Recomendations for general utility for defrag, virus scanner, registry fixer

I have been using System Suite (now from VCom) for the past 5 years, but they have made some changes in V7 I don't like, but still haven't fixed issues from years ago. I'm looking for a replacement for at least these tasks;

1. Defrag program,
2. Virus scanner,
3. Registry repair,
4. Disc repair

Those are my main uses. The Virus definations/updates should be included with free updates (as with System Suite from TrendMicro), not like Norton where you have to pay a yearly sub fee. I have seen/used PC Mechanic (I believe that was the name) and that was really lame. Way too simple and ineffective especially for the defrag program.

I would perfer one program instead of one for each task. And one that isn't bloated as in Norton.
Suggestions??

I can't recommend a suite that covers all these functions. Generally these all-in-one suites are bloated, and generally don't perform any specific task particularly well.

However, I can recommend apps that I use that perform their specific tasks exceptionally well and do it without burdening your resources, here we go:
1. Defrag: O&O Defrag Professional (there are other equally good defrag apps out there, but this is the one I use)
2. Virus Scanner: NOD32, this is a no contest, this is the BEST anti-virus available.
3. Registry Repair: I still use RegCleaner, old but it gets the job done, is also freeware
4. Disk Repair: There is no competition here either, the king of disk checking and repair is SpinRite.

Hope this helps,
triga

O&O I have heard of before, but that NOD32 I haven't. Others suggested Kapersky or AVG for antivirus. That Spinrite is a little on the pricey side.
Thanks for the input, any others?

videobruce said:

I have been using System Suite (now from VCom) for the past 5 years, but they have made some changes in V7 I don't like, but still haven't fixed issues from years ago. I'm looking for a replacement for at least these tasks;

1. Defrag program,
2. Virus scanner,
3. Registry repair,
4. Disc repair

Those are my main uses. The Virus definations/updates should be included with free updates (as with System Suite from TrendMicro), not like Norton where you have to pay a yearly sub fee. I have seen/used PC Mechanic (I believe that was the name) and that was really lame. Way too simple and ineffective especially for the defrag program.

I would perfer one program instead of one for each task. And one that isn't bloated as in Norton.
Suggestions??

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The defrag that comes with Windows works just fine. Have used Disk Keeper and am not impressed, Windows defrag is just as good (IMO).

I have used Spinrite for many years, it is the best but not free.

RollingThunder said:

Have used Disk Keeper and am not impressed, Windows defrag is just as good (IMO)

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1. The only features I really like with Diskkeeper are boot-time defrag runs, scheduling, and being able to manually pad the frag-shield keeping fragmentation down noticeably on a couple of my partitions (where I had the space to do so).

I usually use O&O. It's a much more thorough program and it can defrag and rearrange all the files on the volume by name/last-accessed/etc. whereas diskkeeper and the default XP version just do a standard defrag run.

Additionally, using O&O with under 15% of drive space left isn't that much of an issue compared to the other two. It'll take longer but it'll do it.


3. Registry cleaner: I usually use RegSeeker if I need to delete something manually from the registry, but I've never tried out any cleaning functions... used the CCleaner registry checker once and fried a system so I haven't messed with them since.

one program will do all that. Its called System Mechanic 7.

1. Diskeeper lite -freeware
2. AVG -freeware
3. Regscrub XP -freeware
4. command prompt chkdsk C: /v /x /r

Why pay at all?