I had a friend ask me about 64bit compatibility issues and wanted me to post it here so here goes.
Q: Does System Mechanic Pro support Vista 64bit?
A: Yes and No...
The 64bit issue is only for the Anti-Virus and Firewall portion of System Mechanic Pro. But they keep promising that it is in the works and will be released as soon as they finish making it compatible with 64bit Operating Systems. I am still waiting...
Q: Is System Mechanic Pro and other system maintenance suites dangerous to use?
A: Again Yes and No...
As far as the use of such programs as System Mechanic I can only speak about System Mechanic from Iolo Software, other brands I have seen are junk by comparison and some even fabricate system problems in order to sell you more software or to register their trial version for money. But the use of System Mechanic Pro in the hands of a user who knows what they are doing is a good way to keep parts of your system maintained and others can be optimized and or cleaned. But in the hands of someone who isn't familiar with the way windows operates, especially when it comes to the registry and running processes & services there can be problems. For instance you wouldn't want to just go and delete your registry or windows core files, so similarly don't go fooling around with doing custom editing of such files with tools. The program will have basic maintenance tool for such things and those are fine, but don't go and manually customize these things unless you know what your doing. System Mechanic products are simply a collection of Utilities and Tools, and Pro has bundled Firewall, Anti-Virus software and a couple other things.
I would recommend against auto-running PC maintenance tools, just manually run them when you can choose what and when to fix problems.
But I guess some people have their own personal collection of tools and utilities they prefer, and that's fine too. I just don't trust any other system maintenance suites than Iolo's save one or two.
06-24-2009
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