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(More customer reviews)Like others I am neither a computer expert or novice, but somewhere in the middle ground, and I have learned the hard way on previous occasions not to have too much faith in registry "cleaners", or performance "boosters" such as this claims to be.
First off, it is relatively inexpensive for some good adjustment options for most levels of experience, and a 3 computer license subscription for a year is certainly appealing at this price. It will be interesting to see if there's a price hike to renew in 12 months.
Secondly, it's very easy to install and operate, and will appeal to people who like (and trust) software to fix all their computer problems as they see them.
Thirdly, it has real time system monitoring once installed, and an easy "one click" clean up. For these reasons I gave it 3 stars (mainly for price).
It immediately scanned my system and reported over 2000 problems, clicking the fix it now button then reported that my PC health was low, and another series of checks and removals moved it to Medium. The Scan result screen is straightforward enough, and if you don't want the complete clean up you can select individual tasks I assume aimed at more computer savvy users, like "Clean Registry," "Defragment your Registry," "Tuneup your Services," "Optimize your System," "Clean your Disks,"and "Shred Your Files".
All sounds good doesn't it?
Well in reality, boot times, PC speed and pretty much every other aspect of the PC I first installed it on didn't really change.
I ended up removing some essential registry file the software did not recognize that were actually legitimate, and overall the impact was negligible.
Add to this that you now also have yet another resource sapping program running constantly in the background.
Bottom line is that it contains some good tune up utilities and did a reasonable job getting rid of some of the junk on my computer, but not that noticeable really.
I would recommend the far superior Iolo System Mechanic 10 instead.
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