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Curt:
Really, stay away of these auto optimizers. -Lashiec (January 30, 2008, 02:01 PM)
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Maybe it would be appropriate to distinct between this, these and some.

I installed and ran it on my test machine and it made a good difference.-cmpm (January 29, 2008, 12:21 PM)
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BTW:
- and with option to restore.-Curt (January 30, 2008, 01:59 AM)
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:up:

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Will check it out some more after work or tomorrow.-cmpm (January 29, 2008, 12:21 PM)
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I, for one, will be anxious for your report and findings on this.-BigJim (January 29, 2008, 10:01 PM)
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- me too, cmpm.
How big a difference do you think it made? How many and which options did you activate? 

 :tellme:

cmpm:
Curt,

I think everything it can do, it did.
I don't think it tweaked much considering the time it took-1 second.

Everything loads faster on reboot, once you are past the logon screen.
In fact it was so fast that Firefox loaded before the rest of the icons in my tray could load.
I have 12 programs loading at startup.

The thing I saw was that I did not get the icons of all the programs that are supposed to be running on startup, but they are running when I checked task manager.
All I had to do was log off and log back on to get all the icons in the tray.
But that has been a problem off and on with XP anyway.

And fodder, I don't think you know everything that runs in XP do you?
What every .dll is for, every file does?

I'm not trying to sell this damn program.
It's free anyway.
I wanted to know if anyone else has used it.

And I didn't check the obvious things like page file settings and performance settings yet.
I forgot to check those.
It will probably be this weekend or the next before I can see more. And I want to go through their forums and see what is being said.

I don't have a lot of time to play, that's why I limited my question to 'has anyone used or heard of it' or whatever I said up there.

ok?!

Lashiec:
Maybe it would be appropriate to distinct between this, these and some.
-Curt (January 30, 2008, 05:01 PM)
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These, as referring the program that titles the thread. Why? It gives you a set of options and says "Click here to optimize x", "Click here to optimize y", then press "Apply", and your computer will go faster. Whoo, and the program did, what? Optimize hard disk -> Disable registering last access (I guess), that it's a good thing for performance, but if you use temp files cleaners, we have a problem. Optimize processor -> Set the size of the L2 cache in the registry (a classic), that does absolutely nothing. Oh, and it prevents from getting miselanious cookies, great.

Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh, but I know these programs since a long time, at the turn of the millennium, tweaking Windows was the coolest thing ever, and the net was blooming with these apps, that did absolutely nothing, or totally obscured what they did, something that pissed me off. Of course, there are apps that gives you access to system tweaking, but without using empty tricks and telling you what are they going to do, and they're highly useful for various things, not only for making Windows run "faster". A good example? TweakUI or the same XPConfig that lanux mentions.

I understand cmpm concerns and we're not criticising you, but only giving some warning about possible problems that such software could inflict on Windows. I mean, in Curt's case, it brought the whole system down ;D

lanux128:
i remember an old tweaker program called X-Setup that showed you what are the changes it is going to make to your system and also had a "recorder" function to revert the settings. i think the program has now changed from freeware to shareware.

you can check out this web-site for useful tweaks (but a bit dated): http://www.mdgx.com/wxp.htm.

cmpm:
I just realized I used version 1.0.

And there is a 2.0.

Curt, you must have used 2.0.
I don't know the diff but I will try 2.0 sometime.
In 1.0 there is only one option, one optimize button.
2.0 has more options.

Here's a google search for it.
Some had problems, others didn't.
I think if you already have some optimizer then they would conflict possibly.
The top one is 2.0, then there are some reviews.
And of course we are in there too :).

http://www.google.com/search?q=Thoosje+Quick+XP+Optimizer&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS255US257

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