System Mechanic 10 is a program designed to keep your PC in tip-top condition. It works by analysing your PC for various problems known to slow system performance ? a staggering fifteen thousand individual problems have already been identified, and periodic tuning update files keep System Mechanic on top of the latest research in this field. The program itself works on three levels; automatically tuning your system in the background, giving you ?one-click? diagnostic and optimisation tools, and individual tweaking tools for technically-minded folk who want to tune up specific things on their PC. For most of us, the first and second options are quick and simple to use.
System Mechanic uses several methods to tune up your PC, such as getting rid of system clutter, defragmenting and optimising your hard drive, defragging your registry etc. It can also help boost your internet connection speeds and other system operations. The diagnostic tools can give you specific information as well as a general system performance rating (poor, fair or good); as someone who regularly uses freeware system tools to keep my PC tuned up, I was most surprised to find my gaming PC rated as ?poor? the first time I ran this. The thing is? does System Mechanic actually manage to do what it claims?
While I don?t have any benchmarking statistics for you, I can tell you that System Mechanic did significantly boost my PC?s performance. This was most noticeable in a marked reduction of boot-up time, but overall certain programs and games that tended to caused a bit of system lag before worked much better. The program can take maybe about an hour to do the first major tune-up (optimising the hard drive is the longest process); after that it either works in the background or tests and tweaks only tend to take a few minutes at most.
I also tested System Mechanic 10 on two different laptops; one quite old, the other almost new. There was a significant system performance boost on both laptops. Perhaps the most surprising result of my testing System Mechanic was the fact that the most dramatic improvement in performance came on the laptop that was brand new ? on the first test it rated the system status as ?fair? and after running, the improvement in performance was very noticeable. That laptop ran Windows 7, which I had been led to believe was in general faster than previous Windows operating systems. The older laptop ran XP, my gaming PC runs Vista 64-bit. I think it?s fair to say that I was able to test System Mechanic 10 on a fairly wide range of system specs and operating systems, and it boosted system performance for each of them.
The main reason I think System Mechanic 10 is worth actually shelling out money for is the fact that its performance has far outstripped freeware optimisation tools that I?ve used (and trusted) for years ? I still believe these tools (mainly Piriform's CCleaner and Auslogics' Disk Defrag in case you wondered) are still very good, but SM10 takes system optimisation to another level.
One thing I can?t do is compare System Mechanic directly to Auslogic?s Boost Speed, which I had a while ago but don?t currently use. While there is a large crossover of similar tools used by both programs however, I think after using both that System Mechanic is more targeted at gamers; it lacks some of the security tools of Boost Speed, but it seems better at optimising your PC for peak performance. Therefore I would recommend Boost Speed for general system maintenance and perhaps as a business PC solution, but System Mechanic 10 is a better choice for gamers. (Not that System Machanic 10 isn't a great tool for business users too, but if you're not a PC gamer, what exactly are you doing on this blog?!?)
You can buy a licence for $49.95 (currently on offer at $39.95), and this entitles you to install System Mechanic 10 on up to 3 different PCs in your home. See the official website for more information.
System Mechanic uses several methods to tune up your PC, such as getting rid of system clutter, defragmenting and optimising your hard drive, defragging your registry etc. It can also help boost your internet connection speeds and other system operations. The diagnostic tools can give you specific information as well as a general system performance rating (poor, fair or good); as someone who regularly uses freeware system tools to keep my PC tuned up, I was most surprised to find my gaming PC rated as ?poor? the first time I ran this. The thing is? does System Mechanic actually manage to do what it claims?
While I don?t have any benchmarking statistics for you, I can tell you that System Mechanic did significantly boost my PC?s performance. This was most noticeable in a marked reduction of boot-up time, but overall certain programs and games that tended to caused a bit of system lag before worked much better. The program can take maybe about an hour to do the first major tune-up (optimising the hard drive is the longest process); after that it either works in the background or tests and tweaks only tend to take a few minutes at most.
I also tested System Mechanic 10 on two different laptops; one quite old, the other almost new. There was a significant system performance boost on both laptops. Perhaps the most surprising result of my testing System Mechanic was the fact that the most dramatic improvement in performance came on the laptop that was brand new ? on the first test it rated the system status as ?fair? and after running, the improvement in performance was very noticeable. That laptop ran Windows 7, which I had been led to believe was in general faster than previous Windows operating systems. The older laptop ran XP, my gaming PC runs Vista 64-bit. I think it?s fair to say that I was able to test System Mechanic 10 on a fairly wide range of system specs and operating systems, and it boosted system performance for each of them.
The main reason I think System Mechanic 10 is worth actually shelling out money for is the fact that its performance has far outstripped freeware optimisation tools that I?ve used (and trusted) for years ? I still believe these tools (mainly Piriform's CCleaner and Auslogics' Disk Defrag in case you wondered) are still very good, but SM10 takes system optimisation to another level.
One thing I can?t do is compare System Mechanic directly to Auslogic?s Boost Speed, which I had a while ago but don?t currently use. While there is a large crossover of similar tools used by both programs however, I think after using both that System Mechanic is more targeted at gamers; it lacks some of the security tools of Boost Speed, but it seems better at optimising your PC for peak performance. Therefore I would recommend Boost Speed for general system maintenance and perhaps as a business PC solution, but System Mechanic 10 is a better choice for gamers. (Not that System Machanic 10 isn't a great tool for business users too, but if you're not a PC gamer, what exactly are you doing on this blog?!?)
You can buy a licence for $49.95 (currently on offer at $39.95), and this entitles you to install System Mechanic 10 on up to 3 different PCs in your home. See the official website for more information.
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