What are your favorite Windows PC maintenance utilities?

[Bytemrk]

After a few of us managed to hijack Lewy's Word 2007 thread.. I thought I'd pose the question...

What are your favorite windows PC maintenance utilities ? - registry mainenance.. anti spyware etc..


I just know this will bring all the Linux and MAC evangelists out to play...

I use all three - so have no intention on starting a battle of the OSes...

But the fact is the majority of users on this forum will be Windows users - right Inc? :wasntme:

I thought there will be some of those users who could benefit from some of the great free tools out there..


What tools do you use to keep your PC running sweet?



Mark

[WhiteD3]

At home - Me...fortified by beer and red wine.
At work - Me...fortified by coffee and lots of swearing.

[feral]

Anti Virus - Avast

Registry Cleaner - use to be CCleaner but now Glary Utilities

Spyware - Malwarebytes Anti-malware, Spybot, Spyblaster


mmmm....I think thats it.

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Lyndon

Discovery Td5....Enjoy responsibly

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Mrs Pedro scored a virus the other day,, AVG (that she runs) didnt want to know,
loaded Avira (that I run) and cleaned 'em up.
Comodo for registry (and firewall, stop laughing Inc,,,)
and Ccleaner for normal cleanup.

[werdan]

cmd.exe :D

[Bytemrk]

At home - Me...fortified by beer and red wine.
At work - Me...fortified by coffee and lots of swearing.


That is awesome.... I run a similar system.... mind if I steal the quote ? :D

Mark

[TDV6]

I use both CCleaner and Glary Utilities as each has different search parameters to do the same basic job.

However if it was only to be one then it would be Glary Utilities

Ryall

[spudboy]

DiskKeeper - Excellent defragmenter.

[Narangga]

At work - Me...fortified by coffee and lots of swearing.

Bugger - you beat me to it! :(

[mjm295]

I don't want to jump up and shout MAC or LINUX but......I have windoze on 2 home laptops and 2 work desktops and a work laptop. I'm just very careful what I do with it. "nurse it through" so to speak.

If I need to download things that might even have the slightest chance of being dodgy I jump on the Red Hat box.

I am Red Hat certified and it is my job, I look after all the red hat at StarCity and will be taking over the Keno too once the License comes through but these machines come with windows and they work so I use them. I play about far too much at work to be bothered re building my home machines, and I'm not allowed to re-build the work ones. (corporate orders)

At home - Me...fortified by beer, red wine, white wine, the occasional Bundy and a Linux box
At work - Me...fortified by coffee, swearing and lots of linux boxes :wasntme:



SWMBO said she reboots, failing that she calls me.

[abaddonxi]

I'm using Prevx and Malwarebytes at the moment.

I wish they'd remember to reboot before they called me. Only do support on family member's computers these days, and hate the way they turn into zombies who can't even find the any key as soon as there's a problem.

[Sprint]

CWShredder and experience......

[DiscoCam]

Just Avast for antivirus.

Nothing else as my XP Pro/Vista/Win7 triple boot machine just works!:o

[ozzirt]

RegistryFix, It's the only registry tool that I've ever used that actually made a noticeable difference to the performance of my 'puta.

[George130]

I use a couple of tricks.

del *.*
Format c:

If these fail then 1 glass of water in the vent cools it down and stops the virus malware from spreading.

[abaddonxi]

I use a couple of tricks.

del *.*
Format c:

If these fail then 1 glass of water in the vent cools it down and stops the virus malware from spreading.

I hope that's what you're using for prevention.

[maca]

In terms of virus protection I use:

ClamWin (Free Antivirus for Windows - Open source GPL virus scanner (http://www.clamwin.com/)) which is based on the ClamAV engine (Clam AntiVirus (http://www.clamav.net/)).

If I am going to dodgy internet sites or executing programs I expect may be infected I just run them in:
VMWare Server (VMware Server, Free VMware Download for Virtual Server Consolidation (http://www.vmware.com/products/server/)).

The best thing about the above solutions is that they are all open source.
But an even better solution is
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LINUX (or Solaris, or Mac OSX, or BSD, or HP-UX, or AIX, or IRIX, or VMS, or OS2), but for God's sake just not any M$ OS.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Took longer than I thought,,,:angel:

[Bytemrk]

Took longer than I thought,,,:angel:

:p some people just help themselves Pedro.. ;)

Mark

[HangOver]

CCleaner

[haydent]

glary utilities

O & O Defrag

[Chucaro]

For virus NOD32
Malwarebytes and Ad-Aware for the rest of intrudres.
I do not have any problems in the last 3 years :)

[Mutley]

For business/corporates - out of all the ones I've tested, I've found sophos to be the best - especially if you're running exchange within the environment as you can have the puremessage component of it - best spam removal tool I've used.

For the desktop:-

AV - Sophos or for Freebies - Avast! or AVG
Defrag - Defraggler
Spyware - Malwarebytes
Accidental Deletion - Recuva
General Cleanup - CCleaner

[JDNSW]

Probably the most useful is a Knoppix boot disk - you can use this to back up everything without spreading the problem all over your hard disk.

John