Utilities Discussion - Week 1

[profdlp]

NOTE: To understand what is going on here, you should first read the topic "SM Recommended Utilities" in the Short-Media Pub!

http://short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=701


The SM Recommended Utilities topics for this week are:

1) Defrag Programs

2) Registry Cleaner

3) MP3 Player

Please recommend up to three programs in each category using the following format:

$ - <Name Of Program> - for programs you would pay for.
F/S - <Name Of Program> - for freeware/shareware programs
XXX - <Name Of Program> - for programs you wouldn't use if they paid you.

As an example, here are my recommended programs:

Defrag:
$ Norton Speed Disc
F/S Disckeeper Lite
XXX No Choice

Registry Cleaner:
$ No Choice
F/S NBG Clean Registry
XXX No Choice

MP3 Player
$ MusicMatch Jukebox
F/S Winamp
XXX RealOne Player

Any additional comments you want to add are welcome, but please make your recommendations obvious enough so I don't miss them - I want your input to be included in what will eventually become a master list of our members favorites.


Prof:thumbsup:

(This weeks categories will remain open for one week)

[Bad_Karma]

Defragmenter:
$ Diskeeper
F/S no choice
xxx Microsoft disk defragmenter :)

Reg Cleaner:
$ no choice
F/S RegCleaner 4.3....
http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/index.php
xxx no choice

.mp3 player:
$ no choice
F/S dbpoweramp
www.dbpoweramp.com
xxx windows media player :)

[danball1976]

Defragmenter:
$ Diskeeper Home Edition
F/S WinXP Defragger (basic version of Diskeeper)
xxx O&O defragmenter - even slower than Win98 defragger

RegCleaner
$ No Choice
F/S Easycleaner v1.7f
xxx No Choice

MP3 PLayer
$ No Choice (does PowerDVD MP3 encoder count?)
F/S Windows Media Player 9 (not 8 or any previous versions)
xxx Real Player (all versions)

[TheBaron]

Defrag
$ Norton Systemworks (i like it all)
F/S No Choice
XXX No Choice

what i REALLY need is a scandisk program that actually WORKS with xp pro.

MP3
$ Musicmatch
F/S Winamp or WMP 9
XXX Anything by Real, IE Integrated Media

Regcleaner
$ Norton Systemworks
F/S Supercleaner, Ad-Aware, ME
xxx no choice

[Spinner]

Defrag
$ Norton Speed Disk
F/S Win XP Defragger
XXX No Choice

Regcleaner
$ Norton WinDoctor
F/S Regcleaner 4.3
xxx no choice

MP3
$ Real Jukebox Plus 2
F/S WMP 9
XXX Real One

[MERRICK]

Defragmenter:
$ Diskeeper
Diskeeper Lite
xxxNo Choice

Regcleaner:
$ No Choice
F/S Regcleaner 4.3/Regclean v4.1a/RegMaid/Spybot S&D
xxx no choice

MP3
$ Cool Edit Pro (For editing a single song playback-has long loadtime no playlist capabilities)
F/S Telos Audioactive Player http://www.prosoundreview.com/showproduct.php?product=67
XXX Windows MediaPlayer/Sonique/Musicmatch Jukebox/Anything by Real

[Necropolis]

Defragmenter:
$ Perfect Disk 5
Diskeeper Lite
xxx no choice

Regcleaner:
$ No Choice
F/S Regcleaner 4.3/Spybot S&D
xxx no choice

MP3
$ no choice
F/S Winamp 2.93 (Dont want to use Winamp 3, too system hungry)
XXX Realplayer

[SimGuy]

Defragmentation:
$$: Executive Software's DisKeeper
F/S: Executive Software's DisKeeper Lite
XXX: Microsoft Defragmentation Tool


Registry Cleaner:
$$: NONE
F/S: Format.com file from MS-DOS 6.22 Floppy :D
XXX: NONE


Audio Player:
$$: Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0 & 6.4 (NOT 8 or 7)
F/S: WinAMP 2.xx or 3.xx
XXX: Real Network's "RealPlayer" or Creative MediaSource Player

[profdlp]

This weeks topics will be closing tomorrow. We will have three new areas to discuss then.

Make your opinion known about mp3 players, defrag programs, and registry cleaners while you still can!


Prof

PS: Thanks to all those who have already responded.:cool:

[Shorty]

Defragmentation:
$$: O&O DeFrag
F/S: M$ Built-In
XXX: Norton


Registry Cleaner:
$$: NONE
F/S: NONE
XXX: NONE


Audio Player:
$$: None
F/S: WinAMP 2.9
XXX: Real, quicktime & other proprietary players.

[profdlp]

Good to see the big guys setting a good example!:p


Prof

(Pimpin' my project again.:D )