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.
Get it from http://www.iobit.com/
Enjoy
your computing.
Terry
Bibo.
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