Review: iolo System Mechanic

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A few things...

There are few reasons why these cleaner software won't
tells you everything.

1) Registry cleanner can help speedboost a bit, but
almost all of them are well known locations. Telling you
how it's fixed basically it's as same as telling you it's
doing the same job as all other reg cleaner does.

2)The pre-boot thing is probably offline defragging the
page files and registry hive files. Windows has a
stardard API for it, you can achieve the same result with
"pagefrg" from Windows Sysinternals.

3) Memory Optimizer is a Hoax. Period. Don't trust me?
You shouldn't! But if Mark Russinovich said it then you
probably should have listen:

"At best, RAM optimizers have no effect, and at worst,
they seriously degrade performance."

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-
memory-optimization-hoax.html

4) optimizing the internal? It's just old tweak for the
MTU and RWIN values. there are tones of free app on the
internal for it. If you're on Vista you don't even need
those...

To be honest, softwares like System Mechanic is just
nothing but aggregation of bunch of run-of-the-mill
optimization apps. Does it worth $35 per year? For me
it's not. Even for not tech-savvy I still think it's a
little bit too expensive.

Posted by: Samic   Posted on: 01/21/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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