Software Recommendations Data Recovery/Registry Cleaner

I have had limited success with an application called R-Studio NTFS, there is a FAT version aswell. You can download a trial, just google R studio. There are quite a few recovery suites out there, just do an extensive google search on file recovery and data recovery, you're bound to find the best one. Don't choose the windows based(plastic) recovery software, like recover my files etc. It's just bloatware, really does nothing to recover lost files. You need something that scans your harddsik regardless of file system and partitions. R Studio is very slow, as it scans your entire hard disk, if you don't mind waiting it could be real helpfull. Just remember, never restore files on the same hard disk where it was lost, always use a second hard disk or external drive.

The best all around registry cleaner all in one tweaking utility I can recommend is TuneUp Utilities 2006. There is an application in the package called "one click maintenance". You set it to run on a specified schedule, and it does an all around fix of your pc(including cleaning the registry), daily or weekly. Whatever you prefer. I haven't had any problems with it so far. The best utility in TuneUp is the start up manager. Very cool indeed. Helps to speed up your boot time, by reducing applications that start with windows.
Hope I was helpfull. Cheers
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A couple that I've used On Track Pro is the best available it works fast and recovers everything that was on a drive but the down side is it's expensive.

There are a couple of others like XWays Davory a
trial version is available at

http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/

and if you know HEX the Win Hex tool is marvelous, it's on the same page but the Davory trial will only recover the first 200 K of any file.

There is also a new Product called Get Data available from

http://www.getdata.com/

I haven't actually used this yet so I'm not sure how well it actually works but the people behind it are supposed to come from the AU Federal Police Computer Crime Division and have incorporated their own software recovery into these programs.

There is Stellar Phoenix available at

http://www.stellarinfo.com/

Again I haven't used this program but one other TR Peer has raved about how well it works.

Col