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System Mechanic 6.0n (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)

Don't waste your hard earned money on System Mechanic v6.0n  

Ah, yes, do you remember the good ole days of computing? Remember using the latest Windows 3.0 operating system? Remember the old running joke about "Windows has detected your mouse has moved, reboot now"? Remember all of the bloated, poorly written software, that would bring your computer to a grinding halt? Well, thats exactly what to expect from the latest, greatest, software from www.iolo.com. I have been a registered user of System Mechanic version 5.0 for almost a year. Then, in early November 2005, was alerted to the latest and greatest version yet of System Mechanic, version 6.0n. I have learned from the 'good ole days of computing' to not fall victim to alleged "WonderWare" software. I decided to trial run System Mechanic verion 6.0n, just to see if the claims iolo was making were in fact true. WRONG! Everything they claim this software to be is quite the opposite. It is a bloated, heavily graphical, typographical nightmare. After installing this software, it immediately wants to analyze your computer. Nine, yes, count them, 9 hours later and it was still analyzing my computer. I needed to use my computer, so I decided to cancel the analyze functions. I clicked on the cancel button, and lo and behold, the software became unresponive, and crashed. After rebooting my computer, it became clear what System Mechanic version 6.0n was up while it was "analyzing" my computer. System Mechanic disabled all of my computers security features, and altered the way my computer 'normally' operated. It did all this automatically, without alerting me to such facts, or offering me the choice to make the changes manually. My virus protection was disabled, along with my firewall and spam filter. I had to reinstall or re-enable all the software that System Mechanic version 6.0n deemed undesireable. Figuring that at that point I had little to lose, I tried to use some of the 'features' of the software manually. What I found was astounding, to put it mildly. Typographical errors abound in the software, it looks like a 6 year old child wrote the help'less' files. I was left wondering if iolo has any such thing as "quality control". The graphical interface to the software is nothing but bloat, and serves no real purpose. Many of the options in the "Customise Windows" sub-menu don't work at all. I'm left with the impression that they are just there for appearance. And to top it off, each time you do even the smallest of things, such as cleaning up cache files, you are forced to reboot your computer each time (Can you say Windows 3.0?). Upon attempting to use System Mechanics Netbooster option, the entire program would crash with "Access violations". This effectively caused my computer to crash, which by the way is a Windows XP system. The computer I'm using is not some rag-tag, roll your own system. I have a computer from a major manufactor, and it is only 6 months old. So the problems are not attributed to some old "legacy" computer. Basically this feedback is intended to save anyone else from making the same mistake I did. If you value your computer, and use it as much as I do mine, stay away from SYSTEM MECHANIC VERSION 6.0n! You'll save yourself alot of headaches, time, and MONEY! [alert admin]

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Saturday, November 26 2005 @ 04:31 PM PST

System Mechanic 6.0n (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)

Don't waste your hard earned money on System Mechanic v6.0n  

Ah, yes, do you remember the good ole days of computing? Remember using the latest Windows 3.0 operating system? Remember the old running joke about "Windows has detected your mouse has moved, reboot now"? Remember all of the bloated, poorly written software, that would bring your computer to a grinding halt? Well, thats exactly what to expect from the latest, greatest, software from www.iolo.com. I have been a registered user of System Mechanic version 5.0 for almost a year. Then, in early November 2005, was alerted to the latest and greatest version yet of System Mechanic, version 6.0n. I have learned from the 'good ole days of computing' to not fall victim to alleged "WonderWare" software. I decided to trial run System Mechanic verion 6.0n, just to see if the claims iolo was making were in fact true. WRONG! Everything they claim this software to be is quite the opposite. It is a bloated, heavily graphical, typographical nightmare. After installing this software, it immediately wants to analyze your computer. Nine, yes, count them, 9 hours later and it was still analyzing my computer. I needed to use my computer, so I decided to cancel the analyze functions. I clicked on the cancel button, and lo and behold, the software became unresponive, and crashed. After rebooting my computer, it became clear what System Mechanic version 6.0n was up while it was "analyzing" my computer. System Mechanic disabled all of my computers security features, and altered the way my computer 'normally' operated. It did all this automatically, without alerting me to such facts, or offering me the choice to make the changes manually. My virus protection was disabled, along with my firewall and spam filter. I had to reinstall or re-enable all the software that System Mechanic version 6.0n deemed undesireable. Figuring that at that point I had little to lose, I tried to use some of the 'features' of the software manually. What I found was astounding, to put it mildly. Typographical errors abound in the software, it looks like a 6 year old child wrote the help'less' files. I was left wondering if iolo has any such thing as "quality control". The graphical interface to the software is nothing but bloat, and serves no real purpose. Many of the options in the "Customise Windows" sub-menu don't work at all. I'm left with the impression that they are just there for appearance. And to top it off, each time you do even the smallest of things, such as cleaning up cache files, you are forced to reboot your computer each time (Can you say Windows 3.0?). Upon attempting to use System Mechanics Netbooster option, the entire program would crash with "Access violations". This effectively caused my computer to crash, which by the way is a Windows XP system. The computer I'm using is not some rag-tag, roll your own system. I have a computer from a major manufactor, and it is only 6 months old. So the problems are not attributed to some old "legacy" computer. Basically this feedback is intended to save anyone else from making the same mistake I did. If you value your computer, and use it as much as I do mine, stay away from SYSTEM MECHANIC VERSION 6.0n! You'll save yourself alot of headaches, time, and MONEY! [alert admin]

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Saturday, November 26 2005 @ 04:28 PM PST

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