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   Review - NTREGOPT

   1.1j (Dec 22, 2007)

   NTRegOpt and its little brother, EruNT, are such intelligent programs that they seem disharmonious in company with that Bimbo of ME-2 nostalgia known as Vista. If you do mix these expressions of genuine creative quality with crass muckabout Genuine Greed, you'll want to use TweakUAC.exe (internet freeware, or any other means of disabling User Account Control, so to provide breathing space for NTRegOpt. This is the second best way to let NTRegOpt keep the system sweet; although I would think most people (who were bright enough to be running NTRegOpt in the first place) would be bright enough to have upgraded from Vista back to XP some time ago.

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   Review - FastStone Image Viewer

   2.7 Beta 5 (Oct 17, 2006)

   FastStone comes on strong against Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and I think it's going to be the very pretty favourite (no kidding, it IS good-looking) of that great big group of people who stay close to the way things looked when they first had a friend set up their computers. In theory, FastStone competes against Xn View and IrfanView, but I don't think it does. Those guys are off on their own, and even their names suggest a different kind of user. FastStone is all about sleek, and it is intended to be a visual pleasure to use—seems like a reasonable enough goal for a visuals viewer. I actually rated it a little less than 5 originally, but in re-thinking I decided that it deserves 5 out of 5 for attaining what it obviously sets out to attain. The other reviewers are right. But FastStone is no bimbo, despite its pretty charms; methinks it is purposely not engaging direct competition with XnView et al. Probably FastStone intends to just stay where it has placed itself for awhile, gathering no moss while it continues work in progress. The high-numbered Beta 5 speaks for itself—this program seeks to improve.

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   Review - RegSeeker

   1.51 (Oct 17, 2006)

   RegSeeker has long established itself as one of the best of the best. It is a beautiful piece of true freeware, unattached to any marketing at all. It does not even suggest you should do anything—it leaves all choices up to you, assuming you have a conceptual understanding of the process. The process, of course, is cleaning your registry, which gathers a lot of broken files and bits and pieces of old links as you use your system. How quickly this happens depends largely on how often you download new programs, or update or remove old ones. You can demonstrate the damage by noticing how many items are found in a sweep by RegSeeker (or any other registry cleaner): about a dozen is typical of a clean system; hundreds or even over a thousand in a system not maintained. Most of the time when I help people "clean out viruses", the problem in fact is a very cluttered registry, which causes Windows to continually look for the nonexistent references to all those broken links. If you are pretty inactive with your computer, use RegSeeker about once a week. Active pros may use it several times a day. As I said, it does not tell you what to do, but if your system is running well, you should be able to delete the whole schmeer of what it finds. Even so, this IS a registry-altering program, so you must be aware that, yes, you could cause yourself some problems in so doing. RegSeeker has thought of that, too—it has a backup, which will draw itself to your attention as you go through the motions. It is simply one superb piece of well-designed, superbly crafted piece of software. Thanks to the folks who make these things available to us for free.