do you really feel that you need both anti-virus applications installed ?
It depends who's using the pc, how competent they are and what sort of sites they visit and applications they are using on it. I appreciate zone-alarm is as much a firewall as an anti-virus app.
Personally I use Avast, disable the annoying spoken information updates and rely on the firewall in my router and to do the work. I occasionally install ad-aware and and spybot search & destroy to do a scan and then delete anything dodgy they find. After an install 18 months ago as much as they found was a few dodgy tracking cookies.
The latest version of avast (free) has excellent anti-malware website blocking.
I've no problems with AVG exactly but I've found zone-alarm is a whole can of worms all to itself on every machine I've worked on. It's barely tolerable IMO.
As said, it all depends what you do with the pc and who's using it but really for a single competent user it does seem like overkill. I'd at least recommend switching from AVG to Avast. I think you'll prefer it (once you disable sounds).
Other than that I agree with plasticjock as the way to go.
I advise caution with regard to anything which is indiscriminitely purging your registry of 'unnecessary' entries. That's another can of worms which pretty much guarantees your PC a trip to the IT specialist or a re-introduction to the system wipe/recovery disk. Sorry to disagree here with dx100uk whose advise I generally concur with 100%, it's a difference of professional opinion which I'm sure he'll agree I'm entitled to. I've yet to come across any of these system mechanic / registry doctor type apps which does more good than ultimate harm so I've become very cycnical about them.
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