Z12: Vaio Care question about System Tune-up

Hello everyone,

So when most of us received our Z's, one of the first things we did was disable the hard disk defragmenter (which I've done). In Vaio Care under "System Tune-up", there are three other options in addition to "enable hard disk defragmenter": 1) enable system registry defragmenter, 2) enable hard disk cleaner, and 3) enable system registry cleaner. So my question: should I uncheck (disable) any of those three or should I just let them run? Thanks for the help!

 

System registry defragmentation is worthless -- the registry is a hash table and isn't affected measurably by being fragmented.

Hard disk cleaner is a good thing, if it could be trusted. However, no single program has any magic scrying device that tells you whether no-one uses a file anymore, and indiscriminate deletions can crash your system or worse (corrupt your data). Pretty much the only safe HD cleaning is to delete files in %TEMP% that are older than the last boot, plus files you have downloaded and which you don't need anymore.

System registry cleaner has the same problems as file system cleaners, but even more so. In Windows Vista and 7, there's no measurable effect of cleaning the registry, apart from making programs stop working the way they should. Yes, the registry gets horribly bloated over time, but it doesn't affect speed anymore.

 

I let them run. They claim to catch quite a few issues, and I let them fix things themselves. So far, nothing's gone wrong, so even it's a purely psychological benefit, I'm all for it

 

Thanks for the replies. Guess I'll just toss a coin to determine whether to keep those boxes checked or not