Have you ever come across a state of affairs when things work more or less smoothly, as far as computers are concerned.

In search of that ideal software combination, I spent days and trillions of bytes and consumed bandwidth, to finally come a choice.

My PC runs with the following software and I am satisfied by the performance.

For maintaining my system slim and trim I use Ace Utilities. You will be amazed at the speed and efficiency of this little software has. Its Giant competition from likes of Symantec corporation charging double the price does less than half the job.

For antivirus I strongly recommend using AVG Antivirus. Similar to Ace utilities, Grisoft is smaller, faster and more effective than the giants like Norton AV and McAfee. It does not slow down the computer as much as the other two.

Defragmentation is best done by Diskeeper. Very intelligent and efficient software. Simple to use and The difference is instantly noticeable in boot time, application load time and swap time.

Well friends, the above are my suggestions, since I have benefited, I thought I did share the idea with you. It is not against the Giants like Microsoft or Symantec, but its against paying too much money for too little in return. Not fair. What you say?

Cheers,
Hemant