System Mechanic Professional 8.5.6.15

2.5 out of 5 stars 2.5 (187 votes)

(June 1, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Shareware; $69.95 / 26,565 downloads

System Mechanic is a nice set of tools that will help you with regular maintenance of your system. Tools include disk clean up, fix broken shortcuts, remove duplicate files, securely delete files, clean registry, safe installer, remove invalid installed info, startup manager, Internet privacy (deletes temporary Internet files and history), and Internet speed up which tweaks your registry settings for you so you get faster connection speeds.

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    Crazy John

    Reviewing 8.5.6.14 (May 25, 2009)

    Tried it for 2 days then bought licence.
    After paying out for a licence the one sent from Iolo doesn't work!
    Not recommended

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    craigun

    Reviewing 8.5.6.14 (May 20, 2009)

    This will slow your system down. It wants to reboot your system ALL the time! Very annoying.

  3. 1 out of 5 stars
    Richardky

    Reviewing 8.5.5.5 (Mar 25, 2009)

    useful back in 98 but its a thing of the past , this is just bloated up junk , they added a bunch of crap to keep a hefty price tag on it in hope that noobs will buy

    i hope they read the reviews written here by all as to get the point its time to clean it up drop the price or can it ..

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    robmanic44

    Reviewing 8.5.5.5 (Mar 25, 2009)

    As a very astute observer once stated on BN, these programs are doing things to your system, but are they things you want done?

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    roymccoy

    Reviewing 8.5.5.5 (Mar 25, 2009)

    I had same problems like Arke, and exactly like danho001 says.
    I ran the SM's one-click system cleanup, clicked "yes" to reboot, and then on startup nothing happened but getting a blinking marker in upper left corner on a black screen - and that's it! Could not even get in to safe mode!
    No Windows, no text, no blue screen, no startup beep... Nothing! Just the blinking marker!

    I tried booting from the original Windows XP cd just to get the message that a system repair was not possible, only a complete install that would delete all files on partition. SM deleted my system restore points too!
    Also tried Active's boot disk that told me I had a critical system boot error.

    So I had to reinstall XP, then I used File Scavenger to save what's left of my files to an eksternal drive, which took a good 20 hours but restored amazingly 98% of the 80Gb I had!

    I wrote an email to Iolo and got an totally bogus automated answer, telling me I probably had hardware problems and that I should contact the Compaq support...

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