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Five tools to keep Windows systems in top shape

Surely a simple list would have taken up five lines ? There's nothing new here at all !!

If you want to avoid the hassle of the all the page loads to go through the slide show, just go to the blog. The link is labelled "check out this entry in our Five Apps blog", there you can read it all on one page.

TR is lost

Try Major Geeks

To click thru all the links, icons and ...... wait for it....WHATEVER!
I find it a real pain in all articles in this format.

Change to something a user may like, not what some web designer thought was all so ZOOMY!!!!!!!

It's widely known CCCleaner makes you feel better but doesn't improve performance. And Belarc Advisor doesn't even fit your criteria in the title of the article.

More useful: MalwareBytes. This thing finds malware the big commercial stuff doesn't find. How about giving them their props?

hi - are there links to get these tools?? such as the defragger? or HDD scan
tks
Jon

Going through all these clicks is just wrong. And sometimes when clicking to get to some info or downloads, it's not even there, just ads. If this keeps up I am gone because this is a waste of my time. I set aside certain times of the day just to browse articles and things like this is just a complete waste. Now, is anybody really listening.

I like some of these but how or where do you access them to download for a try?

I never throw my 2 cents in however, I agree with the earlier comments. This may affect your readers who are looking for articles that are meaningful and have content. The format in which we have to click through an article is absurd. You need to listen to your audience or you will lose them. But then again, you probably don't care because you are getting the "clicks" for some sort of quota.

And one more piece of advice... people in our community talk.

I agree with rwbyshe@. I skip almost all of your articles because I just don't have the time to wade through pretty front end window dressing to find content. You can certainly keep your current format but you should add a short paragraph up front containing the "meat" of the article along with any relevant links along with a link to your current format. I

Friends no harm done in reiterating what had been said earlier, just in case it had been forgotten, but frankly attimes its annoying to surf through the pages to see a content repeated with a different heading. Editors, i think you need to consider you inputs. We still love Tech republic...

Waste no more time - This article was a FAIL

really worthless

Defragmentation is completely outdated. New HD technology makes this useless. Forget it.

Why not listing the best tools? There are better tools out there for these functions.