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Other => Reviews and recommendations => Topic started by: Wefro_froyas on April 11, 2009, 03:47:21 PM
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Hey everyone first review.
I got TuneUp Utilites 2009 after hearing about from a friends.
Well I downloaded the trial version and used it until expired and I have to say it is amazing!
http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/
For 30$ I got so much out of it.
Here's what it included
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2e0mvet.jpg)
It's a great tool for speeding up your PC.
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IMHO, any tool, which includes monkeying with the registry is dangerous.
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IMHO, any tool, which includes monkeying with the registry is dangerous.
I've never gotten someone to explain this for me.
I also stay away from Registry tools but the utilities this product contains is wonderful to have and I recommend it to anyone.
EDIT: Broni can you explain why they are dangerous?
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The answer is pretty simple. Unless you're troubleshooting some problem, there is absolutely no business to touch the registry.
No gains earned, but one wrong move, and a lot of pain is likely to happen.
Then, I can assure you, all other features are available for free, not for $30.
You can try to name one feature, and I'll show you a free tool, which will do very same thing.
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The answer is pretty simple. Unless you're troubleshooting some problem, there is absolutely no business to touch the registry.
No gains earned, but one wrong move, and a lot of pain is likely to happen.
Then, I can assure you, all other features are available for free, not for $30.
You can try to name one feature, and I'll show you a free tool, which will do very same thing.
I guess you're right
Give it a try Broni.
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I agree with Broni.
The registry is not something to be casually "tidied" or "cleaned", and you get no benefit from it. Assigning a cleaning method to arbitrary data means that at some point, your going to lose data that is needed.
Mark explains it a lot better then I do. (http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx) And, you simply cannot argue with him- you haven't any ground to stand on.
And the other tools are available for free. There are free defragmenters, we have CCleaner- and half of those tools are available free as a SysInternals Util (or, at least the startup manager, AutoRuns, which is probably far more full-featured as well).
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The answer is pretty simple. Unless you're troubleshooting some problem, there is absolutely no business to touch the registry.
No gains earned, but one wrong move, and a lot of pain is likely to happen.
Then, I can assure you, all other features are available for free, not for $30.
You can try to name one feature, and I'll show you a free tool, which will do very same thing.
There is one good thing that came from deleting things from my registry: NeverShowExt...
Search NeverShowExt and find out why you should remove it too...
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except you can do that manually- or even better, through a script.
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There is one good thing that came from deleting things from my registry: NeverShowExt...
Search NeverShowExt and find out why you should remove it too...
That's scary
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That's scary
Exactly, and there's a secondary benefit too! CMD doesn't recognize shortucts as Name.lnk until all of NeverShowExt are removed...(or until you delete the right one).
I think it's good for safety...I just realised how much damage a scrap file could do...CMD /c del "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*"
*shudder*
Attached is an example (nothing bad will happen).
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been using Tune Up Utilities for many yrs, and it does work
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Excellent, but we don't recommend it.