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Originally Posted by smoothvibes

vista can not work good on 512 or 1Gb RAM
512 is the minimum requirement to run OS but for smooth functioning you need atleast 2GB coz infact on 1Gb you may face slowness and latency

Originally Posted by jee.ramesh1983

What is this defragmentation...Please tell me something abt this....
Which is the best software for this...

Originally Posted by jee.ramesh1983

If we can defragment through the above ways,then why do we require an external software to defragment...

Originally Posted by itsmemad

I take following steps to maintain my personal computer-

1. Use an anti-virus with its firewall feature turned off. In my opinion Kaspersky is best. Right now I'm using EScan cuz of three reasons. (a) Its using Kaspersky as its Engine. (b) It has not let me down yet. (c) Its Indian.
I advise to stick with your own anti-virus unless it doesn't perform well.

2. Though anti-virus suites provide anti-spyware, I still use 1 anti-spyware along with it. I use Spybot Search & Destroy with its tea-timer feature on to serve this purpose.

3. Windows firewall is sufficient for me(home use). Besides Router's firewall is on too.

4. For general browsing history, temp folder etc. cleaning purpose I use CCLEANER.

5. For maintaining registry, I use UNIBLUE REGISTRY BOOSTER(something clicked Eddy? lol..) and yes this defrags registry too. Registry cleaning is important to delete the traces of ur uninstalled program. Tip- Always take a back-up of your registry before cleaning it.(full version torrent available)

6. Most important software which helps to run my computer faster is Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier. It is the best defragmenting tool I've used. It uses the funda of set it and forget it. It runs automatically in the background when my computer is ideal(in between 2-8 generally), therefore it does not use resources when I'm playing or surfing. There is an option to manually defragment too. But I never need to use it. I downloaded cracked version from torrent sites. There are quite other features also. But I never bother about them. Just turn everything to automatic, except auto-update. (As its cracked version)

7. I use a s/w burstcopy(again torrent) for Windows. It optimizes the cut, copy and paste procedure by using maximum resources which normal Windows procedure can't do. Besides, it has a skip file feature which comes in handy, if u r copying from a cd/dvd and due to some reasons the file can't be copied, then u can just skip that file and burstcopy will just resume copying other files. Without it windows just terminate the copy process.

8. Windows search speed is another pain in a**. I use a s/w called AVA Find (Full version) to search my files or folders. Its like khul-ja-simsim. I type the name of file/folder in its search-box, and the file/folder just pops up in its explorer window in fraction of seconds. And it doesn't really bogs down my system. Its using just 6 MB of memory right now.

9. My windows update is set to Notify me but don't download automatically and install them. This way I save my limited(2.5GB/month) day bandwidth. And I only install security, reliability and critical updates concerned to windows only. Other crap related to Office, Internet explorer(I use FireFox), Outlook, Visual Studio etc. are conveniently ignored.

10. Windows defender is there to plug the security loopholes which only Microsoft knows..lol.. It really helped me once to remove a type of vundu trojan cleanly from my system when all other security softwares just detected the trojan but failed to remove.

11. I keep the system restore feature on. Besides automatic restore points I make it sure to have a couple of manual restore points. Just in case...

12. I use WinPatrol s/w to decrease the boot time and keep a tab on my startup items. It enables the feature of delayed start. i.e., When I boot my PC, all the startup items don't start popping up at once... cuz all of them have been assigned different time intervals after windows login.

13. I keep my security softwares updated.

Note- I use specialized softwares only. I mean not to trust a single software to do all the work it promises. For example, Anti-virus suites with aniti-spywares r just not enough. One should use atleast 1 good anti-spyware too.

P.S.- I have shared almost all the softwares I use (tried n tested... except EScan) and steps I take to maintain smooth running of my system. I deliberately avoided comparisons between other alternate softwares which I used but ignored and the ones I'm currently using, just to avoid any confusion. You are free to use the softwares you trust. Comments and queries are welcome. If you liked my post, please give me some repo points.

Originally Posted by inba

Great tips, Damn impressive.

Originally Posted by Rameshjeee

Thank you....
Which is the best method: to use the windows tool or to use any software...
Diskeeper 2008 not seems to be a freeware....
Is there any good free tool for this...

Originally Posted by jack_eng

this is my first post... just wanted 2 say hi