SpeedUpMyPC

[Kurtis]

We have a new review up for you guys on the new program SpeedUpMyPC from LI Utilities. You can check it out here:
http://www.thetechlounge.com/review.php?REVIEWDIR=speed_up_my_pc

Leave us some feedback!

[DnD]

LOL, i've been using this program for 4 weeks...its pretty good but its annoying as hell when it does the RAM recovery during a game...

[Kurtis]

it works well for you? could you benchmark it and show me the results? I think you can get trial versions at www.futuremark.com, get PCMark2002 and don't do the video tests, just standard tests. Do one with speedupmypc running, and one without it running. :) thx

[brbubba]

I could have told you that you would be giving it a 2.5/10 and I don't even own it. Reason number one being that I have seen a ton of spam and pop up ads for that software. Two, I think it's been years since those programs actually did any good. Three, it's kind of hard to say your program saves memory when it has to reside in memory just to work, doh. The only one that I can think of that worked well was RAMDoubler for the MAC way back in the day.

Also in the list of notoriously bad software is Norton Utilities, now dubbed system works. God is that a piece of crap.

[Kurtis]

I have Norton and I like it. Norton utilities no, but norton antivirus yes

[DnD]

actually this does work...i've been using it fork 3-4 weeks...no spam no ads you must be talking about something else my friend...other then the annoying it coming out of nowhere thing i'm fine with it...
what it does it monitores CPU usage Memory Usage and something else, when Memory Usage gets to a certain point (you can configure it to a certain point) it freezes everything goes in finds memory used but is doing nothing clears that up and unlocks it...

Benchmark?? Wth tell me what I must do kurtiS!

[Kurtis]

just go download maxmem. see if it gives you the same result, im almost positive it will work just as well if not better. speedupmypc uses a lot more memory when it is running than maxmem will. go to the review page and click on the link for MaxMem towards the bottom, its free too. MaxMem has all the same memory clearing ability as speedupmypc, thats all it has, but thats all you need, if that.

[brbubba]

DnD -

The spam was not through using the program, it was email filtered out by my POPfile. I have also seen pop-ups on various sites for that software. I would never actually use the software, especially since I have 512MB of memory.

Kurtis -

Norton Anti-Virus is fine to use, as long as you disable active scanning. All active scanning on Norton and Mcafee cause serious lags. I personally use AVG only because it's free and I was tired of paying yearly fees to Mcafee. It seems to be working great so far.

[Kurtis]

hmm. active scanning, i dont know of an option to enable / disable that, mine scans when i send, get emails though.

[brbubba]

Active Scanning is the heart and guts to the program, enabled by default. Basically it works anytime you do anything with files on your Hard Drive. It silently scans them in the background. I think you can disable it under the options, it should be the very first option.

However, without this option you are left with email scanning, download scanning, and manual file scans only. That shouldn't ever be a problem though as long as you do one full drive scan. Then if anything coming into your computer is scanned you would assume that there would be no viruses.

The only caveat to this is if your friend decided to play a mean trick on you and install a virus then, with Active Scanning disabled, you would not be able to detect it without a full hard drive scan. So just in case you might want to set Norton to do a full hard drive scan once a week, once a month, whenever you want.

[DnD]

Active Scanning is the heart and guts to the program, enabled by default. Basically it works anytime you do anything with files on your Hard Drive. It silently scans them in the background. I think you can disable it under the options, it should be the very first option.

However, without this option you are left with email scanning, download scanning, and manual file scans only. That shouldn't ever be a problem though as long as you do one full drive scan. Then if anything coming into your computer is scanned you would assume that there would be no viruses.

The only caveat to this is if your friend decided to play a mean trick on you and install a virus then, with Active Scanning disabled, you would not be able to detect it without a full hard drive scan. So just in case you might want to set Norton to do a full hard drive scan once a week, once a month, whenever you want.

Actually active scanning is a GOOD thing...if you don't have that up you don't if theirs a virus on their or not!

[brbubba]

Actually active scanning is a GOOD thing...if you don't have that up you don't if theirs a virus on their or not!

As long as you are intelligent about it, the benefits far outweigh the risks. So if you do weekly scheduled drive scans and you are scanning everything coming in, then there is no reason for you to be getting a virus. Active scanning/Full time file scanning was probably developed for people who need to set it and forget it, who couldn't understand what was really going on in the background.

[T-shirt]

Several of the current viris'es/worms are designed to hide from/disable anti-virus software.
Unless, you have the active scanning on to catch it during the install phase, you may not know you have it until it's to late!
The trade off is resources/processor time place a off/on toggle on your toolbar, so you can protect your self during risky activies (email, downloads, install)

[Kurtis]

Any time is risky now days tho. The problem is unauthroized popups and installers. I can't tell you how many times i have had some stupid phone sex dialer install on my taskbar without ever even asking me anything. I just looked and the program was running. Internet security is such crap. Somethin needs to be done about spyware and crap

[brbubba]

Any time is risky now days tho. The problem is unauthroized popups and installers. I can't tell you how many times i have had some stupid phone sex dialer install on my taskbar without ever even asking me anything. I just looked and the program was running. Internet security is such crap. Somethin needs to be done about spyware and crap

:lol: LOL, that is mad funny Kurtis. I have yet to have such an experience. Maybe you should spend less time surfing all those Porno sites.

[Kurtis]

rofl. *hangs head in shame* no but seriously, its not on porno sites, i guess its on the crack sites. Cuz uh... my friend needed to crack something... wait no... i am a cop and i wanted to shut the crack site down.. yea..

[Guest]

I have been doing research on SpeedUpMyPC. I have have noticed that one article suggested that if you have a reasonablely powerful computer, there is be no change to really take effect, however lesser computers have been tested to show drastic improvement. Have you tested the software with slower computers? I have an old HP Pavilion w/ a 733 processor w/ barely enough Ram to run Win XP and my software. (I know I really need to upgrade) I would be interested to see the results before I decide to spend a little $ to add longivity before deciding to upgrading. MG