Let's dispense with the noise level products and then I will tell you why I think the Winphetamine product (or whatever they call it) is probably not going anywhere. The jury is still out on that until they provide legitimate, independent analyses including the conditions under which they achieve any performance increases.
Burn It!
Ensures that all of the built-in safety features of Windows don't have any effect. Once you use this utility to delete a file, there is no way it can ever be recovered. This is an extremely dangerous product that best remain in the box, forever -- better yet, burn it! You can maintain recovery and protect files from unwanted perusal using uncrackable encryption software available for free from a gillion different sources. Most utility packages (e.g., WinZip) contain password protection. A product such as this would take the average programmer about two weeks to complete. Selling or transferring your computer? Format it!
Winkrypt
Again, there are gillions of programs that provide this functionality. It essentially encrypts the file (freeware available from serveral souces and you can buy the tools to right your own Winkrypt and market it yourself) so you end up with an e-mail attachment. WinZip and the other shareware tools already provide this. Because their tool does not decode certain e-mail formats, they even provide a link to the WinZip tool. Winkrypt is really a farcical product.
I gurantee that you can go into a bookstore and pull a book right off the shelf that will tell you how to encrypt and decrypt files or how to really, really erase files from your system. Now for Winphetamine:
Winphetamine
Winphetamine is a big question mark. They already admit that when speeding up hard-drive access, the lions' share of the gains result in disabling a critical feature of Windows 95, to wit, multitasking. They haven't provided any useful information aside from the contradictory claims of the originator and Syncronys itself. Cheezy software tricks parading as bona fide products whilst wreaking untold havok to the security, reliability and normal operating parameters of your computer aren't going to make it past square one.
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