Nicolaj.v Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Hi, I'm not 100% sure if it's supposed to be in this topic but i didn't find anything better(Resently I've found a lot of system optimization products over the internet and a I need a opinion or a review which one to choose as they seem worthy.Can someone advice me of a best affordable system optimizer to buy or may be a website with some review or relevant information, that would really be appreciated.Thank you, Nicolaj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Don't waste your money on these type of apps, use a free one like CCleaner. Don't use any registry optimizers though as they tend to break things making the system less stable and do nothing for performance.CCleaner is the only program worth running once in a while to reclaim hard disk space from temporary files and such. You can use the defrag program built into windows once in a while if you have a hard drive with little free space and use it heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Agreed - assuming your disk is defragmented regularly (and Win7 already does this for you on a schedule) and you keep your temp internet files clear of junk via apps like CCleaner, you should be fine. This used to be a real problem back in the 9x days, but even since W2K you can pretty much keep a "clean" machine for years if you are careful what you install and uninstall, keep your TIF clean, and defrag regularly. This mantra worked then, it worked on XP, it worked on Vista, and it works with Win7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Additionally you can read this that confirms what's already been posted. Same was done for Vista with same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan_s Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 (edited) Such software usually is not as necessary as advertises say, in most cases everything can be done manually with a little time and dedication.But still, if you are looking for some info or reviews - just google it up, you'll get the basic idea, you'll find plenty of sites like this optimzier review Edited December 3, 2009 by nathan_s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 all "tweaking" tools are useless since Vista. Vista/7 self optimize itself (background defrag, ReadyBoot, Superfetch) so that it will be fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticBloom Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Here are two keys that speed up Win7.Autotuning will be enabled by these two , Autotuning=off by default.This gave me a jump in performance.Here's the registry tip:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]"TCPAutoTuning"=dword:00000001Add this key too for a 64bit Win7[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]"TCPAutoTuning"=dword:00000001I found a huge increase in performance on my system and i can recommend this tweak to everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Network speed or system speed? How did you test to come to your conclusion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 I am almost certain that feature is enabled by default since Vista, and is not available on XP and earlier.Also I recommend using netsh or gpedit instead of the registry where possible since they are "supported". For example:netsh int tcp show globalnetsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normalautotuninglevel - One of the following values:disabled: Fix the receive window at its default value.highlyrestricted: Allow the receive window to grow beyond its default value, but do so very conservatively.restricted: Allow the receive window to grow beyond its default value, but limit such growth in some scenarios.normal: Allow the receive window to grow to accomodate almost all scenarios.experimental: Allow the receive window to grow to accomodate extreme scenarios.We actually have a topic on this setting back from 2006 http://www.msfn.org/board/heres-why-tcpwin...sta-t87969.htmlThis setting is actually determined by Windows Scaling Heuristics since Vista SP2 and is best left alone.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...036(WS.10).aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 I am almost certain that feature is enabled by default since Vista, and is not available on XP and earlierIt is, for both (and there is no such thing in XP indeed). So there's exactly zero change.We've all seen such "I found a huge increase in performance on my system" claims hundreds of times before as well, like the super-duper "enable superfetch in XP" tweaks and the like (nevermind the code that would use that key doesn't exist in XP). There's always a LOT of folks who'd swear it made a gigantic, day-and-night difference when there is none whatsoever.And here, even if it was disabled by default (which it's not), it wouldn't help "global" system performance anyways, just network speed, and only under certain conditions (depending on link speed and latency mainly). There are even folks who had network performance problems caused by this and got a speed boost by disabling it.And like pretty much everyone said already, optimizers are useless junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherryle Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Hi, I know there're much info about that in cnet download site, just go and find what you need. good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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