Best Freeware Utilities and why you like it
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Best Freeware Utilities Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com Why?: On my 2002 HP XP Home I tried to uninstall Adobe 5 Reader. One .OCX file which was tied to Explorer would not delete. Unlocker usually will unlock the file so you can delete it. Unable to do so it offered to delete it at the next start up. After starting up with the file gone I ran CCleaner and it let me remove around 20 entries left by Adobe Reader 5. Now I was able to install the full Acrobat 5 cleanly. Winaudit http://www.psdu506.demon.co.uk Why because it is extremely fast. Tells you about your PC and what is going on and shows you error logs. I have only used it since I got it in MaximumPC magazine disk recently, the URl is a more recent version, but it has shown me a lot of things which are usually a pain to access. MicroCenter tech support guy recommended Belarc Advisor, anyone use it? Now if I can find good explanations for the Event and Error codes, I may be able to keep my PC running without problems. Anyone know of a program to compact the registry? I am also looking for a File Manager to replace Explorer since it keeps ending abruptly, leaves icons for USB drives that have been removed and other weird stuff. If You could only keep one utility program which would that be? That would be something to recommend. Thanks.
BSOD lost C: and no recovery disks. No restore program to access D: Retired Ron
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Best Freeware Utilities Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com Why?: On my 2002 HP XP Home I tried to uninstall Adobe 5 Reader. One .OCX file which was tied to Explorer would not delete. Unlocker usually will unlock the file so you can delete it. Unable to do so it offered to delete it at the next start up. After starting up with the file gone I ran CCleaner and it let me remove around 20 entries left by Adobe Reader 5. Now I was able to install the full Acrobat 5 cleanly. Winaudit http://www.psdu506.demon.co.uk Why because it is extremely fast. Tells you about your PC and what is going on and shows you error logs. I have only used it since I got it in MaximumPC magazine disk recently, the URl is a more recent version, but it has shown me a lot of things which are usually a pain to access. MicroCenter tech support guy recommended Belarc Advisor, anyone use it? Now if I can find good explanations for the Event and Error codes, I may be able to keep my PC running without problems. Anyone know of a program to compact the registry? I am also looking for a File Manager to replace Explorer since it keeps ending abruptly, leaves icons for USB drives that have been removed and other weird stuff. If You could only keep one utility program which would that be? That would be something to recommend. Thanks.
BSOD lost C: and no recovery disks. No restore program to access D: Retired Ron
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Retired amature Visual Basic 6 programmer
I guess that explains why you think the "Windows Forms" forum is for discussing Utility Programs :rolleyes:
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He tried elsewhere and it didnt work out very well. :doh:
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