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Question

Computer cleaner

Jun 11, 2013 10:09PM PDT

I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard of :Amigabit PowerBooster. It supposedly will clean up your computer that is slow and also causing a number of different problems...which our computer is doing. It is very slow and does a number of weird things such as - if I click on an email I want to read, the curser moves down to another email and opens it instead, I click on something on the web and it can take 2 - 3 minutes before it does anything. Next time, everything works as it should. Very frustrating! So, was thinking of trying the PowerBooster program which is having a sale right now, but as I never heard of it, I'd like some advice about it. Thank you!

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Re: booster
Jun 11, 2013 10:19PM PDT

I see they offer a 15-day free trial. If you're really desperate you can use that to see if it helps. Be sure to make a system restore point before you run it the registry cleaner part! If it cleans too much, unexpected things can happen.

And don't believe marketing tricks like "This week $29.99 in stead of $59.99". Next week and next month and next year that will be the same.

Kees

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The vast majority of the time
Jun 12, 2013 12:17AM PDT

The vast majority of the time, these programs are little more than scams. The only real benefit they provide is doing a bunch of things that already exist within Windows all from one place. Plenty of times they have registry cleaners or fixers, which generally do the exact opposite of what they claim and make matters worse. If you stop and think about it, AV companies are pretty up front about how they decide something is a virus or malware and how they go about removing them, but you never see anything like that for registry cleaning programs. You never see a clear explanation of why registry entry #1 is selected for removal while registry entry #2 is not. There's also the fact that Microsoft came out with the first registry cleaner, and very quickly pulled it from their website. They haven't bothered ever putting it back up probably going on 20 years later. To me, that says something.

Anyway, your problems seem like they run much deeper than some alleged performance tuning program is going to be able to fix. Others might have different ideas, but if it were my computer I'd probably gather up all the drivers from the computer manufacturer's website and then just reinstall Windows from scratch.

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Booster
Jun 27, 2013 4:54AM PDT

Thanks, think I will skip it. I agree, my problem runs deeper. Think I will get my son-in-law to take a llook.

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windows 7
Jun 13, 2013 11:37PM PDT

Hi I thing your that povlem you can us any computer mant.???

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That might be the solution ...
Jun 13, 2013 11:41PM PDT

for your slow net also!

Kees