TuneUp Utilities 2007

TuneUp Utilities 2007 is one of the most complete system utility that cleans up your drive of junk files, remove duplicates, safely uninstall softwares, cleanup your registry and a array of handy features not found in many utility softwares available.

Their one click maintenance does a batch process of analyzing your registry for invalid references, analyzes your applications for missing files, check your registry structure and remove temporary files, all within the click of a single button.

With TuneUp Utilities you can move your application software safely to any location on your hard drives and it will update all the references in the registry and system files to its new location.

TuneUp Startup Manager allows you to disable unwanted applications and services in your startup process. An additional TuneUp Process Manager is available for your to see a list of running programs and the files that it is using. This is particular useful for identifying trojans and spywares that may be hiding behind legitimate looking names.

You can use TuneUp Utilities' Uninstall Manager to remove unwanted programs and files. It is also able to uninstall failed or unused programs that may have broken or invalid uninstall processes.

Defragment Memory ensures that your memory not in use are released. This happens when buggy or crashed program does not de-allocate the memory that it uses properly. Memory usage are re-allocated so that it is contiguous (like your hard disk's space) thereby speeding up your application speed, particularly useful on server applications or appliances which requires minimal downtime.

TuneUp Utilities 2007 also comes with TuneUp Winstyler, which is a tweak tool and consists of many downloadable themes and logon screen from TuneUp website.

Finally, it has a Securely Delete Files function which ensure your delete files, particularly sensitive data, are not retrievable using special tools and another tool to recover deleted files and programs.

System Mechanic 6 & System Mechanic 6 Pro

System Mechanic is similiar in function without the file recovery tool (unless you purchase the Professional version), but with the addition of;

1. The ability to cleanup your tracks (removing your surfing histories, your recently accessed files, eliminating sensitive information that you do not want available to prying eyes) and an additional utility, the Popup Blocker but minus the spywares that comes with those the like of Window Washer, Internet Washer Pro, History Swatter¹ (from the Fun Web Product Family) and 'commercialize spyware' like Stopzilla.

2. It comes with Spython anti-spyware program but unfortunately it fares poorly in terms of detecting and removing many of the spywares that are common at this moment. You will need specialized software like Pest Petrol to completely remove some of the common pests in the wild at this moment.

Our tests on both the above softwares did show a marked improvement on our Windows 2000 Server and a bigger available diskspace, all these without the need to 'reboot' our server, a 'feature' commonly need in Windows OS.

Useful for the technical and non-technical users alike, the above system utilities are a long term solution to manage and keep your your system in tip-top condition.

Download or buy the award-winning TuneUp Utilties 2007 here.

Buy System Mechanic 6

Buy System Mechanic 6 Professional

System Mechanic Pro comes with additional antivirus, personal firewall and Search and Recover 2, an important indispensible data recovery program that can even recover deleted emails. You may order it at the special price of just $49.95 here.

¹ Fun Web Products family include: Cursor Mania, Fun Buddy Icons, History Swatter, My Mail Notifier, My Mail Signature, My Mail Stamp, My Mail Stationery, PopSwatter, Popular Screensavers and Smiley Central which are a bunch that add alot of entries in your registry and thus not easy to remove manually. And when removed, they tend to reappear again.

You may need a comprehensive security tool / specialized anti-spyware product like Computer Associates' Pest Patrol to completely remove it.