Best/Most Used Utilities?

[xmyxgiantx]

Just curious, what are some of your guys favorites utilities, wether they be something like TweakUI, a virus/trojan scanner, popup stopper, any type of utility?

I used TweakUI, RegCleaner, Popup Stopper, and Im looking for the best virus scanner..

 

[igiveup]

I think you will get a lot of different opinions on the virus scanner one. I guess its just personal preference, but I have never been burned by Norton AV. Then again, I use norton av corporate and it updates itself and every computer in the office. The consumer version is great too.

For defrag: Diskeeper Lite. It annoys with some popups every once in a while. Get around that by setting the service to manual.

 

[Bovinicus]

I use Norton Utilities for the disk defragmenter and registry cleaner. I like to use Ad-Aware to keep my system free of adware and spyware. I like TMPGEnc for encoding MPEG/MPEG2s. Motherboard Monitor is good for monitoring temparatures and voltages. Passmark's Burn In Test is excellent for testing the stability of a system under full load from every device, 3DMark couples with it nicely. The Artifact Tester that comes with Omega drivers is a nice utility for video overclocing. Radclocker is a lovely little program that adds a driver tab for video overclocking.

There are many great utilities out there. This will be a nice thread will a large listing of useful utilities. Good choice.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: xmyxgiantx
Just curious, what are some of your guys favorites utilities, wether they be something like TweakUI, a virus/trojan scanner, popup stopper, any type of utility?

I used TweakUI, RegCleaner, Popup Stopper, and Im looking for the best virus scanner..

I see that this is your 9th post at Anandtech Forums. That explains why you are evidently not aware of this thread. It's titled:

==== Post COOL and USEFUL programs here!!! STICKIED ====

It's in the SOFTWARE - APPLICATIONS, PROGRAMMING AND GAMES forum.

It's not stickied anymore (pinned to the top of the forum list of threads), but it has currently 431 posts, more info on this than you could have hoped for! :Q

 

[Tiger]

In the Windows box I've got this installed.
Norton A/V 2003
Diskeeper 7.0 SE
Ad Aware 5.83
Popup Killer
Startup Cop
Norton Ghost 2002

 

[xmyxgiantx]

thanks man