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Latest Version with NEW Important Features that help you Repair, Tune-up & Optimize your PC!

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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Iolo Technologies
Mfg Part#: SM08E
UPC: 00813279004392
Buy.com Sku: 206656532
Item#: S2G5GQ
Buy.com Sales Rank: 328
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iolo is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our best-selling PC tune-up software.

Most PC slowdowns and problems are caused by faulty settings and fragmentation due to normal PC use. System Mechanic repairs errors so PC's operates smoothly, reliably, and up to 300% faster.

What's new!?

ActiveCare 2.0 keeps your PC running like new - Now smarter, leaner and fully configurable

New ActiveCare 2.0 just got leaner, smarter, and even better at keeping your PC humming along at full speed. And it does this silently in the background, only working when your PC is on but not in use.

ActiveCare 2.0 has new options to give you full control over how and when it runs, and ActiveCare's idle-time processing has been refined to detect battery power, CPU activity, and more, so that it truly does operate without ever interfering.

Defragment and Compact Registry tool - Registry optimization with graphical feedback

Our nextgeneration Defragment and Compact Registry tool now performs a comprehensive analysis of your registry, detects performancedraining bloat, and displays wasted space with instructive, colorcoded graphics.

It then removes the bloat and defragments your registry at the next system startup.

DriveSense - Real-time hard drive status

For expert users, the new DriveSense provides realtime data about the status of hard drives, including drive temperature and other indicators of drive reliability.

More new features and enhancements

New navigational links within the tools simplify moving throughout System Mechanic.

iolo's library of programs and program components has been expanded to target resource-robbing programs unnecessarily clogging your PC's startup process and to detect potentially dangerous software.

System Mechanic now inherits your Windows Vista Aero theme for an integrated look and feel.

Access to Windows Firewall is now integrated into System Mechanic for seamless updates and configurations. And if no firewall protection is detected, System Mechanic will alert and help you to turn on the Windows Firewall.


 
Features
Fix and Speed up your PC...Automatically
Makes your PC run like new
Cleans up system clogging clutter
Eliminates slowdowns, crashes & freezes

 
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Customer Reviews
Value 3.5
Performance 2.5
Ease of Use 4
Overall Satisfaction 3
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
 
4 of 5 Effective system management with a few drawbacks Friday, April 11, 2008
Jordan from Belows Falls, VT  

I enjoyed buying this here for the freebated price of $0, and installed version 7.5 on my system a year ago. By in large it does a reasonable job of keeping my system up and running but it does have a few quirks which are less that ideal. Periodically it takes over and does one of it's useful tasks such as "optimizing system memory" or "optimizing/backing up registry". These tasks eat up vast amounts of CPU time which basically means that unless your system has power to spare it's time to wander away and do something else until it's done making every thing better. It also want to update itself fairly frequently and nags you to do a restart about every other week. The restart process thereafter is fairly slow as it runs the system through a blue screen controlled update of "system hive" and "software hive" and a medium long list of other "hives". Not a HUGE problem, but only if you choose to do that restart when you are not otherwise wanting to use your system. Now at the price of FREE, there's not that much to complain about, however there are some shortcomings that you'll need to deal with. And in the world of system utilities, these really aren't all that bad.
 
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4 of 5 Some help, but not what I hoped. Thursday, April 10, 2008
A Customer from Prescott, AZ  
System Mechanic 8.0 did speed up my desktop somewhat after running every tool provided. However, on my wife's laptop, which is extremely slow, it did very little to speed up it's performance. I say that with the rebates, which bring the cost down to $0.00, you do get what you pay for. Actually, that's to harsh. It's not a bad product, but didn't seem to live up to the claims made for it. It does help somewhat, which is always a good thing.
 
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2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
 
2 of 5 Watch out on this one Thursday, April 10, 2008
A Customer from Sioux City, Iowa  
System Mechanic addresses many areas of your PC, but it is an "invasive" product meaning it will move registry files around causing other programs to have to be reloaded in order to run. Not only did I not notice an improvement in performance, due to other issues System Mechanic caused, I actually had a worse experience with my PC after installing it. I was unable to uninstall this software and had to revert to a previous Windows restore point in order to use my PC again. It looks good on paper, but the reality for me was a very bad experience. Please beware of this product.
 
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4 of 8 customers found this review helpful.
 
3 of 5 Not sure it has helped my system Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A Customer from Omaha, NE  
I am not sure if my system performance has improved with System mechanic
 
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