Utilities Poll - The Championship!

profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
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.

There Can Be Only One!

Since polling began, there have been over 100 programs to choose from. We've narrowed that field to seven. (We had a tie in last week's playoff round, so both have been included.)

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 is Norton AntiVirus, 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?

Note: Poll closes December 20, 2003!

Comments

  • DragstkDragstk Syracuse, N.Y.
    edited December 2003
    All these are great programs, and I use them all. But anti virus wins as I have learned that keeping the computer free of virus's keeps me running longer, faster, more.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I'll keep voting Ad-Aware because I despise Norton....
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited December 2003
    nero because its so HOT (har har)
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    adaware cause spyware sucks and popups suck especially when mom is using it while i am upgrading her and get a pop up for pron
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    Dragstk had this to say
    All these are great programs, and I use them all. But anti virus wins as I have learned that keeping the computer free of virus's keeps me running longer, faster, more.

    Those are my thoughts too.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited December 2003
    Keep in mind, we are voting for programs, not categories. Voting for another program doesn't mean you can't use any Anti-Virus program, just not Norton.

    Don't mean to be a Johnny-One-Note, but I still get PM's asking to clarify this.

    Thanks for voting - looks like this is shaping up to be a very, very close contest! :)
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Winamp. It runs on my computer 100 times more than anything on the list.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Dragstk had this to say
    All these are great programs, and I use them all. But anti virus wins as I have learned that keeping the computer free of virus's keeps me running longer, faster, more.

    Exactly what I've been saying all along! NAV wins because I'd rather be virus-free above all!
  • DisvengeanceDisvengeance
    edited December 2003
    yes id definatly rather have nortan than anything else... cause viruses are poison for computers ;)
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited December 2003
    profdlp had this to say
    Keep in mind, we are voting for programs, not categories. Voting for another program doesn't mean you can't use any Anti-Virus program, just not Norton.

    Don't mean to be a Johnny-One-Note, but I still get PM's asking to clarify this.

    Thanks for voting - looks like this is shaping up to be a very, very close contest! :)

    I've tried a whole host of AV programs and in my humble opinion, nothing has ever come to close to Norton. There's Antivirus programs and then there's Norton Antivirus.

    p.s (That 'Johnny-One-Note' thing had me in stitches, can't tell you exactly why though, chortle he he;D )
  • rdwittyrdwitty Upstate New York
    edited December 2003
    I've been using Norton Antivirus for a few years and I'd have to say I don't know how long my computer would of last without it (especially with my sister's complete lack of computer knowledge). She freaked out once when she got that infamous "You are the 1,000,000 th visitor to this site! collect your prize now!" pop up
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I have moved to AVG for my AV workload.
    So Spybot it is. I hate that ad trash. (Not as much as Prime, but I still hate it)
This discussion has been closed.