| Value |  3.5 | | Performance |  2.5 | | Ease of Use |  4 | | Overall Satisfaction |  3 |
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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. Was this review helpful?  
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. Was 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. Was this review helpful?
4 of 7 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 Was this review helpful?
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