Best Utility Program?

danceMB · 13 Jan 2006 at 12:13

Tried looking for a thread about the best utility program around at the moment?

I have so far been using System Mechanic Pro 6, but have been hearing reports that it is not really of much beneficial use to Windows at the end of the day.

In peoples experience/knowledge, what do you find the best? I dont mind paying for software that will be of good use and keep my machine speedy & optimised

AJUK · 13 Jan 2006 at 12:18

Without doubt TuneUp 2006:

http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/

uknorthboy · 13 Jan 2006 at 12:22

Another vote for tuneup utilities very good at it's job and there is a free trial period

danceMB · 14 Jan 2006 at 02:37

Have just tried what you have said, and this program really does work a treat, I have never seen a utility make such a change to my computer, whether it will hold its speed is another thing entirely, plus its very fast when it runs any checkers.

I think I will now be moving away from System Mechanic Pro 6, saving myself £45 and a lot of head aches!

Me being curious, as you seem to know all, whats the best defragger? Is it between Diskeeper and PerfectDisk 7.0?

kimandsally · 14 Jan 2006 at 08:19

danceMB said:
Have just tried what you have said, and this program really does work a treat, I have never seen a utility make such a change to my computer, whether it will hold its speed is another thing entirely, plus its very fast when it runs any checkers.

I think I will now be moving away from System Mechanic Pro 6, saving myself £45 and a lot of head aches!

Me being curious, as you seem to know all, whats the best defragger? Is it between Diskeeper and PerfectDisk 7.0?

I use Diskeeper it's pretty fast and easy to use but I'm not too certain how good it is comared to Perfect Disk.

AJUK · 14 Jan 2006 at 09:51

Diskeeper and PerfectDisk are both excellent, Diskeeper actually developed the defragger for Windows and so it does integrate very well. I have found PerfectDisk to be a little better in sorting things out, not much between them though. TuneUp2006 and PerfectDisk is the best maintenance combination I have found.