Comments on: The Mystery of the Horrible Boot Speed http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2009/05/21/the-mystery-of-the-horrible-boot-speed/ The consumer's refuge from technological insanity. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: stent http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2009/05/21/the-mystery-of-the-horrible-boot-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-800 stent Thu, 21 May 2009 17:29:51 +0000 http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/?p=189#comment-800 A couple of comments; i used to run AVG 8.x Free Edition on my Vista Home Premium, and later switched to Avast Home Edition (free) and the latter is much much better in terms of resource usage as well as performance. For defrag, I've been using Diskeeper 2009 Professional (2008 pro previously) and it works really nicely on Vista. Useful features like MFT defrag, system file defrag, low resource usage, VSS protection (good on Vista), i faast file optimization/sequencing as well as fully automatic operation. It's much faster than the slow-as-a-snail Vista defragger, so the drives dont grind for hours. As for the browser, i am a die-hard Opera fan :) so nothing else will do for me. Lean, fast, secure and highly customizable right out of the box! Highly recommend the above applications. A couple of comments; i used to run AVG 8.x Free Edition on my Vista Home Premium, and later switched to Avast Home Edition (free) and the latter is much much better in terms of resource usage as well as performance.

For defrag, I’ve been using Diskeeper 2009 Professional (2008 pro previously) and it works really nicely on Vista. Useful features like MFT defrag, system file defrag, low resource usage, VSS protection (good on Vista), i faast file optimization/sequencing as well as fully automatic operation. It’s much faster than the slow-as-a-snail Vista defragger, so the drives dont grind for hours.

As for the browser, i am a die-hard Opera fan :) so nothing else will do for me. Lean, fast, secure and highly customizable right out of the box!

Highly recommend the above applications.

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