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I have been running a long term test of my own, using two Lenovo Laptops. These are both T500 laptops with identical software. My MIS department installed and “services” my work laptop, and I installed and take care of my personal laptop, kept at home. In both cases, for the first year, I used Advanced system care pro. I had admin rights for both my work and home laptops. In January 2011, MIS felt it was prudent to take away my admin rights, leaving me with power user status. I no longer had the ability to install critical updates at work, and using the enterprise server, am weekly subjected to spam, worms, pfishing emails. The end result is that my work laptop takes 4 times as long to startup as my home laptop, and will crash once a month, on average. My home laptop is still as quick as it was the day I installed advanced care pro. It is not just the programs one installs on a given PC that affect its response time or usability, it is the policies and “care” provided by the administrator that dictate the usefulness of the machine. I have had my work PC “fixed” twice by our IT department since January, whereas I’ve never had to fix my home PC.

I recently upgraded my home laptop to Windows 7, but still use Advanced system care pro. It is on every PC in my home and is worth the price for a yearly subscription for 6 pcs.

It is sad that my MIS department suddenly does not trust me anymore. I’ve had to bring my chrome notebook to work, in order to support my work, as typically, I am locked out of all sites on the internet, even though I shut down my work laptop every night. The usual fix is to reboot, but even then, the site restriction forces me to ask for a specific site to be opened for me to access. The funny part is usb sticks are still allowed, and not protected against, and smart phones with wifi tethering are available, so all of this perceived safety is nonexistant.

I am in the unique position of having two identical laptops that I use. Both have or had the same software installed. In january of this year, my admin rights were removed from my work laptop, a Lenovo T500. As this restriction was not placed on my home laptop, I was able to gage boot up speed and problems on two identical laptops as a function of time. I use a program called Advanced system care 3, which is the paid version. This program does all of those tasks which are no longer needed on Windows 7 pcs. Both of my laptops run Windows 7 professional, and Office 2007. My home laptop is used just as much as my work laptop as I also have a consulting business (I’m a metallurgical engineer). Ever since Advanced system care 3 no longer worked on my work laptop, as I had no admin rights, it takes twice as long for it to boot up as my home T500, which is regularly scanned. Also I have about one crash a month on my work laptop, and none on my home laptop. I think this comparison is not subjective, and refutes your statement that registry cleaners serve no purpose, as I have both the control and experimental pcs running the same software. Recently I updated to advanced system care 4 on my home laptop, and now the difference is even more noticeable. My work laptop is so slow, I have started bring in my CR-48 laptop, in order to get to websites, that take forever to load on my work laptop, if they load at all, thanks to the internet filtering software on the company servers.