Advanced Windows Care V2 Personal

Today there are almost countless applications offering to clean the registry, remove unwanted files, and tune Windows performance, for a price. Advanced Windows Care V2 Personal is free and is a virtual toolkit that the average user can employ with confidence, but the experienced user can exploit to achieve very personal settings.

AWC is simple to install, and when first run will stagger you with its findings. It scans for and removes known spyware, and at the time of writing had more than 30000 items in the spyware database. When first run, this database will be downloaded to your PC. Updates are frequent and available through the Options menu; only the Professional version provides automatic updates.

Tampering with the registry is not recommended unless you know what you are doing, and are prepared to accept the consequences. AWC will comprehensively clean the registry, and will probably show hundreds of items for removal. Many of these are innocuous and simply waste space, but in the interest of good PC housekeeping I believe they should be removed. Others can cause conflicts with installation or running of applications and should be removed. Just as Windows creates restore points that we can revert to after major problems, so can AWC create restore points. You should create these through the Restore Center option before running your Scan if you have any trepidation about using the program.

System Analysis optimises various system settings to make the operating system run faster and more effectively. These will undoubtedly be unintelligible to the majority of users and you should just accept the offer. Experienced users can play with them if they wish.

Startup Scan will inspect everything in your Start Menu\Programs folder and give you the option of declaring Trustworthy those you are happy with, so that they will be ignored in future scans. Rogue startup programs will then be more obvious.

Privacy Sweep and Temporary Files Scan remove traces of your activity on the Internet and on your hard disk that could give personal information to intruders.

Every user should routinely check the Options and Tools menu items to ensure they are getting most value from this application. Startup items can be controlled independently from here, and memory freed up on command.

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Enjoy your computing.                                Terry Bibo.

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