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  Reviewed by: equuleus

  04-15-2008

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: Software is ok have used prior versions for years

  Weaknesses: Company management is unethical

  Overall Evaluation: Purchased an upgrade through a rebate offer and they denied my rebate. They are using a rebate scam to sell thier product. Unethical business practices should be rewarded with no sales and ver bad reviews regardless of what is being sold. The world needs ethics not more crooks.

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  Reviewed by: mainevillewayne

  11-22-2007

  Duration of ownership: 2 Years

  Strengths: A Lot to be seen what it can do... Do it a little at a time there is so much it can do..40 you chose to use check up programs to look for sometihng wrong

  Weaknesses: To tempting to use all 40 the operting system check up and protecting operations.

  Overall Evaluation: I have had it for 2 years now, It is the computer new bee but be ware of using the auto fix it opetion in all the fix ing functions it has to offer to you It does a ton of things to say the least I have had other repair programs in my 15 years wiith computers and tthis one is one I will KEEP . Don't expect this or any program to do the work of a PC shop if you are haveing trouble already.. And do not click all 40 check protect your system lines as soon as you get it and DO NOT click any thing to do it automaticly or IT WILL SLOW your system down on boot up. It even E mails you if you to let you know how your boot scan if somtthing was found in need of your looking into And DO NOT have it do it next time automaticly cause some of the fixes need a re boot and then you will have a little trouble

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  Reviewed by: granbear

  11-21-2007

  Duration of ownership: 2 Years

  Strengths: Performs some optimization, but not enough to put up with the problems.

  Weaknesses: Too many to list. Most annoying for me: 1) a total system crash after one recent update of the program, 2) having to reenter license information almost every time the program updates, 3) not being able to enter my license information after the most recent update, because the program declared my license information invalid even though it is less than one year old, and 4) tech support is lame and doesn't appear to read the explanations: I don't need to be told to read an online help page when I tell them I've already followed those suggestions.

  Overall Evaluation: This program is not worth the money. Version 6 worked fine and caused no problems, but when I upgraded to version 7, I began having so many problems, I have had to delete and reinstall the program at least 3 times. The program is not ready for prime time. My recommendation: DO NOT BUY it.

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  Reviewed by: davedogman

  10-23-2007

  Duration of ownership: 2 Years

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: I advise anyone AGAINST buying this product. I have v6 Pro and as soon as they came out with a new version, upgrades STOPPED. I don't mean upgrades to the program but also spyware and anti-virus updates. What good is an anti-spyware program if it isn't updated?

  Overall Evaluation: A memory pig that does nothing that free programs don't do better. No updates once next version comes out.

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  Reviewed by: richolenik

  10-02-2007

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Not a blessed thing that I could find.

  Weaknesses: Almost everything! It messed over too many legitimate programs and slowed the computer down to a standstill by tying up valuable resources. Tech support is rotten, blaming the trouble on other programs and not their own but once I removed it, voilâ, everything speeded up!

  Overall Evaluation: I would not recommend this to anyone - in fact I'd warn them against trying it even it it was freeware. It seems that PC World is unable to find the time to actually adequately test software that it recommends. Makes one wonder if any of PC World's recommendations are valid.

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  Reviewed by: Jeanneeber

  09-11-2007

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: ABSOLUTELY NONE!! Whoever rated this was in a coma!!

  Weaknesses: everything about this program is a problem and tech support will keep you coming and going for months-My mission is to stop their sales of this product-it is THAT bad!! Not only will you throw your money away on it-but you'll spend a great deal more trying to correct what it screwed up!!DON'T BUY IT-or even try it!! You'll be so sorry!

  Overall Evaluation: It will find hundreds of problems on your computer!! It has a lovely element called "safety net" where you can reverse changes-Only it's odometer ALWAYS keeps track of NOTHING!! Made 500 changes to my registry-next time I ran it it said. "Run Registry optimizer"-NEVER BEEN RUN-if you try to reverse the 500 changes to your registry-it says"there are no actions to undo" What about those 500+ changes you just made to my registry?? huh??? You would have better results throwing your PC off of a tall building and "hoping" for a good result!! THAT is how bad this program is!!!

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