum a bit.
Matty
ps Look HERE
NCleaner (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) (:m*)
Ccleaner (:a*) (:a*) (:a*) (:a*)
Defrag & Optimizer[url=http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download]Auslogics diskdefrag[/url] (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) [url=http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html]Iobit Smartdefrag[/url] (:a*) (:a*) (:a*) (:a*)
Secure delete of files and free space Undelete and Recovery of deleted files[url=http://www.revouninstaller.com/]Revo uninstaller[/url] (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) (:m*) [url=http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4]ZSoft Uninstaller[/url] (:a*) (:a*) (:a*)
Please note :
Xan
Just wondering: why do you not like Zsoft that much?
I say it’s better because it has
Xan
& why do you think NCleaner is better than CCleaner?
nCleaner deletes more. Though CCleaner is safer 
Because :
Xan
Even though I generally recommend CCleaner, I suspect it has ruined the Windows Installer function on my dad’s computer. I’m not sure though. Personally I’ve used CCleaner hundreds of times without any problems whatsoever.
For secure deleting of files and empty space, check out Eraser. It’s also free.
LA
Harddrive defrag: JkDefrag (free software)
Glary Utilities,
is the best in the west, because it has over 15 tools!!!
it does:
Windows Cleaner
Registry Cleaner and Optimizer
Defrag & Optimizer (registrie)
Secure delete of files and free space
Undelete and Recovery of deleted files
and a lot moooooreeeeee… (:LOV) (:LOV) (:KWL)
Hi bobicool
Does Glary Utilities have an option to backup and restore if you are not happy with what it cleans? What about an option as well to do a reg. backup before deleting?
Thanks
John
reg backup yes,
complete backup no. I recommend the windows backup.
Thank You
Wow!
Thanks so much for all the great advise and leads on good apps.
On another forum, someone suggested jv16 Power Tools as well as Glary Utilities. I know that jv16 is not free, and that is OK.
I am wondering which is most effective and safest in dealing with the registry either Glary or jv16?
All replies will be appreciated.
Do you think it was the registry cleanning that may have done the damage?
I’ve been thinking a bit more of it, and I still don’t know what’ve happened, but I’m leaning towards the theory that RegSeeker was the cause of the damage…
LA
I’d be more leaning to think that RegSeeker was the culprit, CCleaner never deleted anything improperly that I know. It’s what I use and I don’t care that there are programs that delete more, my registry isn’t slowing down my computer. Greyowl, when deleting files with any of these programs, be sure to know what you’re deleting, since you may miss it later, and remember that erasing the index.dat files is pointless.
For defragmenting I used JkDefrag for a long time, but eventually I found out that if it’s really faster than the Windows defragger (even though it uses the same APIs) is because it neglects free space defragging. And once that has bult up, the minute after you’ve defragged with JkDefrag, any sizeable newly created file will be broken in over 100 fragments. :-TD I now use the Windows defragger, that defrags every file on my disc, including the critical system ones, with one sweep, in 15 minutes (not fast enough?). Again I don’t care about defraggers with more features, they cause more disc usage than they prevent, and I don’t think I’d notice the difference in speed.
Thanks for the information and advise.
I don’t quite understand about JkDefrag. If there is free space, there would not be anything there to defrag would there. JkDefrag also optimizes the disk to allow room for temp files on the faster part of the disk and to put apps on the fast part of disk. Is this of any value? I am quite interested in your comments because I have been giving JkDefrag a try lately.
Yeah, I like JkDefrag. Could you tell me more about JkD Japo?