Top tools for Vista tuning safe for Thinkpads?

TuneXP 1.5 and CCleaner seem to be loudly applauded here: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3945


TuneXP 1.5 "Basically, it takes all your boot files and places them at the front of the disk." And the software was released a couple years ago. I wonder if running this would be risky on Thinkpad X200 Vista Home Basic 32bit, e.g., will it damange the Lenovo partitions?

CCleaner cleans up Vista registry, but will it run into conflict with ThinkVantage registry monitor, which I see in the running processes via TaskManager ?

Anyone who has experience? Thanks a lot.

 

I've run cc-cleaner and never had any problems

 

Not sure how CCleaner may conflict with your monitoring application, but Vista *should* automatically optimize your boot files. Most people do not have their computer on/idle long enough for this to occur. If you do a search you will find a thread with considerably more information and an artificial solution to run the internal boot file optimization. I have unfortunately lost the information, but the user was quite helpful and a quick search should get it for you.

 

Thanks, I went around and got some ideas.

I read some posts saying that Windows boot optimizer (as included and by default on since Xp sp2 if not earlier) should not be used together with thirdparty defragment tools, as they might have conflicting objectives in mind.

So what is the suggestion overall? Maybe just count on Vista and its included defragment tools for anything ? That sounds safe and hopefully is not too suboptimal.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=2737834&highlight=gary

Check that, i tried it and i use diskkeeper to defrag. Don't know if that little trick helped, my boot time seems the same.