PC tune-up software: does it really work?
Posted September 30th, 2009 by admin No Comments »
Round-up We love hardware, and if you ask us how to make an old computer go faster, we’ll recommend a hardware upgrade. But 34 million people opt for a software tune-up in the US alone, estimates Iolo, a company that makes tune-up software.
Iolo’s System Mechanic 9 does a good job of finding services you don’t use
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Can such a large number of people be wrong? We thought we’d take a look at some popular tune-up apps that explicitly claim they will speed up your computer or, when more carefully worded, are “designed” to speed up your computer.
We didn’t set out to see if these applications really could fix registry problems and related crashes because it’s difficult to objectively measure such abilities, especially as every program claimed to be able to fix more than 1000 registry problems, most of which were simply dead links and things like having Windows updates disabled. Handy, perhaps, but not as interesting to us as the performance promises. Read the rest of this entry »
