Poppa Bear
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For all you freeware geeks. I have found these totally free programs to be very safe and extremely effective. Have used them on XP Home, Pro & Vista Ultimate. They both come highly rated in PC magazine reviews.
1. Glary Utilities for registry & general cleaning..
2. DriverMax for updating existing drivers.
It's similar to Everest but limited to drivers only, not operating system info.
Hope this may prove useful. :grinthumb
1. Glary Utilities for registry & general cleaning..
- Auto creates a back-up to any deleted registry items.
- Very user friendly.
- Allows you to preview items before deleting.
- Includes a heap of other ancillary functions.
- The only item I found I needed to untick when cleaning is: "Shortcuts fixer". It removed a few I didn't want removed.
- Download site link: http://www.glaryutilities.com/
2. DriverMax for updating existing drivers.
It's similar to Everest but limited to drivers only, not operating system info.
- Scans your whole operating system, and lists available driver updates for everything.
- Downloaded drivers can be run, saved, imported or exported. Very useful save if ever doing a reload of OS.
- Includes a user review on every driver.
- A bit tricky to use at first but provides good help menu options.
- Download site link: http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/
Hope this may prove useful. :grinthumb