Nov 03 2008
Posted by Carol in Freeware, Today's freeware, Vista, Windows |
nCleaner - advanced system and application cleaner
Every computer needs care, and care starts with maintenance and cleanup.
Good stuff on nCleaner: Junk finder, Reg Cleaner, Free Space Shredder, Tweak manager, Startup manager and few more.
Note: because nCleaner is an advanced system app, you shouldn’t use it unless you know what you are doing. As an alternative, use cCleaner.
DriverMax - detects, downloads and installs the latest version of your computer’s drivers.
It also backs up all drivers and lets you restore them.
SmartDefrag - Defragmentation is a very important process in keeping your hard drive’s performance at maximum and bring its files together.
SmartDefrag will diagnose and optimize your machine’s hard drive while running quietly in the background.
As a prevention, this defrag app will pause itself down if the CPU raises over 40% .
Lingoes - the little sister of Babylon is a dictionary and translation freeware.
So what’s so special about this app that makes it a “must have” tool?
With Lingoes you can:
lookup dictionaries, do full text translation, cursor translation, zoned word translation and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages.
It also contains some of the most popular and reliable thesaurus dictionaries such as: Cambridge, Longman, Collins, MacMillian…and few more.
Revo Uninstaller - this tool does more than its name says and it does it good.
The uninstaller is just an amazing tool. With few clicks it will not only uninstall your apps, but it will also do a deep registry key scan and find the dead file paths or leftovers giving you the opportunity to actually do clean removals.
The other tools included: junk file cleaner, autorun manager, windows tools, evidence remover, unrecoverable undelete….and few more.
These are the 5 essentials, all compatible with Vista and XP, and you should get them.
17 Responses
David
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
1Very good list and every one is essential.
Carol
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
2Thanks David.
I know you’ve been using those too and that you’re happy with them.
David
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
3NCleaner and Revo are amazing pieces of software and freeware as well.
Carol
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
4I should have added YousendIt as well.
jon
November 4th, 2008 at 12:03 am
5I have a problem with Drivermax — it can’t find drivers form y 64-bit Vista cmputer. For this reason I use Radarsync, which is also free and found about 4 drivers for me. It also has a few extra features that drivermax doesn’t have, so I think it’s all in all a better product.
Carol
November 4th, 2008 at 10:30 am
6Hi John,
I used Radarsync when i first installed Vista and i wasn’t very impressed with it .
Maybe in the meantime it improved, so i will give it another try and if if is working good, i will add it as an alternative.
Thanks for the comment/
Ariel
November 21st, 2008 at 1:51 am
7IM WARNING YOU:
NEVER but NEVER really NEVER USE DriveMax !!!
i had to format my pc after updating drivers with that program
Josh
November 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
8I would also recommend Ccleaner, I have this installed on every computer I run. You can clean temp files, clean the registry entries, uninstall programs, remove startup entries, it’s a really good program.
Josh
November 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
9http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Ben
November 21st, 2008 at 6:53 pm
10Who needs an advanced system and application cleaner. I assume this is intended to show how people who choose Windows must also choose lots of software to try to patch it up. I can’t install it, and I have absolutely no use for it. I can simply start up my package manager which cleans itself up automatically. Drivers are also automatically updated, and modern filesystems don’t really suffer fragmentation. Mine didn’t slow down over the last 10 months of using ext3.
Lingoes sounds okay, but I already have ’stardict’ which is great for Thai and English, and has many sources for other languages freely available.
NOT ONE is essential. They are all obsolete, like the operating system they are designed for. Registry and Installation are also relics of this rather outdated method of managing software.
Why not focus on useful applications? Elisa Media Center is amazing - try that instead!
Joel
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:35 am
11The other programs are good. DONT USE NCLEANER!!!! Unless you are a very advanced user, this program is not recommended for basic or mildly advanced users. If you are not careful, you will delete program files needed to run applications, delete system restore points, it will even delete your theme and alter it back to windows classic. It is hard to control what gets deleted and what doesn’t. Some things you cant keep it from deleting if you want the other files deleted. The recommended program that does the same basic function but WONT delete important files that is user friendly would be CCleaner. It is made by the same company and is the earlier version but oddly enough is very effective yet safe and very easy to use.
dave
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:36 am
12great page except drivermax is a dead link
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November 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
13[...] 5 freeware utilities every computer should have Share and Enjoy: [...]
Dicky
November 24th, 2008 at 4:39 am
14I am using CC Cleaner instead of nCleaner. It greatly improve my computer speed!
Carol
November 25th, 2008 at 10:37 am
15Thanks Dave, the link is fixed.
Dicky, the cCleaner is great, but it doesn’t do a deep clean like nCleaner does.
Joel, you are right about the fact that nCleaner should only be used by experienced users.
I will add that as a not.
Carol
November 25th, 2008 at 10:46 am
16@Ben - i wrote this entry for those software, not for media centers.
We may not be happy with the way Windows is, and we might have to patch it every now and then, and because that’s the way things are, we will focus on how to manage it and maintain it.
I will however install and test Elisa and give it a try.
Thanks for the comment and for the tip.
steve
November 30th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
17using driver max on vista prem. exellent highly recomended. the comment about it not working on 64 bit is not helpfull, it tells you before you start that it does not support vista 64bit.
thank you for finding this for me.
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