Best freeware system tools for windows XP ? (internet security / ram optimization / defrag / registry)?

August 3, 2009

After a lot of personal research, straightforward testing, and lessons learned, I came up with the following freeware solutions for keeping my system up and running.

FIREWALL
– COMODO Firewall Pro

ANTIVIRUS
– AOL Active Virus Shield (based on Kapersky)
– a-squared free

ANTISPYWARE
– SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition
– Microsoft Windows Defender
– SpywareBlaster
– McAfee SiteAdvisor

REGISTRY CLEANER
– Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal
– CCleaner

ANTISPAM
– SpamBayes

DEFRAGMENTER
– Speedfrag (a bit akward to use at first, but simply the best one available for free)

MEMORY OPTIMIZER
– Cacheman

All those software are free to everyone for personal use, they are also easy-to-use, non-intrusive (almost no pop-ups windows) and low-memory consuming.

My laptop is now booting up in 55s with 659 Mb of free RAM available (out of 1Gb total), and is decently fast.

I consider it good, but I would like to make it even better.. Any advise?

What is the best program to help clean up your computer and make it run faster?

August 2, 2009

My computer is moving like a turtle and I keep getting low disk space warnings. So, I took off almost all my pictures, movie clips, college papers, powerpoints, etc. that I could but I still keep getting the same errors! I’ve looked at different websites to purchase a program to help me out, but I am not sure which one is the best.

FYI – I don’t think it is a virus because I use Norton, which has always been pretty reliable.

Can anyone recommend a safe registry cleaner?

August 2, 2009

I need a reliable and safe registry cleaner. I downloaded some bogus software unware they were trojans.

How Can I Restore my Default windows registry ?

August 2, 2009

i have downloaded INTERNET DOWNLOAD MANAGER the free trial version then after i have used it for a couple of times it expired then i have made a COMPLETE uninstallation
but i have noticed that the connection speed decreased significantly so how can i repair (restore) the changed registry configuration back to default ??

Two Registry Cleaners?

August 2, 2009

Is it ok to run two different registry cleaners (not at the same time of course)? I want to run CCleaner then run Regcure afterwards, is this ok?