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thejackal

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  1. Program Deactivator: It is trying to reduce the system load by programs installed on the hard drive. Many of them are listed here as using a low level of load, yet they are not programs that are running. A lot of my games on Steam are showing up on this list, even if they are not being used and Steam is not currently open or active. I am disabling them as I go, but am not sure how much improvement it can give me. I wish, for this purpose at least, there was a faster way of dealing with this. Doing each one at a time takes forever, especially when there is a list of well over 200 that could be removed. I am curious why the Program Deactivator tends to keep going to a Not Responding state after most of my attempts to disable a program. It always disables them, but only after freezing for a few seconds. After disabling a large number of programs, it encountered a fatal error and crashed. I tried to submit the bug report, but it would not send out and constantly froze in a Not Responding state. Upon restarting the program, none of the remaining programs I was going to disable were showing anymore (all, I believe, were games in my Steam profile). The system load overall seems smaller in Task Manager. Scanning seems much faster than it used to be and the options available are nice. I like the numeric percentage shown for how far along each process is as well as the visual bar. The scan allowed an additional 1 GB of things to be removed, despite running a cleaner program just a few minutes beforehand. The defragging program seems to move a bit faster than it did in Version 6. The registry cleaner found quite bit more entries than it did in previous versions, as well. Upon restarting the system, the Starting Windows screen seemed to take longer to get past. Overall internet performance does not seem drastically improved, but some pages seem to load faster. Certain aspects of loading in Windows itself (bringing up My Computer, system folders, etc) seem to load faster and there is less of a hang than there was for me. I uninstalled ASC 6 using the ASC 7 Uninstaller and was pleased to see the Powerful Scan option to remove registry options. It also found three more programs on the computer than my old standby of Absolute Uninstaller and loads the list faster than AU. I placed the folder for ASC 6 in a dif. location in my Start Menu (a folder I titled Maintenance) and it pulled all the entries in there out, but left the empty folder sitting there. Loved that it cleaned out the folder, but I would have liked f it removed the empty folder as well. The batch uninstaller looks like it might be neat to try, but I don't have use for it at the moment, so I can't test. The cloned files module found 2 pairs of duplicate files in a very short amount of time. When I used Doublekiller, it found 25 pairs of files. This module, I believe, needs a true CRC32 Checksum method. The other modules that I tested seem to work just as well as in version 6. All in all, some nice improvements were made and there is room for a little improvement in some areas, most notably the cloned file scanner. If I notice more, I will update with further findings.
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