I would have to agree with you Sam, I am running Tuneup on my computers and have been for a while now. Spotmau is nice in its abilities to help after things go south, forgotten passwords and such!
Just compare two websites and I could say TuneUp is better. Usually better website, better application
I use tune up, ccleaner, and winaso; but somehow I think winaso cleans out more than the other two. Anyway use all 3 daily. Is it wise to defrag registry on a routine basis??. I have seen that after defragging registry (as opposed to defrag hard disk), some programs show errors.
Tuneup anytime over Spotmau ! But in terms of feature set & effectiveness I'd say win7 manager is the best of the lot available out there. 1> Yamicsoft win7 manager 2> IOLO System Mechanic 3> Totalidea Tweak7 These for me are the top three sys utilities in every way.
I love TuneUp but you're right.. it's starting to become bloated .. It takes soo long for TuneUp to start.. Extremely poor responsiveness.. i think they need to improve on that .. I have the "Theme Extension" and "Defrag Extension" disabled in Services .. i don't use the Theme.. and i have Diskeeper for defragging .. but i understand why they have those extensions.. as it's quite popular among the average user.. as for everything else that TuneUp Provides.. i use it all .. especially "Turbo Mode" which is great for VMware ..
I m not sure how smart is to use tune up, and software like that. When installed, it acts like a master of the system. So other apps become unresponsive to changes made with tune up.