New System and I want to avoid Norton System Works

[louise]

I used to use Norton AV and Norton SystemWorks but I know
that System Works has become less and less respected in
recent years and I'm considering not putting it on my new
machine.

I do want three things and am willing to get separate
programs if that would create the best quality function:

Unerase
Good Defragger
Registry Cleaner

What programs would people recommend for these three
functions?

TIA

Louise

 

[Frank Hagan]

I used to use Norton AV and Norton SystemWorks but I know
that System Works has become less and less respected in
recent years and I'm considering not putting it on my new
machine.

I do want three things and am willing to get separate
programs if that would create the best quality function:

Unerase
Good Defragger
Registry Cleaner

What programs would people recommend for these three
functions?

TIA

Louise

RegSupreme http://www.macecraft.com/ Works well, easy to use. Or was
that tastes great, less filling? ;-)

FRH

 

[Big Daddy]

I used to use Norton AV and Norton SystemWorks but I know
that System Works has become less and less respected in
recent years and I'm considering not putting it on my new
machine.

I do want three things and am willing to get separate
programs if that would create the best quality function:

Unerase
Good Defragger
Registry Cleaner

What programs would people recommend for these three
functions?

For a defragger, I highly recommend Executive Software's Diskeeper. You
can actually watch the thing defrag in realtime! It's unbelievably fast!
Norton's Speed Disk never did the trick for me. It was terribly slow,
with overnight defrags, and after you defragged, you can run it again
and it defrags quite a bit more. If it was finished defragging, why does
it find more to defrag?

Diskeeper Professional can be set to defrag in the background, though
it's priority is riteously low and is limited in its effectiveness. It
still cuts down on the amount of defragging it has to do when you do
one, though. Also, it can keep track of your disk use so that it can
arrange files best for performance. You should do a complete defrag at
boot-time now and then to defrag the master file table and rearrange all
of your files for better performance. This is impossible to do without
doing it at boot-time because many of the files would be in use,
normally, and unable to be moved.

Anyway, you can download a 30 day trial at www.diskeeper.com