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[Juanca]

Great, all this info. All this makes me wonder what are your best system tools combination?

Until today i was only working with

Easy cleaner 2.0
and windows defragment tool
(but i will change to the ones suggested)

anything else?
what is your best system tools combination, and how frequently do you run this programs?

[The Fifth Horseman]

you don't need any 'registry defrag' if you have a good defragmenting tool

Defragmenting the HDD contents doesn't have much to do with defragmenting the contents of registry hives.
First use CCleaner, then RegCompact.NET.

A clean and defragmented system registry gives a slight increase of Windows startup speed.

[_r.u.s.s.]

Defragmenting the HDD contents doesn't have much to do with defragmenting the contents of registry hives.

no it does,

registry "hives" are not on spread on different sections of special physical drives or something (not every os needs to have windows registries you know...), they are, for example system32\config\sam, system32\config\system, Documents and Settings\NetworkService\ntuser.dat, etc

therefore using separate registry defragmenter and file defragmenter would be useless, if you use proper defragmenting tools, for example like ultimate defrage, which puts the most used and recent files and/or system files (it has shitloads of options, you can organise your HDD as you just wish) in to the outer tracks for faster system performance, and defragments them of course..

[Japo]

Originally Posted by Juanca

Great, all this info. All this makes me wonder what are your best system tools combination?

Until today i was only working with

Easy cleaner 2.0
and windows defragment tool
(but i will change to the ones suggested)

anything else?
what is your best system tools combination, and how frequently do you run this programs?

I used EasyCleaner, but now use CCleaner instead. It's more thorough while being completely safe, and also cleans junk files. RegSeeker also comes highly recommended and is more aggressive.

[bobson]

Does any of these programs to defrag disk and system works well on Vista? I noticed that probably every operation made on system disk needs administrator acknowlegment (I copy, delete via Total Commander) and a question "Are You Sure" from the system

[dosraider]

I know Auslogics works fine, I use it on my Vista HDs (32 and 64).
I think most of the others mentioned will also work fine in Vista.