Acronis True Image 10 or Norton Ghost 10?

[isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org]

"Anna" <myname@myisp.net> wrote in
news:OrQD9OYGHHA.1276@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

> Ghost 2003 - Unfortunately it seems the program has virtually
> disappeared from the market. While it's included in Symantec's Ghost 9
> & 10 retail boxed versions, few if any online vendors carry it any
> more as a standalone product. The last time I checked some months ago
> I could find only a single vendor who was still carrying it.
>

http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=ghost+2003


Interesting read:

Skip Norton Ghost 2003
Backup/disk-imaging program is for PC pros only.
Robert Luhn


http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,10...1/article.html


I don't mind the PC Pros comment because I'm quite an experienced user.
It's the 2nd paragraph that interests me. Does ATI do all this, too?



> Ghost 2003 has some good features. It can make an exact copy (clone) of
your hard disk, from data to the state of the OS, so it's a natural tool
for system recovery, duplicating your desktop PC on your laptop, or
moving everything from an old PC to a new system. It can store drive
images on just about any kind of media--including another hard drive in
your computer, a network server, an external USB or FireWire hard drive,
or various CD-RW and DVD-RW/+RW discs. This version also adds Linux and
NTFS support; largely eliminates the need for a boot disk; and lets you
join two PCs via a USB, parallel, or network connection and then clone
one to the other.
>



Anna - when you discuss ATI - are you referring to the Workstation v 9.1
or the new Home Version 10?

[Ron Lopshire]

Heather wrote:
> "louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4tpgk4F15b86lU2@mid.individual.net...
>
>>I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I uninstall a
>>particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to seek out all references
>>to those particular files.
>>
>>Every once in a while I defrag the registry.
>
> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>
> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??

Heather,

NTREGOPT - free for personal use, read the EULA/Disclaimer.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Quote: "Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your
hard disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You
should use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after
installing or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the
registry files and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
(as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
minimum size possible."

Ron

[Heather]

Thank you, kind sir. Being a former WinME user, I am always wary of new
programs (to me)......but I do know that some of my MVP buds recommend
the ERUNT one. I have a ton of stuff I would like to remove from the
registry, but I am not knowledgeable enuf to mess with that.

Cheers...Heather (and yes, top posting is de rigeur on MS ng's, so I
have picked up bad habits, lol)

"Ron Lopshire" <notron@ovbl.org> wrote in message
news:sqXdh.8472$1s6.303@newsread2.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> Heather wrote:
>>
>> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>>
>> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??
>
> Heather,
>
> NTREGOPT - free for personal use, read the EULA/Disclaimer.
>
> http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
>
> Quote: "Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
> system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your
> hard disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You
> should use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after
> installing or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the
> registry files and optimize registry access.
>
> The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
> thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
> modified or deleted keys.
>
> Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
> any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
> (as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
> done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
> minimum size possible."
>
> Ron

[louise]

Heather wrote:
> "louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4tpgk4F15b86lU2@mid.individual.net...
>> I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I uninstall a
>> particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to seek out all references
>> to those particular files.
>>
>> Every once in a while I defrag the registry.
>>
> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>
> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??
>
> Baffled
>
>
I found out about this little free utility through someone I
trust, I can't remember who :-) But I've used it a few
times during the last six months with a mildly noticeable
speed increase. I've only had it about six months.

Go to this link and on the left , about midway down the
page, you see a link for a free registry defrag

http://www.registry-clean.net/index.htm?rd

Louise

[Rube Bumpkin]

louise wrote:
> Heather wrote:
>
>> "louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:4tpgk4F15b86lU2@mid.individual.net...
>>
>>> I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I uninstall a
>>> particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to seek out all references
>>> to those particular files.
>>>
>>> Every once in a while I defrag the registry.
>>>
>> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>>
>> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??
>>
>> Baffled
>>
> I found out about this little free utility through someone I trust, I
> can't remember who :-) But I've used it a few times during the last six
> months with a mildly noticeable speed increase. I've only had it about
> six months.
>
> Go to this link and on the left , about midway down the page, you see a
> link for a free registry defrag
>
> http://www.registry-clean.net/index.htm?rd
>
> Louise

You can also use pagedefrag. It's available from sysinternals (recently
sucked into M$). Go to www.sysinternals.com and you'll get redirected.

It works on the next (or optionally every) reboot and is fast and effective.

RB

[Ron Martell]

isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org wrote:

>"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in
>news:OuxljgWGHHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
>
>> Reinstalls once a year, why, what are you doing to your sys?
>>
>
>
>1) I think it's recommended by many techs and

Only the incompetent ones.


>2) My registry becomes bloated after awhile, and I'm one of these people
>who are constantly questioning strange dll's and exe files.

Registry bloat cannot slow down your computer to any significant
extent. The worst case scenario is that the enlarged registry uses
more RAM thereby resulting in increased use of the paging file.

>
>It's amazing what even the most benign sites can do with their cookies and
>Javascript files. Do a regedit and go through your root and HKLM strings
>and tell me how many strings there are that you would question.

It would take literally days to do this, and to what avail?

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."