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PC Tune-up 2011 NOT recommended

Nov 11, 2011 4:35AM PST

My poor old Dell Dimension 4600 has been in semi-retirement since 2009. Doesn't do much but serve files for the Macs in our home. I've downloaded the XP Service paks (and other Microsoft auto-updates) and kept the McAfee anti-virus up-to-date, there are a couple of PC-only programs I need and those get run once or twice a month. I've run a couple of other "tune-up" type programs in the last couple of years, and had no particular problems.

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A follow-up (faint praise indeed)
Nov 12, 2011 8:23PM PST

The only good thing I can say about this software is that it appears to have a decent "undo" feature, called "Rescue Center." I ran it, and immediately saw the kind of speed improvement I hoped to get from running the program.... which is to say that the previous state of the machine wasn't all that bad in comparison to what it was after the software did its thing. I uninstalled it (and am hoping that the uninstall really was complete as it says). Bye bye!

Now if only I had back the many hours of lost time wasted on this bitter, unpleasant lesson.

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Re: PC Tune-up 2011 NOT recommended
Nov 13, 2011 4:11PM PST

Hello kls--2008,

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Thanks for the response.
Nov 14, 2011 1:34AM PST

Take a look at the original post. I know I can get a little wordy, so maybe you didn't read as far as the second sentence of the second paragraph which says: " Just ran it with the default settings."

The only other active software was McAfee Anti-Virus (actually, their protection suite, which includes firewall (on) and various other nanny software against internet threats (phishing, etc.) all off.

No other active clean-up or backup software. I somewhere have a copy of Maxtor "Safety Drill," (and a backup made with it) but I haven't bothered running it since the machine went into semi-retirement in 2009.

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Re: Thanks for the response
Nov 14, 2011 6:22PM PST

Hello kls--2008,