PPC defrag and registry cleanup

[sebo]

has anyone ever heard of this app?

Pocket Mechanic
http://www.pocketgear.com/en_US/html...id=prod5691359

• Scan and repair storage cards (NEW)
• Relocate software and data (NEW)
• Display detailed storage device information
• Analyze and display file fragmentation
• Defragment entire volumes or individual files
• Defragment RAM (NEW)
• Free RAM (NEW)
• Analyze the storage card slack space
• Logical and low-level storage card format
• Recover bad sectors (NEW)
• Registry cleanup
• Storage device benchmark (NEW)
• Find the largest files on your device
• Find the largest folders on your device
• Find and optionally fix invalid shortcuts
• Clean up notification queue duplicates
• Uninstall applications (NEW)
• Find duplicate files and optionally delete them
• View the contents of the Windows CE database volumes

i'm looking for an app that cleans up the registry and removes all orphan files, etc.. but im curious about this app, or if anyone has some suggestions on some other apps?

[sb21878]

Pibe38 posted a "popular programs" thread awhile ago. Check it out.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...ested+programs

[ajm144k]

sk tools is very in depth. ive never heard of defragmenting on a ppc, but sounds interesting id first wanna hear someone else mess with that though. somewhere on ppcgeeks someone put up a file with the full sktools to register it. thats what ill be sticking with since there are so many things it can do (clean system/registry, fully uninstall progs, optimize sys/registry, access/modify registry, etc etc)

[mychal6885]

where is the sktools at?

[sebo]

Originally Posted by mychal6885

where is the sktools at?

http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?sktools/m_feat.html

sktools looks neat but it has all that tweaking stuff and options that i don't really need. i may just try Pocket Mechanic.

looking for something simple and lite app with just maintenance options.

[ajm144k]

i used to use ClearTemp. it basically just cleans up and is much simpler than a lot of apps out there. but its free and it works good.

newest version here: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/get-cleartemp-v1-0.html

[dschoenike]

Originally Posted by sebo

http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?sktools/m_feat.html

sktools looks neat but it has all that tweaking stuff and options that i don't really need. i may just try Pocket Mechanic.

looking for something simple and lite app with just maintenance options.

Have you tried memmaid? Its a pretty straight forward program and easy to use. Sorry if that was a really dumb suggestion, but ya never know dschoenike

[CozBoogie]

I use both SKTools and MemMaid and have found them to be invaluable. If you're gonna have a ppc then you need at least one of them.

late,
Coz

[buzzzqwert]

I believe the only defrag that Pocket Mechanic does in on memory cards, not the device itself.

[shorty82]

SKtools is great, I have used several similar programs and I feel that it is the best. That being said, sktools gives the option to defrag the PPC and the sd card. One time I was feeling brave right after I flashed my phone with a new rom and set everything up... lot of work. I won't make that mistake again!!!! My phoned bricked and I was forced to do a hard reset. luckily i backed it up using sktools so it wasn't a very big deal, but it could have been a real problem.

On another note, I have been told that there is no point to defraging flash drives and other similar storage types that are newer. I don't know how true that is, but there was some reason explained to me that made sense at the time. Maybe someone here knows.