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Registry Tuner scans the registry looking for invalid entries in 12 categories of registry keys. Shortcut Repair analyzes shortcuts to applications on your system, looking for broken shortcuts. It will either repair or delete them, depending on whether it’s able to find new targets for the broken shortcuts. Drive Medic registry cleaner takes an in-depth look at your hard drive in an effort to find errors that could cause system crashes. With System Mechanic Disaster Recovery, you can fix damaged hard drives or partitions, rescue unbootable systems, restore access to files and data and repair your operating system if it has become unstable.

Getting tech help to clean up an infection can wind up costing as much as several hundred dollars for a complicated job. Support can be done over the phone and some services can reach out to your computer over an Internet connection to perform the fix. In worst cases, the machine clean registry can be taken in to a shop or sent to the vendor and the hard drive will need to be wiped and the operating system reformatted and re-installed. It's always a good idea to make regular backups of your data and store it on a separate hard drive or to use an online back up service.

Most of System Mechanic's features are relatively easy to use, with detailed descriptions that clearly explain how to use that specific feature. The software is also supplemented with detailed graphs and reporting options that provide comprehendible information on how various features impact your system. The exception to the software's pc overall ease of use is its diagnostic features, many of which seem to cater to a more tech-savvy audience. Certain features such as the startup manager and process manager use technical jargon that may be unfamiliar to the layperson. Subsequently, these features seem more complex than the rest of the application's tools.

In the course of two weeks, System Mechanic has done 290 repairs / optimizations on my laptop. Normally that would make me a little bit nervous and I'd be expecting the machine to blow up at any moment. It wouldn't be the first time that I've had to do a system restore clean registry after fiddling with a tool that has promised to increase performance. However, as of the moment, System Mechanic has saved me from doing a clean install of Windows. Both my laptop and desktop PCs gained a significant and noticeable boost from using the program.

If your registry cleaner isn’t motoring along at the same speed as it did when you first powered it on, you’d do well to invest in Iolo System Mechanic 12. The multi-faceted utility suite turns back the clock on worn machines by repairing the registry, defragging the hard drive, and monitoring system threats. All in all, Iolo System Mechanic remains a very solid, effective PC tune-up suite that offers informative, easy-to-understand help about the problems that plague computers, but the PCMag.com Editors’ Choice award-winning SlimWare Utilities Slimcleaner scrubbed our test bed with slightly better results (and it doesn’t cost a dime).