Ccleaner, Glary Utilities, Advanced SystemCare etc

[Progenix Oj101]

Out of everyone I know, my Windows installation is the oldest. I goes back to about a week after the release of Windows 7, and has been through several hundred hardware changes - everything from a Phenom 2 X4 955 to Core i7-2600K to dual Xeons, everything from a single mechanical drive to two mechanical drives in a short stroked RAID 0 array to a RAID 0 SSD array to a single SSD, everything from a Radeon 4670 to two GeForce GTX Titans in SLI. My installation hasn't given me issues, while most people start wanting to reload within a year or two. What's the difference? I've never run a registry cleaner, cleanup utility, speedup utility or anything of its ilk.

 

[Thor]

Out of everyone I know, my Windows installation is the oldest. I goes back to about a week after the release of Windows 7, and has been through several hundred hardware changes - everything from a Phenom 2 X4 955 to Core i7-2600K to dual Xeons, everything from a single mechanical drive to two mechanical drives in a short stroked RAID 0 array to a RAID 0 SSD array to a single SSD, everything from a Radeon 4670 to two GeForce GTX Titans in SLI. My installation hasn't given me issues, while most people start wanting to reload within a year or two. What's the difference? I've never run a registry cleaner, cleanup utility, speedup utility or anything of its ilk.

Omg dude you live the dream or you literally use your system only for mail and text documents, I have to format every 13 months or so otherwise... Slooowwwww

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Omg dude you live the dream or you literally use your system only for mail and text documents, I have to format every 13 months or so otherwise... Slooowwwww

If I showed you my list of almost 600 installed applications and games... Web, email, documents, gaming, photo editing, video editing, 3D modeling... I certainly don't have the rig in my sig for email only

 

[Thor]

If I showed you my list of almost 600 installed applications and games... Web, email, documents, gaming, photo editing, video editing, 3D modeling... I certainly don't have the rig in my sig for email only

You lucky human!!

 

[Bryn]

I hear you, no disrespect etc but do you prefer TuneUp just because of preference since you have used it for years

Or does TuneUp have better features and settings than the pro version of Glary Utilities?

I'm asking because I obviously have Glary Utilities Pro and I'm just curious what would make one better than the other of in fact all of the things can be done manualy etc

If you already own a maintenance program then I doubt there's any point getting another. I'm talking about TuneUp Utilities, but I think AVG TuneUp is the same product. If you already have Glary but are asking about other products, does that mean you're not happy with its performance?

Out of everyone I know, my Windows installation is the oldest. I goes back to about a week after the release of Windows 7, and has been through several hundred hardware changes - everything from a Phenom 2 X4 955 to Core i7-2600K to dual Xeons, everything from a single mechanical drive to two mechanical drives in a short stroked RAID 0 array to a RAID 0 SSD array to a single SSD, everything from a Radeon 4670 to two GeForce GTX Titans in SLI. My installation hasn't given me issues, while most people start wanting to reload within a year or two. What's the difference? I've never run a registry cleaner, cleanup utility, speedup utility or anything of its ilk.

And I bet if you ran TuneUp Utilities or something similar on your system it would find tens of thousands of things to fix. It would likely free up plenty of space, find a stack of security vulnerabilities in your settings and improve performance noticeably. And like everyone I know who has bought TuneUp Utilities based on my recommendation, you'll be a loyal customer from that day forward.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

You lucky human!!

must be related to bill gates;
or sit on the board of microsoft.......

 

[Progenix Oj101]

And I bet if you ran TuneUp Utilities or something similar on your system it would find tens of thousands of things to fix. It would likely free up plenty of space, find a stack of security vulnerabilities in your settings and improve performance noticeably. And like everyone I know who has bought TuneUp Utilities based on my recommendation, you'll be a loyal customer from that day forward.

Followed by the need to reinstall Windows a few months down the line. My PC behaves perfectly, why would I want to run a utility that will "fix" "problems" I'm not having?

After POSTing (which does take a bloody age on my board, upwards of 40 seconds) it's another 9 seconds till I'm at the desktop and another 15-20 till Origin, Steam, World Community Grid, the Sound Blaster control panel, Skype and MSI AfterBurner are up and running. I never have application crashes, blue screens, slow downs, etc. I restart my PC when Eskom forces me to, my current uptime is sitting at a few weeks but my norm is a little under 90 days. Hell I've gone so far as hotswapping PCI Express cards to avoid the inconvenience of closing what I'm working on.

Tell me, why the hell would I want to mess up my setup by running a cleanup utility? NOT running those utilities is the only thing I know of separating me from the people who need to reload every year or two.

 

[Bryn]

Followed by the need to reinstall Windows a few months down the line. My PC behaves perfectly, why would I want to run a utility that will fix problems I'm not having?

And how do you know your PC is performing as well as it can?

 

[Progenix Oj101]

And how do you know your PC is performing as well as it can?

Cinebench score is where it should be, startup time is where it should be, game performance is where it should be, what kind of answer would you like?

 

[Progenix Oj101]

According to systeminfo | find /i "install date" my installation date was 19 August 2009, so I guess I installed more like six weeks than one week after release

Wow - a day short of a month short of six years

 

[Hamish McPanji]

These programs all do what you could've done yourself.

These people all have an OCD where if they don't click something like "Clean my PC" then they won't be able to sleep at night...
You can even write a damn program to do this for you to better learn the internals of an OS.

Most people don't have time for that. How long would it take for you to do this manually ?

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Most people don't have time for that. How long would it take for you to do this manually ?

Zero seconds cause I don't

 

[CamiKaze]

Zero seconds cause I don't

This. I really don't need to bother cleaning the machine.

I don't know about you guys but I keep my system as clean as possible. That means that I don't install crap that I can do manually and secondly, the windows tools is pretty nifty in my opinion.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Hello,

At first I never believed in any of these programs, but lately the more and more people I talk to preach by it and I'm not sure what the experts would say?

Especially Glary Utilities

Does these programs really work? I have run all of them and I can't see any difference with or without them.

Ignore the naysaying bitches. Ccleaner and Glary are both good.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Zero seconds cause I don't

Was responding to Camikaze who apparently clears his browser cache, deletes memory dump files and unwanted files manually

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Ignore the naysaying bitches. Ccleaner and Glary are both good.

This naysaying bitch would like to know how often you have to reload Windows?

 

[rsifan]

Also haven't found the need to use those utilities. No issues in regard to performance since I installed Windows 7 back in 2010, and have since upgraded to Win 8.1, still no issues. PC performs as it should for the specs.

The laptop that my wife uses on the other hand, that has needed 2 reinstalls in 12 months due to the stupid malware she inevitably installs when searching for stuff online.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

This naysaying bitch would like to know how often you have to reload Windows?

On my Thinkpad, haven't reloaded in 2 years . Switching to Macbook pro and boot camp shortly, so will start afresh.

As part of my job, I have to load all sorts of crap on my PC , and it hasn't fallen down yet and is running nearly as sweetly as it did on initial install.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

On my Thinkpad, haven't reloaded in 2 years . Switching to Macbook pro and boot camp shortly, so will start afresh.

As part of my job, I have to load all sorts of crap on my PC , and it hasn't fallen down yet and is running nearly as sweetly as it did on initial install.

Two years vs six

#justsaying

That's the first hashtag I've used in my life

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Two years vs six

#justsaying

That's the first hashtag I've used in my life

I had the Thinkpad for 2 years. Time to move on....I prefer not to use decade old technologies

#naysayingbitchslap