| IOLO System Mechanic 6 Review |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Wednesday, 16 November 2005 | |
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Not like ver 5.0, when you fire up System Mechanic 6 it will perform an analysis of your system and indicate which areas need to be addressed and their relative fitness along with your systems overall relative fitness and security.
The analytical engine is looking nice and working well. But it takes around 3 minutes to complete with my P IV, 1 GB/RAM System.
1. PC TotalCare First I would like to clean up my system using the utility named PC CleanUp. I have given two options to choose, Quick Clean and Deep Clean. It's running well upto 26%. After that there is no further processing. I tried the same process again by disconnecting the internet. Yes, it's working now. So I need to manually clean up Internet temporary folders and Cookies if my system is connected, while using system mechanic. Too Bad! The next example is of the fitness of my system. Looking at it you'd think that my drive had bad sectors or other issues but be assured, it doesn't. Sys. Mech. wants to look at a log of Scandisk to be assured of my drives health but since there isn't a current one it assumes that the drive has issues and tells me there are. How do I know that my drive is good? Well, this is a fresh install of windows after a full format and I have checked the disk with Scandisk during boot-time defrags via Diskeeper and there were zero bad sectors. If you're a power user you won't bother with the analyzer anyways but a normal user will find things like I've outlined above to be rather distressing because it paints an overall negative portrait of your systems health.
I'd also like to see the Scandisk issue resolved since because it can't run a disk scan on system disks in use it assumes they have errors and creates an alert where none exists. The disk defragmentation wizard was going to take 15 hours to defrag my C drive and the Speed optimizer always freezes at 60% completion. Comparing to DiskKeeper it's useless. There needs to be alot patched with this program before it can be a usable tool in my opinion.
As to the more detailed manual settings for System Mechanic 6 they are essentially the same as System Mechanic 5 so I won't waste the space going over them again as you can get a better look here as the major changes are in the automated functions and those are either a series of wizards or one overall wizard called PC Total Care which allows you to perform all the wizard functions in one shot. Overall if you are a PC beginner and you have System Mechanic 5 I would have no problem endorsing an upgrade to 6, if you're a power user and know the ins and outs of what's going on with your PC and you have System Mechanic 5 I'd stay stick with it unless you're looking to move up to Pro from basic then you'll have to go with 6 since it's the current version.
As to Professional versus Basic, if you have an anti-virus product you already have money invested in but no firewall and are thinking about Pro for it's firewall be forewarned: you'll either have to remove your existing A-V software or forget the firewall since the a-v engine and the firewall engine are one and the same. You cannot install the firewall on a system with another brand of a-v software on it. System Mechanic Functions: Eliminate spyware So I highly recommend to use different products for different purposes... Eliminate spyware - WebRoot SpySweeper Recommended: No Price Range: Rs.4000 - Rs.5000 |
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| Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 November 2005 ) |
System mechanic is a set of Hardware tools for personal computer, as a single package. The latest version 6.0 is released as basic(without firewall) and professional(with firewall attached).
The Main menu contains the following utilities:
Personally I'd like to see the system fitness tied into the internet cache and cookies, so that if there are spyware files then they can be flushed along with having the spyware removed and see them removed from the clutter test. So that these generally benign files can be removed as a source of alarm and when the clutter IS addressed by the user they won't be unknowingly dumping all their cached web content and cookies, making it necessary to re-enter all their site info in password protected sites such as forums, image hosts and others plus generally slowing their surfing.
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