Registry Cleaners and Memory Software

Ok I took a test drive of a few “computer Tweaker ” programs that have been well voted for on Cnet and ZDnet. They all were easy to locate, and I saw that thousands and millions have downloaded these.  I organized first by number of downloads, and by most votes. I then organized by highest vote score. all three times, these three programs came up in the top. So I decided they where the best options of this test.

The machine is Nforce 750A with AMD 5600+ two gigs of  pc 6400

dual 9500 gt 500mb Nvidia cards (sli)

Operating system is Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1

Installations were:
Registry Mechanic 9.00.0114 Of course this is a trial software.

Advanced Registry Optimizer 2010

CCleaner 2.29.1111

I really saw/felt no changes as I played a few games after each install. I am quite disappointed in the Pc gaming community. It seems there is a new wave of newbie techies advising people to use this stuff. Why do we go through this exact same wave every single time a new Operating system is released? It really seems like every time an OS is out, 8 months later there is a batch of people giving advise to use this stuff. Like memory boosters. After another 5 months, you start getting advice to overclock. You see posts like “Over clocking does not harm your computer” and masses of 20+ people backing this theory in threads of forums. Then three months later ” Help my video games have black streaks in them” Well you clearly over heated and fried your card.

End result.. Nothing fantastic. I guess what people see as being a new faster cleaner running machine, is a trick of the eye slight of hand. I swear every time I wash my car, it feels like it runs better.

Please if anyone has a new Registry software they want me to try out. and they are certain it works, Give me a thorough description of the software. Nothing larger than 15MB or I won’t touch it. This post i really wanted to go into detail, I really was ready for it. Right now i am nothing but so upset for installing this stuff I can’t write any detail other than… junk, junk, junk.

Personally I am sick of helping people after they stumble into this useless junk.
Your registry is written to for every program that is installed on your computer. These are lines of commands to tell your computer how to handle these programs. That’s it. Those lines of commands are never used if you do not use programs associated to what is has been written to your registry. Meaning: if you uninstall a program and never use that program again, then nothing on your computer will request that specific line, so that line does not have to be erased. that line will just never be necessary again. It does you no good to remove the registry entries from uninstalled programs. but you could possibly damage your computer by removing the wrong line of code. and no…. not all registry cleaners know every single program in the world and what they each use or write  in your registry.

PC Repair Tips

For the most part, this link is the reminder of the basics.

So if you are new, this link is a great starter.

If you are a know it all like my friends and I

Well this link refreshes your memory as to what the simple  is.. keeps you from overlooking the simple answer.

Why rebuild the computer  if  you could have fixed it for free????

Computer Repair tips.

Sorry but that is my old site and it has been there for at least 4 years.

ok short post :-)

Evolution of Microsoft – Windows

I know this old stuff but I have to show it as I found it.
I have been using windows since 3.11.
Broke my first pc within days of getting it.
butter knife in the floppy drive.
Ewps. Hey I was a newb.

Here is the guy who did it best .
Evolution of Microsoft

I still think he should have said Windows.

In the video, wait for win 3.1 . Does that not bring back memories? .. lol memories of aps/gadgets.

Sound recorder never really changed did it??? I wonder why that is!

XFX 750a SLI Motherboard

Since my last motherboard died three days ago, I had to trade it in, just days after I upgraded to it. So now I am using the black edition of the XFX 750a SLI nFORCE Motherboard.

Here are the stats for the machine I am using:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
Windows 7 (6.1) Ultimate Edition (Build 7100)
CPU Arch : 1 CPU – 2 Cores – 2 Threads
CPU PSN : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
CPU EXT : MMX(+), 3DNow!(+), SSE (1, 2, 3), x86-64, AMD-V
CPUID : F.B.2 / Extended : F.6B
CPU Cache : L1 : 2 x 64 / 2 x 64 KB – L2 : 2 x 512 KB
Core : Brisbane (65 nm) / Stepping : BH-G2

Freq : 2900.22 MHz (200.02 * 14.5)
MB Brand : XFX
MB Model : MD-A72P-7509
NB : NVIDIA nForce 740a SLI rev A2
SB : NVIDIA nForce 740a SLI MCP rev A2
GPU1 Type : NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
GPU1 Clocks : Core 550 MHz / RAM 500 MHz
GPU2 Type : NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
GPU2 Clocks : Core 550 MHz / RAM 500 MHz
DirectX Version : 11.0

RAM : 2048 MB DDR2 Dual Channel
RAM Speed : 362.5 MHz (Unknown) @ 5-5-5-18
Slot 1 : 1024MB (6400)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 2 : 1024MB (6400)
Slot 2 Manufacturer : Corsair

This motherboard is probably the most complicated install I have done since my old old EPOX motherboard back in 98. Actual jumper usage for overclocking. If configured incorrectly, you will not be able to boot to any operating system. On day one, I fell asleep in a pile of computer parts at 3 Oclock in the morning, sitting on my floor at the foot of my bed. So determined to finish the job. The next day I woke up to my alarm clock at 6 am and left for work, hurting from sleeping sitting up. The instruction book that came with the motherboard, was a lame accordion fold thing that just listed content and identified parts. All the use I had of a search engine was through my G1 phone. Glad I had it though. I was going to give up, but I found people leaving reviews at some sites (for buying computer parts) and the reviews they left said really bad stuff (not looking good) then there were follow ups saying ” ok last review was right in the sense it expressed how I felt, but after learning how to work this better, This is an awesome motherboard. Clearly not for the novice, oh and the full instruction manual is a pdf on the driver install disk”. That is sooo owrong. I was wanting to give up and take it back but I see that other people had a rough start and they figured it out. So now i was determined.

There is a huge set of jumpers between the PCI-E slots, move the jumpers to position 3-4 for all of them, you will be fine.. That is if you want to use the pci-e slots. If you intend to use SLI mode, you will lose the option of pci-e1. So take out all pci-e 1 cards.

There is a jumper next to the  onboard power/reset/cmos buttons. No matter what the book says, leave it at  1-2 pins. That is of course, if you just want the machine to boot up. Mess with the whole overclocking feature later when you confirm the machine works.

There is another jumper at the foot of the green PCI-E slot. That slot is labeled as being PCI-E4 . Really it is not what you think. that is actually the primary display slot. I know, it’s not the ideal typical location. Just do it, use that slot you will understand later. If you need to know now, it’s the closest spot to the north bridge (there you happy?).

Boot to bios and set everything back to default. Go to “JusTWoot” (lol)

XFX 750a Bios

Just Woot in my Bios

and set everything to auto. go to pc health and check to make sure that your processor is reading at the default speed. Mine kept overclocking to 4940 MHZ, That’s  2 gigs over default. Explains why it would crash most of the way through boot up.

After setting everything up and getting my machine running at default, it took me 15 hours of hard brain scratching work to get it going, I have to say, this is clearly by far the best motherboard I have ever purchased. I am far beyond satisfied. I can not thank the one person on the review system who retracted his negitive review by saying  that the people who reviewed it negitivly , clearly where counting on just plug and play. I love this motherboard.

At default I out benchmark any previous motherboard my components have been plugged into. Now I shall focus on geting new components.


MSI K9A2 CF Motherboard Review

So far this has been a nice upgrade for me. I moved from an ECS GeForce7050M-M

Here are the specs of what I upgraded from and why

Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture ( I never saw the DC, I always ran at 400mhz)

2 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 16 GB (will never happen only 2 slots)

Support DDR2 800/667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM (I always saw it at lowest speeds even after max upgrade)

Well after a bit of less than one week, the PCI express slot, dies on me, I had to return the motherboard. it was the last of that kind they had at the fry’s by home. So i moved on to an xfx motherboard.

but the benchmarks I received on that motherboard where higher than I ever had, all I upgraded was the motherboard. that’s crazy. I used the same processor and sticks of ram, and my scores doubled over my past motherboard with the exact same components.

Well here is the review of the new motherboard XFX 750a Black Edition

Amd Clock and Windows &

I have used amd clock 2.01 since I first heard about it back when I was on windows xp.
The thing always shows how much of my processor is being used. It did not show me what I kind of wanted to see
like how much I have and how much is left ( cpu resources).

Well I am now on Windows seven after trying many variants of xp and many variants of vista.
So far windows seven is “Alright” but really. I have many issues with the O/S.

Amd Clock On Windows 7

Just a three weeks ago, on vista it would show 1.9 ghz until I would actually utilize some of the
resources of the cpu. Then it would crank up to the max. I find this weird now
That it shows my min as greater than my max, and when I use my processor it shows I have greater
cpu power.

Amd And Overclocking on Windows seven, hmm might = POP

Amd And Overclocking on Windows seven, hmm might = POP

I have an AMD 5600 processor, it’s a 2.9 cpu.
I think amd needs to update it’s clock tool, or windows seven is doing weird stuff.