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    Best Free Software for Windows

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Gintoki, Jan 8, 2008.

  1. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    I did check and didn't see it, sorry.
     
    Jayayess1190, Mar 16, 2008
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    No problem dude, just letting you know. :)
    I've seen them both before. I think i meant to add PC DECRAPIFIER to the list, thanks for reminding me. Also, i don't want to include anything that deals with the registry because people were having problems with such software.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 16, 2008
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  4. Padmé

    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    I have both PC Decrapifier and Free Registry Defrag, but I've always been afraid to try them.
     
    Padmé, Mar 16, 2008
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    LOL? Why have them then...? Why not just back up everything, create restore pt, if you're scared.
     
    McGrady, Mar 16, 2008
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    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Hi.

    another free defrager i just found

    http://www.defraggler.com/

    regards

    John.

    PS. seems a good program,and i have tried most of the free ones, totally defragmented my free space.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Mar 17, 2008
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  7. McGrady

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    That's from the makers of Ccleaner and Recuva. I'm sure its not on this cuz its still BETA. Plus, I looked at SS's, they have typos...so I don't trust it for now. lol
     
    McGrady, Mar 17, 2008
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  8. Gintoki

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    I know of it, it's still in beta and a defrager in beta can do some massive performance damage so I'll keep it off the list until it hits final. Thanks for the suggestion though.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 17, 2008
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  9. deathstick

    deathstick Notebook Evangelist

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    Wow, I'm surprised I haven't recommended this yet: Handbrake
    http://handbrake.fr/
    It's a DVD ripping program that converts to a few output file types.

    Also since when has Auslogic Registry Defrag been off the list?
     
    deathstick, Mar 19, 2008
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  10. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    Thanks for the suggestion. Also, Auslogic Registry Defrag has been off the list since someone complained it messed them up, along with the other registry related programs so i keep them off the list.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 19, 2008
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  11. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    Calvin, why are there no Torrent clients listed like blank or blankblank or did I miss something?
     
    theZoid, Mar 19, 2008
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  12. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    If you could edit out those names that would be nice. But to answer your question, i had to get rid of that section if i wanted to compile the list. I had a good section, but they didn't want anything to do with file sharing so it got kicked.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 19, 2008
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  13. arjunned

    arjunned Notebook Deity

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    hey calvin... have u tried iobit's Advanced WindowsCare v2 Personal??... been using it for the past couple of weeks and caused no problems... :)

    Link
     
    arjunned, Mar 19, 2008
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  14. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    Done, but that's just plain crazy.....I just downloaded a new 1gig linux version using a torrent....
     
    theZoid, Mar 19, 2008
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  15. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    I've tested it and i have to say i think it is absolute garbage. Sorry if that offends you though.
    Now that your question has been answered, please, no more talk of torrents. :)
     
    Gintoki, Mar 19, 2008
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  16. scooberdoober

    scooberdoober Penguins FTW!

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    That program trashed my system. I had to do a complete re-install to get things back to normal.
     
    scooberdoober, Mar 19, 2008
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  17. arjunned

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    :D hehe.. no offence taken.. i've tried pretty much all the softwares you've mentioned in ur list... but i'm a software junkie :p ..so i like to try out new ones.. i obviously only trust ccleaner.. :)

    wow??! seriously? crap.. thanks for the heads up.. :eek:
     
    arjunned, Mar 19, 2008
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    Your welcome. :)

    One of the first things I noticed was that the background of my start menu no longer highlighted with blue, but changed to black. It was pretty ugly. And then I started noticing some performance and stability issues, so I reformatted and did a clean install.

    I've had similar problems with other reg utilities; I plan on staying away from all of them from now on. When my system seems that it's time to really clean up, I'll just re-install clean again. It's not that big of a deal, especially if you have an image of a clean install handy. It can be completed in around 10 minutes or less, and then you have a fresh new system again.
     
    scooberdoober, Mar 20, 2008
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  19. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    Pssss......my lips are sealed....I'll block out all those web sites with links too just to be safe.....lol
     
    theZoid, Mar 20, 2008
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  20. zer0pulse

    zer0pulse Notebook Guru

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    Hi Calvin...I'm just curious...why is it useless? :eek:
     
    zer0pulse, Mar 22, 2008
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  21. Gintoki

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    It tries to be a jack of all trades but does each one poorly. When i used it, it slowed down my system to a crawl, and i had to system restore to get everything back to normal.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 22, 2008
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    auslogics disk defrag sucks. take it off your list.
     
    McGrady, Mar 22, 2008
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  23. Gintoki

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    Can you provide me with some reasons why i should?
     
    Gintoki, Mar 22, 2008
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  24. McGrady

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    It "defrags" way to fast(2mins) on my c drive which is impossible.
    I had 105 gb space remaining, after defrag it went to 100 gb.
     
    McGrady, Mar 22, 2008
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  25. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    Auslogics does its job fast, which is good, and it can't change the amount of free space you have either. If it happened out of the blue, it's most likely System restore.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 22, 2008
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  26. McGrady

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    no. its not system restore. my last restore pt was last nite. i even checked amount of disk space before and after i ran auslogics. 105 before, 100 after.
     
    McGrady, Mar 22, 2008
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  27. Gintoki

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    I am 99.99% sure it's not the defrag that caused it. If you don't like it, then use another application, but this seems like either a secluded incident or chicanery of some sort. So I'll leave it up.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 22, 2008
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  28. THAANSA3

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    So, if I understand correctly, the problem was with Auslogics Registry Defrag and not Auslogic Disk Defrag? I was really going to download the disk defrag program.
     
    THAANSA3, Mar 23, 2008
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  29. McGrady

    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    Disk defrag is fine...personally I think it scans way to fast to actually defrag anything. thats just me though
     
    McGrady, Mar 23, 2008
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  30. THAANSA3

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    I read in your thread that you were having some problems with lost space. Were you ever able to figure out what happened?
     
    THAANSA3, Mar 23, 2008
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    hey calvin.. i decided to try it for some more time... besides, if the system crashes, then i have an excuse to do a clean install of vista (which i'v been wanting to do for quite sometime..!).. :)
    also which version of advanced windows care did you use??
     
    arjunned, Mar 23, 2008
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  32. McGrady

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    Nope. I did that vista sp1 cleaner thing and got 1gb back. but still missing 5gb
     
    McGrady, Mar 23, 2008
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  33. Toys4Boys

    Toys4Boys Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone else had experience w/ERUNT & NTREGOPT? I have used these for several years and more recently on my Vista Business, see link. http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
    ERUNT is a reg. backup program w/ a lot of flexibility if you use cmd line switches or if you aren't familiar w/ or are too lazy to use them, put me in both of these categories, a completely automated mode. It also has an automated restore reg. capability which has come in handy for me.

    NTREGOPT is a reg defrag program that seems to work very nicely but I would be curious if someone w/ greater insight than me has any feedack.
     
    Toys4Boys, Mar 23, 2008
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  34. Gintoki

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    I used the latest free one at the time.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 23, 2008
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  35. arjunned

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    was it v2.7??
     
    arjunned, Mar 23, 2008
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  36. Gintoki

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    I don't remember.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 23, 2008
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  37. McGrady

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    The latest JkDefrag has some new features. O_O
    Has a scheduler, Cleaner, Registry optimization and more.
    Is the registry optimization any good?
     
    McGrady, Mar 23, 2008
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  38. Gintoki

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    I didn't really notice any difference when i used it, but i don't hold any responsibility for anything related to registry. So if you start having problems...
     
    Gintoki, Mar 23, 2008
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  39. McGrady

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    I know. Just asking to see if anyones used it. I probably won't. I'm going to try this new version. brb.
     
    McGrady, Mar 23, 2008
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    McGrady, Mar 23, 2008
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  41. swarmer

    swarmer beep beep

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    Calvin, could you consider adding Sphere Timer?
    http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=69d902f4-6abc-4659-9bae-32aae1724373&l=1
    It's a sidebar gadget. I wouldn't mention it except that it wasn't too easy to find a decent sidebar gadget that had a countdown timer like I wanted. Useful if I have something in the oven, or if I have to leave to catch a train at a certain time.

    EDIT: Hmmm... now that I think about it, maybe this is better off being put in a gadget thread... which maybe just needs to be stickied. I think I found the right thread anyways....
     
    swarmer, Mar 23, 2008
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  42. Gintoki

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    The one i have is JKdefrag GUI. It has a GUI and more features than regular old JKdefrag but it has it at its core so you don't lose any functionality.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 23, 2008
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  43. McGrady

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    Thats weird that Jkdefrag gui is smaller than the other...by alot too.
    Should be opposite.
     
    McGrady, Mar 23, 2008
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    It's most likely compressed.
     
    Gintoki, Mar 23, 2008
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  45. McGrady

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    oh true that
     
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  46. THAANSA3

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    This question is to Calvin or anyone else who has knowledge on the issue: Which program is better to use for HDD encryption, TrueCrype or Cryptainer LE? Is one really better than the other? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using one over the other?
     
    THAANSA3, Mar 23, 2008
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  47. scooberdoober

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    Truecrypt > Cryptainer LE
     
    scooberdoober, Mar 24, 2008
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  48. deathstick

    deathstick Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey, I just noticed that Auslogics Registry defrag creates hidden NTUSER.DAT file chunks everytime you use it to defrag. There's 20+ files there. Is there a way to consolidate these files? (A program to do this would be appreciated).
     
    deathstick, Mar 24, 2008
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  49. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Hi.

    try this

    http://www.defraggler.com/

    it`s still in beta, but i have been using it a couple of weeks and it works great and i have tried all the free ones.

    regards

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Mar 24, 2008
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  50. THAANSA3

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    Thanks for the reply. Have you, or anyone, experienced any problems using TrueCrypt?
     
    THAANSA3, Mar 24, 2008
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