Freeware and Vista

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ETSA

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I am looking for a registry cleaner and memory cleaner/defragmenter that is compatible with no or little bugs for VISTA. I have been having issues with Abexo and what not. I would appreciate it from those who have vista and use it, because I have tried numerous ones and got tired of downloading software I am unfamiliar with.

Thank you.
 
The one and only RegCleaner is even seen on the Vista compatibility lists at http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List That's one old freeware good for "all" versions of Windows since it works on Vista here as well as on XP and formerly 98 on the old build even as far back as 3.1! You download this one at any time from http://www.majorgeeks.com/RegCleaner_d460.html

You are still going to find that the new version of Windows has many "bugs" that need to worked out as expected. The SP1 and SP2 addons are apparently the typical MS norm these days. Just like all first releases of ever other version there are bugs and a serious lack of drivers available along with update patches for softwares. The compatibilty lists show PowerDVD 6 and 7 alike compatible for Vista?

NADA! I had to download the 30day trial of the newer Vista ready version to see that program run. Another freeware for cleaning up useless files off of a drive is CCleaner found at http://www.ccleaner.com/ Reducing your startup items with the msconfig utility is still another available option.
 
Thank you, I forgot to mention I was looking for a firewall and AV that works well and how good is the vista provided AV and spyware detection/deletion?
 
In Vista you won't be looking for another firewall. The new user account control will make you sick and tired of answering prompts on literally "eeevvvveeerrrryyyttthhhiiinnnggg" even to start a game you have already installed. Anything gets a prompt for allow, deny, end program". Remember the "Windows Defender"? The full version of that comes included. And there is no way to stop the automatic volume checker when you see "Drive C volume clean, Drive D volume clean" when you boot up.

AVG still runs good. Ad-Adware will be beta testing a new 2007 edition I will be looking into shortly. Spyware Terminator kind of finds a few more data collectors at times however. Vista by default does have some type of boot sector AV inplace along with the disk checker mentioned before. Just how good it is? will depend on when I can let a good one go here to see what it does. So far I'm stuck with three clean installations of Windows here.
 
You'll a good number of freewares will go right on wihtout really having too much trouble. What will get you the most is the usual desktop applications and utilties for 98 up. Older games didn't see much of a problem however. So far I haven't tried Sygate or Comodo or even a newer free version of Zone Alarm to see how any of those make out.

Spyware Terminator is another freeware including a personal firewall you can grab from http://www.spywareterminator.com/ Someone pointed out the PC World magazine review seen on that some time back. So far so good but...
 
Still looking for a good firewall...

Just a firewall, I already use avast and etrust and adawareSE
 
I could have mentioned Commodo but already assumed there won't be a Vista capable version out quite yet. Since it's only been about six weeks now since Vista came out you have to plan on it taking some time before a number of any type of freeware start appearing. Some of the freewares currently geared for XP will still run on Vista. But it's still trial and error to test each one you come across.
 
These kind of questions seem to be popping up quite a bit, about freeware and vista compatibility.
 
With any new version of "anything" you can expect that. One tip for finding out what "does" and what "doesn't" is to create a main folder with several smaller ones for sorting things out. :confused: :eek: "that's where they are!" There you can divide different downloads and other files into different catagories like system updates for video, sound, board, and addon devices in sud folders there. Even your game saves and screen shots can be backed up. The utilities and other freewares downloaded have their own folder as well. That can be seen in the image here. http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=storingfilessq0.jpg
 
goosy22 said:
a very good registry cleaner compatible with Vista is Crap Cleaner (www.ccleaner.com), i used it when i ran Vista for a while... it worked very well for me...
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If you look back in the thread that along with RegCleaner which works on all versions of Windows from 95 up is a great freeware recommended. CCleaner is more focused on IE browser history and other offline content as well as temporary folders used by spftware installers. For cleaning the registry the RegCleaner has topped every other one tried so far.
 
PC eye said:
If you look back in the thread that along with RegCleaner which works on all versions of Windows from 95 up is a great freeware recommended. CCleaner is more focused on IE browser history and other offline content as well as temporary folders used by spftware installers. For cleaning the registry the RegCleaner has topped every other one tried so far.
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and if you've ever used CCleaner, you would know that it has a registry cleaner embedded within it... ;)
 
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goosy22 said:
and if you've ever used CCleaner, you would know that it has a registry cleaner embedded within it... ;)
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For cleaning the registry there's one thing you can't do with CCleaner like you can with RegCleaner. manually select which key you want removed. That saves time using regedit to go into the "hives" and "branches" in order to remove the entries for a program you are trying to remove manually. Ah haa! :D Both have an automatic cleaning tools while RegCleaner only installs a desktop shortcut without creating any of it's own values. That's another plus!
 
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