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Average user rating:  | |
 Not that good, but not bad either | |
| I have been using this for a while now, I did not install the antivirus as I like trend micro's antivirus.
How ever I have used the other features and must of them can done by other programs for free. You can get ad-aware and spybot for the adware and spyware scaning. You can also get the registry and optimizer from other free programs. One I used and compaired it to this is a free program called easy cleaner. Now the feature I do like that this program has is the ram opimizer, that does help a lot in speeding up my system. It also has a neat tool bar that shows you how much ram and cpu cycles you are using which I also like. That tool bar also shows network usage which is nice. Now the defrag is the worst for this program. I like it run for a week and it never actually got done, guess that is what I get for a 280 gb hard drive. | |
 The AntiVirus is just a trial. | |
| I bought system mechanics 5 pro. After a week I just started my computer today and a window pop out to let me know that the antivirus was disabled, if I wanted to keep it running I would have to pay a "small fee", I click the button and it took me to the Kapersky website where the "small fee" was to pay for the whole program again. Nowhere in the website mentions how to "upgrade" the software. The window also asks you for the User ID and the Serial Number which I entered becuase I thought I bought the full product, I enter it and it didn't work. This software might be good to clean errors, but don't buy it for the antivirus because this software is misleading, and don't buy for the defrag
which I haven't tried but reading previous reviews kind of gives me an idea. | |
| 2005 Version is Buggy | |
| Totally agree with other reviewers regarding the endless process of deframentation...a fully optimized defrag literally takes hours even on my home computer with a 2.8 Ghz processor and 1.0 Gb RAM. The 2005 model's "Maintenance Wizard" is buggy in that the routine that searches for and removes invalid registry entries identifies the entries but, at when the wizard is finished, reports that none were found and provides no opportunity to remove them. However, if you run the "Fix Registry Problems" as a stand-alone routine, it finds and reports invalid entries and lets you delete them. I've tested this by running the Maintenance Wizard and then immediately running the Fix Registry Problems; Wizard finds nothing but the other finds numerous. Iolo's solution to this problem is to uninstall and reinstall. I did that twice but the problem remains. |
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