When it come to System Mechanic's software, the pro version is a must.
The reason I get to say this is: My machine(HP Pavilion) is so lagging at cold boot time that it will, eventually, one day, not boot at all, as of right now. Do not have such software right now and, am aching badly at getting that Pro software a.s.a.p.
The O.S. will not provide enough tools to do such intense maintenance without the intervention of an outside techie. This is beyond HDD filing clutter and disorganisation of the currently installed programs. Windows does not have a proper registry, remover-adder of installation keys. Without the help of these awesome utility programs, you have to regedit every single key at a time, and remove the ones that has no reference to any programs installed on your HDD at this current time. Manually. This is, seriously bothersome and time waster to its worse case scenario. Plus, registry defragging and optimizing does not exist to Windows features(from '98, Me, 2000, XP, XP MCE, Vista and, 7). Even on Dos, it never existed. These performance booster programs are, literally, new and, will do a marvel of a good job, doing just that(manual maintenance) in no time flat.
Obviously, that businessman of a techie, is stopping you from getting yourself a newer machine that will refresh your own mind as to where and when you are in this current world of ours. So, yes, you definitely need a better performing machine no matter the O.S. installed onto its totally new HDD(Win. 7 HPE-SP1 is, normally, ready to unpack itself upon first power on-cold boot and install itself right-a-way).
In other words, never mind what that super rich businessman says, your issue is beyond a mere system maintenance problem that has to be quick fixed every month or so. XP's days are totally numbered by its maker: Microsoft. And, will no longer support this aging O.S. ever again(that is common knowledge of 2 years ago).
Lets hope now, that you will consider everything I just wrote here and, will consider saving monies for a much needed, newer PC system.
