Thread: Best PC utilities. What do you run?

Secunia PSI
Process Lasso
F.Lux
Driver Update

Antivirus: MSE
Firewall: MSE
Maleware/spyware: none
System utilities: none
Media players: VLC, Gom

^ Fondles you should really be running a malware/spyware app mate.

^^ I d/led Secunia and process lasso.

Most of that anti shit does more harm than good, especially those that piss around in your registry.

I only have avg free for protection.

I also have that vlc player and winamp of yours Snub, but they get little use, now that I stream most my shit to the TV and surround using serviio, which is tons better than Samsungs own Allshare software.

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

Serviio media server

Originally Posted by Fondles

Antivirus: MSE
Firewall: MSE
Maleware/spyware: none
System utilities: none
Media players: VLC, Gom

MSE isn't a firewall.

Personally I think you're mad.

You should probably change that to "Malware/Spyware/Adware: Fucking loads of the shit".

Does anyone still use WMP?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I also have that vlc player and winamp of yours Snub, but they get little use, now that I stream most my shit to the TV and surround using serviio, which is tons better than Samsungs own Allshare software.

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

Serviio media server

Went to this site but I still don't understand what this is.

How is this set up? How do you use it?

Originally Posted by misskit

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I also have that vlc player and winamp of yours Snub, but they get little use, now that I stream most my shit to the TV and surround using serviio, which is tons better than Samsungs own Allshare software.

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

Serviio media server

Went to this site but I still don't understand what this is.

How is this set up? How do you use it?

I'd say RTFM but if you still fancy a go:

Serviio DLNA media server

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Most of that anti shit does more harm than good

Dude no.

Originally Posted by leemo

Does anyone still use WMP?

No they shouldn't.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Best PC utilities. What do you run?

I run:

WDR2
EOE
LGM
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Women deserve respect too.
Equal opportunity employers.
Legalize gay Marriage.
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Originally Posted by Fondles

If it all turns to shite it not a complicated process to dump the system and remount my HDD image.

True but not the point of this thread.

Originally Posted by Fondles

I did run malware programs there for a while but they never found anything and I prefer to not have too much running in the background anyways....seems kinda dumb to have to install a 3rd party program (whats that Lasso thing you have) to keep in check all the other shite you having running.

Well if you saw the shit various appliances that I run hoover up before it gets anywhere near the users, you might have a different opinion. And that's just normal browsing.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by Fondles

If it all turns to shite it not a complicated process to dump the system and remount my HDD image.

True but not the point of this thread.

Yeah my bad, is the point of the thread to list how many non essential programs you are running to see who has the system with the most baggage/lag ?

AVG
Windows Firewall
Spybot, Malwarebytes
VLC and AIMP2 but mostly just use VLC
(As media players have come up) I'll add Ps3 media server for streaming from the PC to the TV via the playstation.

Best PC utility that I ever installed was Mac OS X

Antivirus: Eset
Firewall: Windows
Malware/spyware: None.
System utilities: C Cleaner ( going to give Glary a go )
Media players: VLC and GOM....GOM now has 200% Volume control like VCL

AVG
CCLeaner
Superantispyware
Spybot S+D

Antivirus: Microsoft security Ess

Firewall: Windows

Malware/spyware: Malwarebytes , Superantispyware

System utilities: C Cleaner , Auslogics boost speed , Revo unistaller

Media players: Wondershare player , VLC , Nero Kwik media

Clipboard extender : Comfort clipboard pro

Screencapture : Windows snipping tool , Ashampoo snap 5

Text to speech: Ivona mini reader + British Amy voice ,

Ad blocker : Admuncher

Music Player / converter : Foobar 2000

Book reader / converters : Calibre , Mobipocket reader , Sigil

World time map : Crave world clock

'paid' for ones in bold.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

using serviio

what machine are you using as your server and what is it running ?

minidlna is an open source option

Antivirus: Avast
Firewall: Zonealarm
System utilities: RegScrub
Media players: MusicBee, GOM

Originally Posted by Norton

System utilities: RegScrub

I'm far from a Techie typa guy, but from what I've read from people who know much more than me programs that mess about with your registry usually do more harm than good.

I believe that the stuff that could be cleaned out wouldn't effect your PC in any sort of negative way (making it slower, crashing etc.) but that some of the stuff that they may clean out could effect programs from running as they should.

I really don't know, just going on what I've read.

Having done, a program called RegScrub comes across as maybe a bit extreme for a home computer.

Originally Posted by blue

Screencapture : Windows snipping tool , Ashampoo snap 5

You use two different programs for screen capturing?

Originally Posted by Mikey Forester

Originally Posted by blue

Screencapture : Windows snipping tool , Ashampoo snap 5

You use two different programs for screen capturing?

Are you joking

only 2 ? no way man, I'm a klepomaniac I've got at least 5

I also have:

Ashaampoo 6 pro - a few more features than free 5

Jetscreenshot - free - if I want to quickly show the capture over the internet
Capture your screen, annotate it and share screensnap over the Globe in three clicks!

Sketchbook Snapshot - opens the image straight up in Autodesks art programme - Sketchbook Pro- so I can cheat and trace around it , just like when I was a kid using greaceproof paper.


yes
gone are the days of scratching my head trying to get '' print screen'' to work .