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Question

PC Utilities

Aug 27, 2011 10:32AM PDT

I have Ccleaner and Glarey utilities installed on my PC. System Mechanic was recommended by Dell so I ran a scan with it after running scans with the others and after fixing problems System Mechanic found a lot more things wrong then Ccleaner and Glarey had. It found 44 more registry problems, 13 security fixable threats, 2 startup issues and my internet config is not optimized for maximum speed. I didn't fix any issues with Sysem Mechanic as I'm sure I want to use it. Has anyone used System Mechanic and how would you rate it with the others?
Thanks for any feedback.

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I have a question.
Aug 28, 2011 7:06AM PDT

What issues with this PC are you solving? If those errors are that bad, should the machine be having dire issues?

As to my ranking of such things, I place them at the bottom of what anyone should be doing to a PC. We don't use such at the office.
Bob

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This just proves to me
Aug 28, 2011 9:13PM PDT

how we should not be relying on utilities like Registry Cleaners/Optimizers and System Optimizers.

On a 'clean' computer, a user can run all of these and get different and often conflicting results. Why is that? Why do different utilities which we are told are the best and are essential for the smooth running of the computer report such differences?

It's scary. Either the computer is so riddled with errors that it should not be usable at all, or someone is not telling us the truth.

Of the three you mention the only one I use is CCleaner. I never use it's registry scanner option and only use it to clean out unwanted temporary files. That way it is quite benign and I trust it.

Mark