Utilities Poll - The Playoffs! (Part II)

profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
Alrighty folks, this is the penultimate poll in this series. (For you non Liberal Arts majors, penultimate means "next-to-last" :D )

Let me apologize for the last "week" running so long. Life has its duties as well as its pleasures. :rolleyes:

Having gone through ten weeks of polling to choose the Short-Media Approved Utilities list, we have compiled a list of the "must have" programs our members rely on to keep their computers running in fine style.

Now it's time to choose the Best Of The Best!

The winners, (and runners-up in close races), are now competing to see which will be chosen as the single indispensable tool in the battle against computer problems. Once again, we'll have ten options to chose from this week. The top three vote-getters will then compete with last week's (Part I) winners to see which will be chosen as the #1 Utility.

Obviously, there are alternatives to all of the utilities in their respective categories. The purpose of this playoff is to determine the one tool for which you would not wish to have use an alternative program.

Choosing a single program doesn't mean you can't run a different program in a separate category. If your top choice this week is Norton CleanSweep, you could still have an mp3 player, just not Winamp, and vice-versa. Looking at the categories, most of us probably run some type of program of each type. The idea is to find the one program which is so good that you would rather make-do with a lesser choice in another category than be without it.

Put another way, if you could only afford to buy a high-performance carburetor or mag wheels for your car and use stock parts for the other, which would you pick?


So, which of these ten would you not want to live without?

Comments

  • croc_croc_ New
    edited December 2003
    only one of those I use is 3Dmark ... so ... guess where I voted?

    //edit: BTW, FIRST VOTE AND POST!!! WINNAR!@!~!~!
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    There is not one of those programms that I would be heartbroken without, and there is no 'none of the above option'...
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    seems I'm forever running 3DM2K1, best shareware (??is that what it is??) value ever for this user. And because it's so well known and recognized and has been analyzed to death, we know that it's a good *general indicator* of overall system performance, not just video.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited December 2003
    CBDroege had this to say
    There is not one of those programms that I would be heartbroken without, and there is no 'none of the above option'...
    I picked the top 20 from Weeks 1-10 to be the candidates for the playoffs. Each of the first 10 weeks had an "Other" choice. I debated adding an "other" choice here, but it seemed that would be re-opening the previous polls.

    Next week we will have the World Cup/Super Bowl/Stanley Cup/NBA Championship/Sugar Bowl/ Super Bowl of our playoff. Hopefully you'll find one to go for there! :thumbsup:
  • MachineGunKellyMachineGunKelly The STICKS, Illinois
    edited December 2003
    3DMark definately
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    croc said exactly what I was gonna say...
  • DragstkDragstk Syracuse, N.Y.
    edited December 2003
    This weeks vote was a tuff one!! Goggle tool bar, Diskeeper, and SpyBot, all good programs. But I went with the SpyBot. Gotta keep the bad stuff out.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Winamp.

    I can format the crap away, I can tweak myself.. But nothin' is gettin' in the way of winamp and I.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited December 2003
    GHoosdum had this to say
    croc said exactly what I was gonna say...

    word for word?
  • BriltBrilt brooklyn
    edited December 2003
    Thrax had this to say
    Winamp.

    I can format the crap away, I can tweak myself.. But nothin' is gettin' in the way of winamp and I.

    what he said
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    Diskeeper for me. Sounds silly, but my RAID arrays are nothing without a good defragmentation package to keep them running optimaly.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    3dmark cause there is alternatives to everything else on that list that are comparable but nothing compares to 3dmark in that catagory
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    Okay people, your week of voting and discussion is up. Time to move on to the next and final topic. Thanks to all of you for voting and posting your thoughts.

    SPINNER

    Week 13 can be found at the link below and the subject is 'The Championship'
    After ten individual polls in ten different categories and two weeks of playoffs, the time has come to choose the S-M members single favorite utility program.
    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7259
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