lazerorca
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Automated computer tuneup
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altrenda
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OK, a link to Tron. It's been discussed here before.
Do you like it, hate it, or what?
What's best about it, what problems does it cause, why is it better than the other scripts and tool discussed here that run various cleanup tools?
Do you run it on everything hoping it fixes whatever is wrong, or are there situations where you use it when other techniques have failed?
Do you like it, hate it, or what?
What's best about it, what problems does it cause, why is it better than the other scripts and tool discussed here that run various cleanup tools?
Do you run it on everything hoping it fixes whatever is wrong, or are there situations where you use it when other techniques have failed?
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I have never used nor will I ever use any program that will "automatically tunes up"a computer (except, of course for Windows 10 Update <grin>)
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I don't see the OP responding back lol
Slaters Kustum Machines
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That's not a tune up script, it's a virus removal script.
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Tron does more than remove malware, it removes bloatware, and repairs some settings. It's a clever bit of scriptwriting and basically throws the kitchen sink at the problem. It is best suited for it's intended audience, which is end users and hobbyists.
My main complaint is that it takes too long in a professional environment.
From the Instructions." Depending how badly the system is infected, it could take anywhere from 3 to 10 hours to run. I've personally observed times between 4-8 hours, and one user reported a run time of 30 hours. Basically set it and forget it."
The times I've used it, It's taken over 4 hours and I still had to do some manual work to finish it up. A skilled tech should be able to accomplish the same thing in less time.
Malware removal is not a big part of my business; maybe if I had 6 or 8 machines on the bench that needed cleaning and I could afford to wait for them to be done it would make sense for me, but I have found other ways that are more efficient for me.
My main complaint is that it takes too long in a professional environment.
From the Instructions." Depending how badly the system is infected, it could take anywhere from 3 to 10 hours to run. I've personally observed times between 4-8 hours, and one user reported a run time of 30 hours. Basically set it and forget it."
The times I've used it, It's taken over 4 hours and I still had to do some manual work to finish it up. A skilled tech should be able to accomplish the same thing in less time.
Malware removal is not a big part of my business; maybe if I had 6 or 8 machines on the bench that needed cleaning and I could afford to wait for them to be done it would make sense for me, but I have found other ways that are more efficient for me.
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It is indeed a clever bit of writing and that is probably it's biggest problem; you'd need to be a clever batch file coder if you wanted to modify it.
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I use TechWARU. Lots of automation and nice reports. Not perfect and on some machines you still have to run some manual repair tools but you can fire this one off and not forget a step.
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Ever tried Tron? any thoughts on similarities/differences?
lazerorca
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Just thought I'd throw that one out there. Didn't know if it was widely known or not...
altrenda
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Since this site is mainly for people who fix computers and such for money, there are few things that at least a couple of members haven't heard about, but it's always good to be exposed to something new.
But instead of just dropping a blind link, how about a "I have used X and it works for me, anyone else use it?" or " I have read about this but not tried it, does anyone have any experience with it?"
much more useful contributions to the forum.
But instead of just dropping a blind link, how about a "I have used X and it works for me, anyone else use it?" or " I have read about this but not tried it, does anyone have any experience with it?"
much more useful contributions to the forum.
lazerorca
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Sorry about that... But yes, I have used this script. Like it has been mentioned already, I still have to go through afterwards with my own set of stuff that I like to use.
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I actually didn't know about Tron until this thread. I'm picking it apart right now. The author is amazing. He writes good code and documents it well. Like so many powerful technician tools it really requires some study before letting it run in full automatic mode. I'm doing an image right now on a Win 7 machine I'm going to use for testing TRON. I wanted to be able to fully recover in case TRON does something unexpected.
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I have been using it for quite a while... early on it seemed to have some issues. Couldn't seem to get Stinger to run like it was supposed to do. They just added win 10 support recently, so I would suspect that it might be buggy on the Win 10 end of things.
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He has an awesome script called java_nuker that can be found with Google. It removes all versions of Java quite thoroughly. I use it regularly at my FTJ, where specific Java versions are very important.
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A Technibble member did a big write up about it early last year: https://www.technibble.com/free-precious-time-tron-script/
Its a neat little script.
Its a neat little script.
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Its fairly decent for just before bed. Set it and forget it till the morning.
Also seen a lot of development on GUIs to customise what it does.
Also seen a lot of development on GUIs to customise what it does.
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I did exactly this last night. Just before bed I ran Tron in full automatic mode on my old Windows 7 test bed machine. The machine has been used as a dev platform with multiple versions of Visual Studio installed. Java dev machine. Virus Scanning machine. Disk testing machine. Network sniffer machine. In other words, since it was installed 5 years ago this machine has had a slew of things done to it.
Tron ran for about 7 hours. It found absolutely zero malware which is to be expected since I scan it regularly for use as a customer hard drive scanner. But Tron did find nearly 10GB of useless stuff to delete. And the machine runs fine this morning.
I reviewed the log files and the only things that I would change is the way it automatically reset the machine's power profile and the pagefile settings. But that's not a serious thing.
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Based on the posts, I should modify my blanket comment. I agree that the OP should have posted more details about the program/script. I still would be very nervous about trusting anything that automatically does all the things it does. Certainly not without some rigorous testing (which I plan to do).
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I love and hate this program....when I first used it, I didn't read the documentation...bad move. It deleted the Temp directory where I had a ton of files. Of course, this is my fault. I suggest you use this, but make sure you read the documentation and customize it to your needs.
I personally remove the TempClean part of the script (I manually clean the Temp directories to speed up virus scan parts) and run it to bypass the defrag stage (this takes way too long and running auslogics defrag from my USB stick is way faster). This script saves a lot of time, but I can see where it's not for everyone.
I personally remove the TempClean part of the script (I manually clean the Temp directories to speed up virus scan parts) and run it to bypass the defrag stage (this takes way too long and running auslogics defrag from my USB stick is way faster). This script saves a lot of time, but I can see where it's not for everyone.
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