Fix It 5.0

List Price: $29.99

Features:

• Complete package of utilities to optimize your system's performance
• Finds and prevents problems before they occur, and provides easy, schedulable maintenance
• DiskCleaner and DiskFixer regain wasted disk space and repair hard disk problems
• FixWizards provide simple, one-step processes to handle all regular maintenance tasks
• VirusScanner Pro helps protect your PC from a wide range of viruses

Customer Reviews:

Unpleasant Experience. [Posted on 2004-08-03]
I purchased this product based on the five star reviews. I have WIN XP. After installation and the required re-start I experienced a total lock up or freeze. I was unable to do anything in windows. After several start ups in the save mode I was finally able to re-enter windows and uninstall the offending software. After contacting the manufacturer I was told to uninstall the McAfee antivirus software because it is not compatible. I just renewed McAfee, besides I was not willling to trade a well functioning software that comes preinstalled by major manufacturers for something that lost my trust. I am out of my money because I purchased from a private source. I paid $33.34 for nothing. I call this a bad experience.

great product [Posted on 2004-08-25]
great product- works well for keeping your computer working in tip top shape

Mixed Results [Posted on 2004-09-02]
This product suite has a number of software tools, some very good and at least one that is really bad. The Registry editor is supposed to be excellent. However, I purchased this Suite to try to 'clean' a virus infested PC. The Virus checker/remover is by a company called Trend Micro, and the version they include in this package is essentially useless. On running it, it provide a list of 19 viruses but was unable to eliminate any of them. I don't know why, as I was able to manually delete all but one in which access was denied by Windows. However, manual deletion of virus files must be accompanied by registry changes and I found little help for this at the Trend Micro site; most of the information seemed to be outdated or wrong for the viruses in question and some seemed to be misidentified. I later obtained a free product, Free-AV, that succeeded where this product failed utterly.

great product for novices [Posted on 2004-10-03]
I'm extremely happy with this product and intially bought it as a registry cleaner. I bought this product soon after I bought a new PC. My old PC got slower and slower overtime and I wanted to keep the new PC in tip-top shape. My kids do a lot of downloading and who knows what else. This product has a great registry cleaner for novices. I'm terrified at the thought of changing the computer registry but this software goes through the registry and rates each problem it finds: green light--ok to delete, yellow light--delete with caution, red light--extreme caution. I only change the green light entries which is the default. The first time I ran it, it deleted over 400 entries with no ill effects.
As an added bonus it came with PC-cillin, a very good anti-virus software program. This anti-virus software picked up a trojan on my computer which several other anti-virus software programs missed. PC-Cillin is made by Trend Micro. It also comes with a host of diagnostic tools, disk utilities, and system restore functions, registry defrag, system backup utilities. For the novice you can just use the 'all in one' wizard and it will run the utilities for you (only green light changes will be made). The 'all in one' wizard does take several hours to run however. I would buy this product again. (...) Also, VCOM responded quickly the one time I had a question on how to delete a trojan. This product does not deal with spyware. I still run Spybot, AD-aware, and Spyware Blaster to deal with spyware.

Fix-it Utilities [Posted on 2004-10-21]
First off,the registry clean-up does NOT quite deliver what is expected from it.It classifies the problem registry entries with green,yellow,and red colors and prompts you to be cautious about deleting yellow and red ones, but actually providing no information or whatsoever on how to go about removing those entries.You basically end up leaving those problems untouched.Secondly, XP/2000 doesnot require registry defragmantation by default.So it renders that feature useless.Most importantly,I don't know if it was Fix-it Wizards or the pagefile defragmenter.I got my CPU locked up at 100% so I had to restore my computer to the earlier saved restore point.Considering I purchased the laptop pretty recently and it was supposed to be a top-notch one the problem I experienced was not pleasing at all.

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