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[...] Web Worker Daily has some resources for giving your computer a tune-up. [...]

By: Bill Kruse

Bill Kruse — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:15:06 +0000

Before you run something that’s going to tinker with your registry, install and run in auto mode the program ERUNT for a few days. It’ll make backups of your registry and you should be able to have someone techie restore your machine using Barts if it won’t boot or whatever after you’ve been fooling around with registry cleaners. Really, though, anything past 98 and you shouldn’t be using a registry cleaner at all. I found out the hard way!

By: Registry Cleaner

Registry Cleaner — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:51:20 +0000

Thats a very good looking piece of software. Thanks

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Software Dev Tools « QuantuMatrix’s Weblog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:59:30 +0000

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By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive 5 On-the-Fly Efficiency Tips When Using Windows & Apps «

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:00:20 +0000

[...] to regularly clean out your Windows Registry, which improves boot time and more. I like to use Glary Utilities to do this quickly, and it lets you make a backup of your registry in case you eject anything you [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Free Memory Optimization: Set It and Forget It «

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:37 +0000

[...] Registry. Glary Utilities also has a good module for doing that in one step, which I wrote about here. One note: If you do a registry cleaning take Glary Utilities up on creating a backup of your [...]

By: Joanna Hodges

Joanna Hodges — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:05:15 +0000

Great post – finally help for the infinite hand-me-down PC issues my family puts me through. Happy to help out, but what a pain in butt cleaning my old computers up, removing stuff, etc! To keep them from coming back to me every time the have a problem, I dumped this great tool on each (let’s them clean up their own problems!). Anyone else using TuneUp Utilities? There’s a 2008 version out now that I haven’t tried: http://www.tune-up.com

By: Windows PC fixes « Two cultures, one mind.

Windows PC fixes « Two cultures, one mind. — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:01:50 +0000

[...] better than in situ. As well as the obvious removal of ‘bloatware’, I’ve used this article as a good starter. In particular, Glary Utilities fixed over seven hundred registry errors on [...]

By: Zia

Zia — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:36:20 +0000

Fantastic post. many thanks for these suggestions!

http://zia.blogspot.com/search/label/security

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Optimize Your OS–the Free and Easy Way «

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:35 +0000

[...] system, improve performance, and boost security. For regular maintenance of Windows, I use Glary Utilities. It has a good automated registry cleaner, a fast and efficient disk cleanup utility (Windows is [...]

By: Hayabusa

Hayabusa — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:45:31 +0000

To the poster a few posts above: use an automatic defragger if you dont find time to schedule a defrag. Automatic defragmenters run in the background and automatically defrag (if necessary) whenever the system is idle without you having to do anything. They are also very light on resources, so you wont notice them running in the background.

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Free security guard to your PC « It’s Alright!! — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:03:14 +0000

[...] Webworkerdaily.com has set of interesting security suites which are free. I have to try them. Its titled as “A Complete Tune-Up for your ailing Computer-Free“. [...]

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:52:27 +0000

Got the Glary Utilities and love it. Thank you.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:19:10 +0000

Interesting suggestions, however, always accompany any cleanup software suggestions with “USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!” I am a “non-techie”, so cleaning up a computer becomes a trial + error exercise. Clary Utilities + Registry Mechanic went too far on my computer, removing too many things, resulting in having my computer techie re-install Win98SE. I use the following to clean my computer (Avast AntiVirus, Sygate Personal Firewall, CCleaner (main cleanup tool, in default setting), AdAware, Spyware Blaster, MRU Blaster, Hijack This, RegSeeker, Diskeeper Lite (excellent free Defrag software. After running these on a P3 600, 256 megs computer on a regular basis, my machine runs at peak efficience, just my experience of course.

By: PC

PC — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:26:35 +0000

Maybe my computer is just trying to tell me something, but I downloaded and ran Glary Utilities after reading this post. And it had a nearly complete meltdown. It would begin to load Windows, put my desktop background on the screen and then do nothing else. Had to start it in Safe mode and then use Windows’ system restore. Now I have my computer back but at about half the speed as before and have noticed some quirky things happening. I’m guessing some of the registry entries that Glary found and deleted were things that I actually needed. Learned my lesson there. Maybe I’ll get a new computer out of all of this …

For a larger lesson for Web workers, this underscored the importance of being able to provide your own tech support. My office is 400 miles away – so our IT department can’t do a thing for me. In fact, I’m fairly certain they don’t know I exist.

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links for 2007-11-19 | ChillyCool Web Digger — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:24:39 +0000

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