System mechanic pro review 2018 professional#

System mechanic pro review 2018 professional#

Long overdue, System Mechanic 6 Professional adds a Drive Medic tool that finds hard disk problems and offers to repair them. While System Mechanic 6 Professional may be superior to venerable competitor Norton SystemWorks 2005 in the number and range of diagnostic tools offered, without documentation, the suite may prove frustrating for the average computer user.ĭisk defragmentation is much faster in this version, and registry optimization is more detailed. The substance lies in Drive Medic, a new, effective tool to test and repair hard drives, and improvements to older tools, such as the Startup Manager, which makes it easy to see exactly what's running on your computer. The glitz lies in the 'improved' and nonconfigurable main screen. There's glitz as well as substance in Iolo System Mechanic 6 Professional, a suite of hard drive utility tools.

(We had to turn them off using another of System Mechanic 6 Professional's features, the Advanced Startup Manager.) These are usually time-consuming tests to run and are not always accurate even after we turned them off, the executables for those tests continued to run in the background, slowing down application loading. We also didn't care for the Dashboard feature that first analyzes, then displays brief results on the speed, the safety, the fitness, the clutter, the updates, the active care, and the overall health and security of your system. It's not that we objected to the surfacing of wizards in the upper-right corner of the window or the way Tips, News, and Updates now take up the bottom third of the screen, but these changes are not configurable they take up precious screen real estate, even if you don't use the wizards or want to be reminded which tools haven't been run lately. However, not all of the interface changes are for the better. Various utilities within System Mechanic 6 Professional are accessed from one of five category buttons on the left: Optimize, Clean, Repair, Protect, and Maintain.