Jv16 Powertools or Ccleaner?

Greenlizard0

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Which should I use to keep things running well? I've been reading about Powertools and it seems it's more comprehensive than Ccleaner.

However it's not free anymore whereas Ccleaner is, and it's still updated everynow and again..
 
I've not used Jv16 Powertools much preferring CCleaner instead.

What does Jv16 Powertools do that CCleaner doesn't? There might be a program that can cover the difference and so mean you can use CCleaner as it is free and updated.
 
Hmm I might try Regseeker again. It didn't work on my XP32 installation but I'm using V64 now so will give it a whirl...

The defragger I use is JK defrag which is supposed to be a truely awesome free one. I can't remember the name of that website which looked at all the free ones but there was a comparison a while back by somebody.
 
Hmm Regseeker appears to be working well. And it's found a lot of things that Ccleaner hasn't. Could be onto a winner here..

Edit it's found 737 things! Crikey - but it also appears to be stuck on 99% and crashed on exit :/
 
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Greenlizard0 said:
Hmm Regseeker appears to be working well. And it's found a lot of things that Ccleaner hasn't. Could be onto a winner here..

Edit it's found 737 things! Crikey - but it also appears to be stuck on 99% and crashed on exit :/
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I sometimes get that. It takes a while to get to 100% from 99%. And closing RegSeeker at ANY time during the "scan" makes it crash I find.

Greenlizard0 said:
Haha :p it's not very pretty on the eye but it does the job :)
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Hmm. Why is it doing all the disks? It did my C: and my D: which are separate disks but it is now doing my external HDD as well. Apart from turning the external HDD off is there anyway to tell JkDefrag what drives to run on?
 
JV in its day was freeware, but after years of development it sold out to Shareware.

Was pretty good at the time and was regarded as the safest and probrably the best reg cleaner on the market. What state it is in now i have no idea

But, CCleaner is probrably your safest bet today. It only does a basic sweep of the registry but i think its all you need to do really
 
Found out I can make shortcuts to JkDefrag and pass some commands to it. Means I'd have loads for my PC so I'm sticking with Defraggler.

Just use CCleaner for cleaning files off your PC and RegSeeker for registry cleaning, unless RegSeeker crashes too often. :)
 
MarcLister said:
Hmm. Why is it doing all the disks? It did my C: and my D: which are separate disks but it is now doing my external HDD as well. Apart from turning the external HDD off is there anyway to tell JkDefrag what drives to run on?
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Not really, I usually just let it do all my drives or I turn it off manually. It's kind of an annoying feature really..
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Not really, I usually just let it do all my drives or I turn it off manually. It's kind of an annoying feature really..
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I looked in the documentation folder and found that I can setup shortcuts and have each shortcut run with different parameters. So I could have a shortcut that would get JkDefrag to analyse all drives and then have three more shortcuts to each individually on their own defrag one drive. :)
 
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