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Puran Defrag – Fast, Efficient, Low-Cost Defragger

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Puran Defrag is a relatively new program. It’s origins only date back to August of 2007. I get lots of requests to review software and after a little research about the product and/or company I usually turn it down unless there is something there that piques my interest. In this case it was the positive comments by Donn Edwards, author of The Great Defrag Shootout.
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CCleaner v2.12 Is Out

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CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.
[25th Sep 2008]
CCleaner v2.12
– Added Google Chrome support.
– Improved cleaning security checks.
– Improved recursive cleaning functions.
– Fixed bug in INI FileKey evaluation routine.
– Updated INI file processing engine.
– Improved system info checks for modern CPUs.
– Various language and translation improvements.
– Minor GUI tweaks.

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PerfectDisk 2008 Build 64 Released

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This is the pay-for program I use for defragging:

Updates include:

* New feature — Support for per-user quotas set with File Server Resource Manager
* Bug fixes and enhancements to the defragmentation driver
* Fixed bug where system tray icon could show that PerfectDisk was idle while defragmenting
* Fixed potential vulnerability of calling CreateProcess() or ShellExecute funcrions without using quoted paths
* Fixed defragmentation of Virtual Machine host files not working with all options unchecked.

Source: Perfectdisk Blog
Update from within the program.
Why I use Perfectdisk