(And these are all tagged with an “Advanced” icon, so you’ll only do that once or twice.) And it doesn’t hassle you with annoying nag screens, beyond an “Upgrade” dialog displayed if you choose a feature that is only available in the commercial version. If you’d rather not part with any cash, though, the free version delivers plenty of useful functionality.

If that sounds more appealing then you can always download the System Mechanic trial as an alternative. Unsurprisingly, the full version of System Mechanic has many more features: boot-time defragmentation, special software speedup options, an Internet connection tweaker, a module to locate and install updated drivers, disaster recovery tools, the System Troubleshooter to fix common Windows problems, security tools, in-depth Windows startup optimisation, a Windows tweaking tool, and more. Or launching PC TotalCare will run every tool in just a few clicks. System Mechanic’s All-in-One wizards mean that you could, say, run all the cleanup tools automatically. A duplicate file finder may help you free up more drive space the Advanced Uninstaller thoroughly removes installed applications and the System Change Tracker allows you to take snapshots of your system state, and compare them, so for instance you can see the changes made by an application you’ve just installed.Īnd perhaps most conveniently, you don’t have to spend forever exploring each tool in turn. You get options to back up and restore the Registry, for example, or find and repair broken shortcuts.

There are also a few features that you won’t necessarily find in all the competition. And the hard drive cleanup tools freed up noticeably more drive space than CCleaner in our tests (although it does also lose a few marks by not providing specific details of what it wants to delete). The “Optimize Windows Startup” doesn’t leave you to decide which startup programs can be removed, for instance, it makes specific recommendations. But these do have a little more power than most similar tools.

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