Do you need third-party performance software on windows 7?

[zhangm Supervisor]

3rd party developers need to do better than that to have *any* hope of survival, so they might well have something you like better, & almost always the more reliable 3rd party apps are at least as good.

There is making a better product, and then there is making crap and marketing it as a better product. I imagine that many software companies make a pretty penny marketing buttons and progress bars because they realize that the real thing people want is to feel like they have extra control over their computer.

Third party tweaking/optimization software is like antibacterial keyboard coatings and personal air purifiers - they invent a problem and claim to offer a solution.

[tp2215]

Personally, the only one I have installed is Windows 7 manager, it has all the features I need, mostly though, there are alott of non performance tweaks that could be done to 7. Such as easily changing the logon screen via a registry key. I dont really know if it neccesserily needs performance tweaks, but it is not perfect and there are ALLOT of usability and system tweaks that could be done.

[splur]

Wow, using Windows Defrag? That's something I gave up on since Windows 98, but I'm willing to reconsider it. You guy seem to think it's fine... one less program to clutter the background may be a good thing.

[Eric Veteran]

Wow, using Windows Defrag? That's something I gave up on since Windows 98, but I'm willing to reconsider it. You guy seem to think it's fine... one less program to clutter the background may be a good thing.

I've found the Vista/7 built-in defrag works just as well as 3rd-party ones. Vista's requires some command-line manipulation to get it 'going' first. (i.e.: It should be told to defrag >64MB files at least once.)

[ViperAFK]

No.

[YounGMessiah]

Wow, using Windows Defrag? That's something I gave up on since Windows 98, but I'm willing to reconsider it. You guy seem to think it's fine... one less program to clutter the background may be a good thing.

lol

[fix-this!]

O&O Defrag 12 (win 7 compatible) is out next week,along with perfectdisk is the two best defragmentation tools.

i used to use that, very good. now i use iobit smart defrag "freeware" and i love it.