By Cat Ellis
CCleaner might be the biggest name in PC maintenance, but it’s not the only tool that promises to clean up unnecessary files and give your machine a performance boost.
Iolo System Mechanic optimizes your PC by clearing clutter from your hard drive, carrying out basic repairs, cleaning up the registry and carrying out general maintenance tasks on a predetermined schedule.
In addition to the usual disk cleaners, this program can also adjust which programs run at startup, and includes a tool to monitor the changes made to your system when you install new software. This means software can be thoroughly uninstalled afterwards, and any changes made to your system can be reversed.
Its scanner isn’t the fastest around, but it’s a thorough tool that can make a real difference to your PC’s performance.
User experience
If you’ve never used a system cleaner before, you might find System Mechanic less intimidating then CCleaner. It doesn’t offer such an overwhelming array of checkboxes, and it starts scanning automatically without you having to spend time configuring it.
Unfortunately this simplicity comes at the expense of some transparency – temporary files, cookies and broken registry entries are all flagged as ‘issues’, and even selecting ‘View details in wizard’ doesn’t …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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