GrimeFighter

Discussion in 'Software' started by Caliban, Jan 26, 2014.

  1. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Greetings.

    Just had a new pop-up on a Win7 SP1 machine from avast! 2014.9.0.2011 called "GrimeFighter", a self-described "PC optimization and clean-up utility".

    Wondering if anyone has used this, and if so is it worthwhile? Thanks for any info/input.
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    Caliban, Jan 26, 2014
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  2. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    I don't think I'd trust it. I've used CCleaner for quite a while and CCleaner is trusted by MG's.
     
    mdonah, Jan 26, 2014
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  3. psco2007

    psco2007 Master Sergeant

    "
    Stay away from any program that says it can speed up or fix any registry problems.
    They will only find errors, even on a clean install.

    They will only screw up your computer.
    The only things that can make it faster are: an SSD, more ram and a quality CPU.
     
    psco2007, Jan 26, 2014
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  4. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Appreciate the replies, but I'm looking for input from anyone who has actually used the GrimeFighter routine.
     
    Last edited: Jan 27, 2014
    Caliban, Jan 27, 2014
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  5. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Maybe I wasn't clear in my original post: "GrimeFighter" is part of the avast! package (located in avast!'s 'Tools' section) and appears to do roughly the same thing as CCleaner: cleans trash, monitors startups, looks for bloatware and obsolete registry entries.
     
    Caliban, Jan 27, 2014
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