The Browser Protection here is basically just from IObit’s browser plugin called “Surfing Protection” (see it for Chrome here, for example). For cleaning browser toolbars and plugins, you probably don’t need this, as it’s easy to do in the browser itself. Real-Time Tune Up: Monitors your system resources in real-time.Īpp/Toolbar Cleaner: Like the Hardware Accelerator, this requires you to download a separate piece of software. This requires installing a separate piece of software. Hardware Accelerator: Looks for outdated drivers and gets you new ones. Also useful, but you can do this just in Windows, so not a big deal. Startup Optimizer: Shows you what programs run on startup, and lets you stop them running on startup. Turbo Boost: “Stop unnecessary programs to release RAM and boost your PC.” This shows you system services, non-Windows services and background apps running on your computer, and lets you disable them. The “Speed Up” part of Advanced SystemCare looks like this: You can see that Advanced SystemCare is pretty extensive in what it looks for and the problems it can identify. Here are the categories of registry items Advanced SystemCare found (this is from a 2nd scan I ran):Īnd here’s the result of the disk optimization scan (this can potentially identify and fix issues with your drive): That’s more than were found on my laptop using both AVG TuneUp (see my AVG TuneUp review) and CleanMyPC (see my CleanMyPC review). As you can see in the screenshot above, in its AI scan on my laptop, Advanced SystemCare found 665 registry items that might need to be fixed. I was surprised here not just with the variety of things that Advanced SystemCare checks for, but also the number of things it found. After the scan finished, this was the reported result: This takes quite some time (on my laptop, several minutes) as it goes through all these different items. The difference between these is the AI mode chooses for you what items to scan, and is recommended for new users. Let’s go through each of the main features of the software. When you open Advanced SystemCare for the first time (the version I’m using here is v14), you’ll see this: The current version of Advanced SystemCare, at the time of writing, is 47.8MB. Go to the CNET page on Advanced SystemCare here and click the big green DOWNLOAD NOW button (CNET is a trusted provider of software downloads, and IObit’s own website just takes you to the CNET page when you try to download the free version of Advanced SystemCare). “Does your computer running slow during startup?”)īut regardless of who the people behind IObit are and where they’re located, IObit is definitely a legitimate company that makes real software, else it wouldn’t be one of the biggest companies in its space.
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