Searching For Optimization / Clean-Up Application

September 4, 2009

Hi,

I am an IT Consultant, and am looking to find a good optimization/clean-up

program that I can use on my client's machines. Currently, I do all the

optimization manually because it seems a lot of the optimization and clean-up

programs out there are either not great at doing their job, or aren't

transparent in what they do, or potentially cause problems either because

they are poorly designed or inundated with spyware/adware/etc.

I think the most important feature of an optimization/clean-up program for

me would be one where I maintain total control over what it is doing (i.e. it

says it wants to do A, B, C, and then I tell it to only do A and C and it

only does A and C and nothing else). Also, I'd want a reputable one that

doesn't contain any spyware/adware or anything else that could potentially

cause problems. Hopefully it would be able to run on at least WinXP and

WinVista (and maybe on Win2000 and Win7 also).

Obviously, the program would have to have the option of doing things such as

clean up temp files, defrag, list/diagnose background processes and startup

processes that might slow the computer down, and more.

I'm hoping that some of you out there might have some suggestions for me.

Any information is greatly appreciated!

Also, if anyone out there has any other good diagnostic programs (such as a

network diagnostic tool that maybe does stuff such as measuring bandwidth and

latency, etc.) I'd be very interested in hearing about them as I'm always

looking for new tools that help me diagnose and fix issues faster and more

efficiently.

Thanks!

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- marc

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