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Answer» Friend of mine asked if this software was good and clean or bad once on a system. Anyone used this before to comment or heard any reviews on it? Seems innocent at the website, but figured I'd post here to get feedback on this. Friend of mine asked if this software was good and clean or bad once on a system. Anyone used this before to comment or heard any reviews on it? Seems innocent at the website, but figured I'd post here to get feedback on this.Funny you should mention this, I've recently started preparing to actually perform a "experiment" I waxed about several years ago in relation to these sorts of tools. Advanced SYSTEMCARE 6 Free is one of the products I intent to experiment with to see exactly what they do and exactly what they do do. At a fundamental level, I have a very strong opinion on "tune up" suites like this, and it is extremely negative. I've always felt that the Suites are often "all hat and no cattle" that is they work very hard to impress those with reasonable PC competence into thinking they are doing something, but it would take a dedicated individual to prove that they aren't doing anything useful. The amount of "whizbang" and skinning and lack of accurate technical information on the product has always caused me to consider them something of Snake Oil. I hope to prove, with evidence and scientific, REPRODUCIBLE experiments using the software, that much of this software does not have any noticable positive effect and that due to various technical considerations, they can actually have negative consequences. Anecdotal- My Aunt swore by System Mechanic 6 quite a number of years ago. Her Computer had more Memory, and it had a faster CPU than my own. And yet, my computer was noticably faster, despite her use of System Mechanic. She bought into it hook-line and sinker. She didn't recognize that the reason it was slower than mine was becauseshe was using that tool, and instead decided that it meant she had to run the "optimizer" more. I'm looking forward to my tests on some of the products I chose for my experiment. I'm curious to see how products like Advanced SystemCare analyze a clean OS install. Iobit seem to have a fairly good reputation if you like Tune-up programs, (I don't) - this is a bundle of tools - antivirus, realtime malware scanning, and in "expert mode", a number of tools to do things like file shredding, duplicate file finder, undelete, startup manager, Task Manager replacement, etc. PCMag said "With Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 6 you get antivirus protection that's good, but not great. It's definitely better at fending off attacks than at scraping out malware that has already invaded. I wouldn't rely on it to clean up an infested system. On the other hand, if you can get it installed on a clean machine it will do a decent job of keeping you safe. In addition, you get an absolutely amazing assortment of utilities to clean up, tune up, and optimize your PC. For some, that will be reason enough to choose this product." It doesn't really do anything that you can't do with free stuff, and some of the Toolbox items duplicate things already in Windows, but for many people I guess it's easier to pay for an all-in-one solution. but 50 dollars? Really? Review here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419684,00.asp Iobit has stolen pretty much any propietary software they have EVER packaged as their own...i'd personally avoid it. With that being stated most "all-in-one" packages are pure Carp.I personally used it. Whether it's good or bad is something that is dependent on the user. If you are fairly new to using computers or not so technical with it then probably this could help you. This cleans your computer, helps with your settings and do other things that you could manually do. It makes setting up and cleaning your PC AUTOMATIC. However as I have said you can do all of these things manually so the software isn't really that necessary IMO.It's garbage...causes more issues than it portends to fix.I would never touch it, or anything else from iobit. The software they sell looks flashy but is just the usual garbage that promises to solve everything, makes up "science" as to how it works and then sells it at a ridiculous price. I'll never understand things like "Registry boosters" - It's not like the registry is searched linearly where STRAY keys make a big difference. Sure they could make a small difference, but this would be so tiny you could probably measure the number of extra CPU cycles! What really freaks me out is the fact this includes Antivirus. I doubt it's any use for that at all compared to the big players (I wonder if they still steal Malwarebyte's database like they were caught doing) so people will either end up running two antivirus programs at the same time OR running only iobit which I doubt could protect anything properly! As BC said, the only evidence I've heard for these tools is purely anecdotal and I imagine the placebo effect really comes into play here. Interestingly, almost all machines I see with these tools installed are insanely slow. This either points to the fact that these tools simply do not work, or they actually cause the machine to run worse. I personally believe the former in this case. I highly doubt that link is actually free, I imagine it'll be scareware and will yell "Your computer has all these viruses, registry errors, disk errors, buy this software" "We have calculated this will speed up your PC by 104.26%" then get you to buy it. I can't wait to see BC's experiment! I planned on trying this sort of thing (But originally with driver scanners due to a discussion with someone who was convinced they worked wonders...) on my backup laptop, It's sitting out and everything but still not got around to actually doing it! I've never run any of these tools, I mean, I never even bother to clear out temp files or clear cache yet all my Windows machines are almost as fast as they were when they were set up! I struggle to see sometimes how people can mess up their machines so badly, well, probably installing loads of these tools they were told to by ads would be a start!Thanks for all comments on this. Also looking forward to BC's experiment results. I personally don't use any of these system tools that claim to be a 1 tool to cover all. The last tool used was years ago... Norton System Works 2003 and it made the system worse than better with its alterations to the registry which were suppose to optimize. The good thing is that I had GoBack version 3 installed so I could revert back to a restore point prior to the bad changes and be running clean again without error messages etc. Now days if I want to optimize, I manually perform removal of unnecessary services etc, but with computers as powerful as they are today there is no need to make them any more efficient than a clean build is. Will suggest to my friend to avoid using this software for now.Well I did experiment with ASC Free on a clean XP Virtual Machine. I wasn't very impressed Sadly as I note the free version doesn't have a Registry Cleaner, which is probably for the best because I'd be writing unfavourable text on it for the next few hours. Thanks BC for testing that out and showing how bad it is... Had a good laugh at your findings in how unprofessional their software is to determine that a clean build is only "Fair" when "0" issues detected vs Excellent and to later find out on the next screen that its FAIR vs EXCELLENT because a few features were not installed of theirs. A good thorough shared observation blog that hopefully others out there will find as enlightening as it was to when I read it and laughed at the screen shots with comments. Its too bad the registry tool was not available on the free edition. It would have been interesting to see how bad or misleading that was. * My friend found this software on a Facebook Ad that was either on their wall or an advertisement to the side when I asked where she found it. With the many who use Facebook, there are probably many people who have installed this software. Hopefully they will google it first and find your test blog results to know to avoid it vs just blindly installing it since some think that "it came from Facebook ads, and facebook would never advertise anything bad... so it should be ok...RIGHT" Quote from: DaveLembke on July 27, 2013, 03:42:07 PM Had a good laugh at your findings in how unprofessional their software is to determine that a clean build is only "Fair" when "0" issues detected By installing the software the user has already self-identified as unsophisticated and gulliible, and like a 419 scammer, the software provider tries to milk it a bit more... no harm in trying, from their point of view. Quote from: Salmon Trout on July 27, 2013, 04:59:14 PM By installing the software the user has already self-identified as unsophisticated and gulliible, and like a 419 scammer, the software provider tries to milk it a bit more... no harm in trying, from their point of view. Pretty much. Anybody who would install it hasn't done the research anyway. I'd be wary just based on their history of stealing from other companies.It's like the deliberate mis-spellings in phishing emails; if you notice them you're not in their target demographic. They aren't all there to bypass spam filters. Quote It's like the deliberate mis-spellings in phishing emails; if you notice them you're not in their target demographic. They aren't all there to bypass spam filters. LOL |
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