Auslogics BoostSpeed for Free (Expired)

Thanks from me too. They say you can never reason with the unreasonable but that doesn't stop me trying. I studied for nearly 3 years for my PhD in an attempt to understand human nature in more detail, but I think the more I learn the less I know. I can also identify with your multi-task abilities. The problem I have is that my wife expects me to accomplish most of these things in less than a day while still keeping one eye on the computer.
Thanks for such a great boost :)

Let me add my voice in agreement.

I work for the help desk in a medium size company and free tech utilities are essential for my work.

I regard these free programs as a blessing. I don't expect to get such high quality programs for free but I am delighted that I do.

But I'm regularly shocked by the attitude of people on this site and others who see "free" as their God-given right.

Stop whinging and instead count your blessings I say.

I am agree and support your opinion or response on that matter.
I am currently using IOBit Advanced System Care actually, but do also use Auslogic defragmenter.
Once more, Ian has proved to me that he still keeps his point of view balanced and straightforward.
Thank you, Ian.

Beautifully said, if I may say so myself.

But Mr. Richards, I do believe that given the extraordinary record you and others have built here at Gizmo, you have nothing to be defensive about, NOTHING. Respectfully, it's time to put this conversation to rest...

May I suggest that further posts on this thread only be allowed to discuss how the product works. I personally just trued Auslogic's "regular" defrag (looks as though their site was finally accessible under FF, I had been unsuccessful getting there for quite a while) and the product seemed to work just fine for the first defrag I attempted.

Well after my tests comparing both CC Cleaner and Glary Utilities it does seem to be faster and do a deeper cleaning of the registry. It also cleaned even more junk files than Glary Utilities cleaned. But CC Cleaner still found some files it removed as junk files that were missed. So I would agree with Gizmos call about it being a program to consider.

If we don't check out and see where we might need to change then we become trapped in the "one" way we've always done things. That's not necessarily good. I've added this program based on what I saw in it's performance comparison between Glary and CC not as a replacement for Glary or CC Cleaner but as an addition to them. I guess I'm paranoid enough that I'll never rely on just one or two. It seems that all fall short in some area.

I might also add that the pro model contains a memory optimizer that does seem to help. The first time I can say I've seen any difference using one. I know that IE and Firefox were much snappier and word and excel loaded noticeably faster using it in my tests. That was truly a surprise since as I stated I've never seen a memory optimizer that made an detectable difference before. And that's with me using Windows 7 which is much better optimized with regard to memory management than any of the other windows products. It could well make a much larger difference with XP. I'll be looking at that soon.

So my vote goes for Gizmo and always pushing the envelope. If that's not what you want check out other sites or just ignore what you don't like and don't try to stop what is a service that most of us want and use.

If you feel Gizmo is becoming a source of spam... simply unsubscribe from the mails, and stop coming here. But you wont do that, because Gizmo's Freeware is one of the best sites for freewares on the internet. If you want to find a good freeware for a category, or you need help choosing a freeware, Gizmo is the place to be. That's why people keep coming here.
So, please, do not make such statements... just because you don't like an offer being put up on the site, which may benefit other people... or might be good for people who like to use different softwares.

agree with that...i've heard of Auslogics before, prob for their defrag - but whats the point of mentioning every new freebie unless they are demonstrably(?) about as good(or better) as some of the old standbys...maybe a section of the site could be called "new freebies" and only something major like the Online Armor, we could be notified about...

better way to go is to keep improving the individual sections on each type of program, with better rating and evaluating systems...that's what i come to this site for...

I have to agree with you Anonymous. What is the point when it is proven by testimonials and editors comments that other progs are doing a better job. Also agree that there is to much superfluous stuff coming though - occasionally.
But we still love our Gismo, so i hope they are listening.

While this is not an application I will use myself, I may recommend it to my mother. I provide long distance support for her and this sounds like a utility she may be able to use herself - the less buttons and options the better.

So as far as I'm concerned, there is still good reason to subscribe to Gizmo's notifications. This particular recommendation even comes with the disclaimer: "...More advanced users would probably prefer to choose their own utilities to carry out each of these tasks."

Thanks, Gizmo. Keep 'em coming! If they don't work for my situation, they might for someone else.

" a defragmented disc is far less noisy, and subject to far less wear and tear than a disc which is defragmented"

should of course read "a defragmented disc is far less noisy, and subject to far less wear and tear than a disc which is FRAGMENTED"

Also of course, what is meant here is DATA ( your files ) on the disc being fragmented. The actual physical state of the disc does not change. Fragmented means that files are broken up into non-contiguous sections of data, and this causes excessive "seek" and "write" overheads, and increased wear on the head mechanism.

Defragmenting the disc puts this data back into contiguous segments.

Also, the differences in many such programs are minimal. Some are more "aggressive" than others, and can find more "junk". This of course is a possible source of problems. Deleting various things might cause you severe problems, so the more aggressive a program is the more you have to know before you can use it successfully. In general, and within reasonable limits, it doesn't matter much which programs you use as long as they work properly. Removing two or three, or even a hundred, "extra" junk entries from the registry wont make any difference to your machine.

Disc cleaners which remove more "junk" files are of course better than others which remove less, but the more aggressive ones require more knowledge and "hands-on" from the user.

If you don't know anything at all about the registry, then it is best not to use many registry cleaners at all, as they will cause you problems that you can not easily fix.

The registry is simply a database on your machine which Windows uses to store all its parameters and instructions. Like any other database it does benefit form being cleaned and conpacted occasionally, but there is no point in doing this every day for instance, that would just be a waste of time and possibly cause errors which would otherwise not occur. ALWAYS back up the registry before ANY changes.

The same applies to agrressive disc cleaners.

Using some of these programs sensibly will keep your machine running smoothly, but it wont make it go any faster.

Other "tuning" programs and "tweaks" can make some things faster, but once again you have to know what you are doing to take advantage of them. For most normal users this is pointless in any case, as such performance increases are often very specific, to a particular program or operation.

Some "general" tweaks will disable parts of the system, working on the principle that the less the sytem has to do, the faster it is. This is fine as long as you don't NEED those parts of the system, but for most users this is a dangerous route to take, as it may cause lots of things not to run or to function improperly, and most then have no idea how to troubleshoot the ensuing problems. Also, if you "tweak" the system and don't use images for backup, when you install the sytem again you will lose all the tweaks.

The best policy of all for a normal user is to make regular backups of his system and data files.

I am extremely disappointed in your decision not to recommend IOBIT programs. The negative reports on WOT ALL come from a campaign by MALWAREBYTES against IOBIT alleging fraud, a claim IOBIT rejects and has answered in a believable manner even if MALWAREBYTES was not satisfied with the explanation. With no clear independent evidence on either side, I assume you will also not recommend or support anything from MALWAREBYTES either. To be honest, just as believable is that someone from MALWAREBYTES made the submissions to IOBIT which caused the problems, to discredit a competitor who had previously had a good reputation for their other programs.
I thought GIZMOs was independent?
You continued recommending DRIVE SENTRY even though forums showed customers being defrauded by them by buying the full version "for life" only to have that program stopped and incorporated into another version for which they were forced to pay again or lose functionality.

Thanks, Kendall.
Conrad

just unplug your mouse and keyboard, boot the machine and plug them in again. Normally the drivers will be re-installed automatically.

If not, you will asked for the drivers.

What happened when you used the programs own restore function?

Please post a screenshot of the report for the operation stated here in the forum and we'll be able to offer more assistance.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/general-computer-support/

I bet the firm 'hopes' people will opt for their $30 dollar full paying version. That is precisely what is so wrong with this poorly written piece of 'advertisement by stealth'. Why is there no footnote here advising the fact, a fully functional Auslogics registry cleaner can be downloaded FREE from cnet.
Thereby, voiding the temptation to needlessly pay for the fully functional Speedboost product. Gizmos is letting the consumer down on this one IMHO.