System Mechanic

[Bozz10mm]

Anyone using System Mechanic? I found it for $25 and was wondering if it's any good. Does it improve boot up speed and internet speed as claimed? What's your experience with? Would I be better off with Norton Utilities?

Is it a waste of money?

 

[Kar98]

Why would ADDING a system wide utility speed up the system? You're just introducing a whole 'nother layer of failure and waste system resources. Waste of money, and so is Norton anything. Grab some more RAM instead. That actually helps.

 

[Gmofftarki]

If you want faster boot-up, buy an SSD and just put your operating system on it. It'll cost a tad more than your $25 (I think you can get them for $40-60 in sizes big enough to hold Windows), but it'll actually work.

As to internet speed... that's a complicated issue. System Mechanic won't touch it, but the bottleneck could be just about anywhere. Your CPU, RAM errors, the connection to your house, the connection to the site you want, any of the dozens of connections in between.

Basically, don't waste your money.

 

[texasnurse]

Defragment your system and delete unnecessary files. Prevent unnecessary items from auto startup


Sent with my IPhone with electronics and fuzzy logic...

 

[Kar98]

Not even defragmenting the system drive is necessary anymore. And actually warned against doing so with SSD drives.

 

[Recoil45]

Save your money.


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[El Pistolero]

Download CCleaner and to a scan. Scrutinize some of the items it finds as obsolete and orphaned. Be careful- but its a great alternative to manually combing the registry. You can browse through start up items too. You don't have to keep it monitoring your system but it will do that for you too. Very low process user.

System Mech and a lot of other utils will eat up processor cycles for real-time monitoring- old AV applications will also do that- like Norton and McAfee.