Best way to keep vista clean and healthy

Deleted member 67555 · Mar 15, 2009

Oh and if you are using a tuner card try using a second hard drive not in raid etc... for your tv stuff
I tried using the same hard drive for my operating sytem and my tv stuff and oh boy that made for a big mess (tweaking pc) had to defrag like twice a week-however that was before sp1 and i know alot of sp1 was geared towards media center

DaveK · Mar 15, 2009

I swear by CCleaner, I use it like 5 times a day lol. I use Piriform Defraggler, made by the same people who make CCleaner. It seems to do the job, most files are defragmented. But last night before shutdown I defragged my OS drive, it had 2 files with 6 fragments and was good, but now on boot it's back to it was, so I might need to try a new program, but CCleaner rocks.

I also might use vLite on my next install, I can get like 1.4GB out of it just by removing some useless language pack or something, I haven't look through it properly but I've heard good things.

Thanks for these tips, Vista is running fine speed wise for me, but I wouldn't mind speeding it up and shaving off a few GB

Mussels · Mar 15, 2009

oh man i forgot!

everyone running vista SP1 (streamline install or not) has uninstall data to revert to SP0.

Run this command in a run prompt to remove them!

vsp1cln.exe

I've seen it save 6GB on an x64 system that had all the windows updates prior to updating to SP1.

DrPepper · Mar 15, 2009

Sorry I haven't updated this thread yet I'm still fighting with my rig to try fix it

DaveK · Mar 15, 2009

Mussels said:
oh man i forgot!

everyone running vista SP1 (streamline install or not) has uninstall data to revert to SP0.

Run this command in a run prompt to remove them!

vsp1cln.exe

I've seen it save 6GB on an x64 system that had all the windows updates prior to updating to SP1.

Yeah, I forgot about that too, saved me like 1.5GB, good bit of space for something most of us won't really need.

FilipM · Mar 15, 2009

I use Kasperky Internet Security 2009 with CCleaner, Defragller and Spybot - Search and Destroy (great thing that is).

Also for scanning Doctor Web is good, also Tune Up Utilities 2009 (but KIS and Tune Up arent free)

Marineborn · Mar 15, 2009

thanks guys just picked up cclearner and it found over 3 gigs of stuff to get rid of! LOL!!! thats hilorous and a whole crap load of registry errors, and i picked up there defraagler too, i had over 3000 degragmented files, running it now, thanks again for this post

silkstone · Mar 15, 2009

Will all the program support vista x64?
I would reccommend paragon HD manager x64 as a drive/partition image tool.
I have yet to find a different defrag utility that will work with vista x64

FilipM · Mar 15, 2009

I do believe defragller works with a 64bit operating system

DrPepper · Mar 15, 2009

defraggler and ccleaner run on almost all windows with a gui x32 and x64 and is one of the most powerful cleaning tools I use. Defraggler is also very good and is very portible.

psyko12 · Mar 16, 2009

silkstone said:
Will all the program support vista x64?
I would reccommend paragon HD manager x64 as a drive/partition image tool.
I have yet to find a different defrag utility that will work with vista x64

Try ultimate defrag, altho it ain't free.

Also Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 works on x64 platforms too. :toast:

DrPepper · Mar 16, 2009

I'm going to add recuva by piriform.

farlex85 · Mar 16, 2009

psyko12 said:
Try ultimate defrag, altho it ain't free.

Sure it is: http://download.cnet.com/UltimateDefrag-Freeware-Edition/3000-2094_4-10582157.html Not too great though I thought, the formula wasn't as fast as jkdefrag and has more tendency to fragment the drive when optimizing. JK is much better imo.

DrPepper · Mar 16, 2009

Added links to the first post.

Wile E · Mar 16, 2009

silkstone said:
Will all the program support vista x64?
I would reccommend paragon HD manager x64 as a drive/partition image tool.
I have yet to find a different defrag utility that will work with vista x64

O&O Defrag supports x64 as well.

DrPepper · Mar 16, 2009

O&O is very good so far. Using it and its defragmenting two at the same time I think.

Wile E · Mar 16, 2009

DrPepper said:
O&O is very good so far. Using it and its defragmenting two at the same time I think.

Go into the options, and tell it to defrag sequentially, and it will do one drive at a time.

DrPepper · Mar 16, 2009

Wile E said:
Go into the options, and tell it to defrag sequentially, and it will do one drive at a time.

I saw that but I like how it does more than one at a time

silkstone · Mar 16, 2009

Wile E said:
O&O Defrag supports x64 as well.

i have o&o on my HD, when i try to install it it tells me i have the wrong OS. Maybe there are different versions.

Mussels · Mar 16, 2009

silkstone said:
i have o&o on my HD, when i try to install it it tells me i have the wrong OS. Maybe there are different versions.

theres a seperate installer for x64. Quite often people who say X program doesnt work in windows x64, forget to look for a different installer.

Wile E · Mar 16, 2009

silkstone said:
i have o&o on my HD, when i try to install it it tells me i have the wrong OS. Maybe there are different versions.

You have to grab the x64 specific installer.

silkstone · Mar 16, 2009

I'll have to have a search around and try to find it. thx

Ptep · Mar 16, 2009

I use CCleaner and DeFraggler, Malware Bytes/SuperAntiSpyware, and Spybot (for the hosts protection!). No realtime AV though, gets in the way too much

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