System Care Professional Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the same program as System Suite 7. Same VCOM programs, VCOM support and utilities. Same add-ons. Same everything except this has more features that the "new" version eliminated - probably to market separately! It just doesn't look as "cool" in the simple blue box under the Vanquest label. If in doubt, just compare the two. Just wanted to let all know that, because this program can be found in electronics stores at a highly discounted price since the packaging and title was changed by Avanquest. I bought this program for fifteen on clearance at Staples. A couple of differences... This version gives you 5 licenses, not 3 that the new marketing line (System Suite 7) offers in the fancy red box. This one also offers a Home Network Setup in which you can network all your home computers to monitor them and the peripherals, such as printers, cameras, etc.
BY THE WAY, A COMMENT FROM ANOTHER OVER AT MY REVIEW OF SYSTEM SUITE 7 MADE ME LOOK AT VISTA COMPATABILITY OF THIS PROGRAM.
IT IS COMPATIBLE, BUT REQUIRES A FREE SOFTWARE UPGRADE. INFO IN OBTAINING THE FREE DOWNLOAD WAS FOUND IN THE BOX I PURCHASED (DOWNLOAD AT THE AVANQUEST WEBSITE).
Now, onto the Review...
I have never been more pleased with a Systems Program, as this one. I was ready to upgrade and if by dumb luck, I hadn't had both in my hand in the store, I never would have noticed that this and SS7 were the same. I bought this one because of the significant price difference and every once in awhile you get lucky.
Installation was a breeze. I removed any conflicting programs, like my other anti-virus (a-vast! is a free program and a very good one that I knew I could download again if I wasn't happy with this one) and my old utilities program before loading this one. It has been running smoothly ever since.
This thing rocks. The Firewall notifies you when another site is attempting to communicate (usually by your action in trying to connect) and if you recognize it, click "yes" and "never ask again" to avoid being bothered in the future about that particular site. (Be careful clicking "No" and "Never ask again," as it may be safe and seeing it again is a chore to correct.) You can also monitor your Firewall to see outgoing data, incoming data, and intrusion attempts. You can also generate emails to yourself to inform you of intrusion attempts, by using notification settings in the program.
The registry cleaner (it also has a registry defragger) found about 50 additional dead registry addresses I removed. The spyware program found a dozen that my Ad-aware program missed.
Automatic updates notify you when new downloads are available for additional virus protection and upgrades.
The Control Panel is easy to navigate and understand. Setting your preferences and choices of items to fix, optimize, change, or whatever needs to be done are simple for anyone intelligent enough to use a computer.
The Hard drive failure warning is a nice feature that supposedly tells you if your hard drive is about to crap out, or on its' last legs. Don't know if it really works, but hoping I won't ever need it to. Though, wish I had it 2 months ago!
Hardware Diagnostics is something everyone should have and this one performs. Again, the ability to run this on a schedule you set up is quite handy. Memory (RAM Sticks) diagnostics can take over an hour or 2 to run, depending on how much you have. Scheduling it while you sleep is great. Wake up and have your results. Of course, you can also run diagnostics of your Motherboard and other items at the same time.
Optimizing my entire system has shaved another 12 seconds off my boot time - and that is after having used my previous program to do the same thing, before installing this one!
Disaster recovery should be a must for everyone. One of the first things I did was make Recovery discs using this program. It comes with a bootable Rescue disc, but I wanted recovery discs on 3.5" Floppys. If you have a major crash, you're screwed if you think your ROM Drive is going to work. Always have a Floppy Drive available! (Probably the only thing it is good for these days).
Auto-save. Nice! My last program didn't do it automatically. Before I knew it, I had a ton of stuff that I had to back-up. No more worries now. It saves everything without me having to do it manually. For those of you without a second hard drive, have one installed as a slave or buy an external... save yourself the heartache in the event of a major meltdown. It happens to the best of us.
Yes, many features but, more importantly, an easy user interface that everyone should be able to master in short time.
For those with horror stories about this program, it is most likely:
A) Used on a system that did not meet minimum requirements.
B) Used on an O.S. that was incompatible.
C) Failure to remove conflicting programs or close all Windows programs that were running before installing.
D) A pirated disc bought off eBay or some other auction site.
I recommend this highly. Nothing better - and that includes comparing it to the over-hyped "Fix-it Utilities 7" that has numerous bugs. Every PC should have something other than what M$oft offers in their O.S. and this is it!


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