# Please recommend system utilities for idiots.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-system-utilities-for-idiots/145685>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 30, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-system-utilities-for-idiots/145685 "2002-12-30T15:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-system-utilities-for-idiots/145685/1 "2002-12-30T15:43:08Z")

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I’d like to get recs on the best utilities for cleaning the registry, backing up to CD, freeing up ram, etc… Can someone recommend some user friendly stuff? Thanks

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**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-system-utilities-for-idiots/145685/2 "2002-12-30T16:18:49Z")

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[Registry Cleaner](http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml) is good. Backup to CD requires a CD-R burning software, I recommend Nero. Freeing up RAM - are you referring to garbage collection? I am not aware of any utility that does that.

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**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-system-utilities-for-idiots/145685/3 "2002-12-30T16:28:10Z")

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For freeing RAM, I use Rambooster (freeware). I won’t provide a link as there are many places that provide it (just do a search). The instruction at some sites is better that others, although it is very easy to use.

I rarely have to reboot anymore.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-system-utilities-for-idiots/145685/4 "2002-12-30T16:33:03Z")

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KidCharlemagne, well it rightly would depend on what kind of computer & operating system you have…

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For me, I use System Suite 2000 on W98 & ME PCs.
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