System maintenance, that must be a good thing... Auslogics Boostspeed Comodo System Cleaner TuneUp Utilities Glary Utilities Iobit Advanced System Care ... I don't think using them all is a good thing ... Currently I have IoBit Advanced System Care ... I had it auto maintaining my computer for a few months, then I disabled it. It has been disabled the last few months now, and my computer is fine... Which indicates to me that it doesn't really do much for me... Perhaps I shoul...

I found this little oddity... eBoostr 3 ... I run vista, and thought "why would I need THAT? Readyboost is available". But man, was I wrong. I suppose ymmv, but here's my experience (just by installing adding a bunch of software to the cache, and rebooting): I plugged in a 16GB memory stick I had wasting space here... Assigned the whole drive as cache (even though they recommend only 1-2GB). When the cache was built, I manually chose firefox and a whole lot of the things I run at boot to ...

I dropped by giveaway of the day... Usually they hand out quite silly software, but today they have Glary utilities pro... I could even upgrade it to the latest version from the official Glary homepage after installation and retain all the pro features.... It's a really nice maintenance package, well worth the... free... pricetag. 13 hours remaining, and you need to install it today or it won't work. (which is the only catch, if you need to reinstall it at a later point, you will need to bu...

Purpose: To see if I can do it. And well, people let me optimize their systems, I need to find a working solution so I don't need to help them too often. Goal: A clean smoothly running computer with a minimal amount of effort. The aim is to use as few different software components as possible. How to achieve the goal: Seems reasonable to use a freely available software suite. That way I don't need to have too many pieces of software running, and reduce risk of incompa...