How many times have you cursed your fate, when your windows PC, which incidentally is the most widely used desktop computer in the homes, behaves mysteriously and would not allow you to perform your task. How many times have you really liked to clean up your PC and did not do because of boredom or screwing up something. How often have you been frustrated by the myriad tools and utilities that you need to run to keep your beloved PC running fine.
Well I have my PC firewalled and protected with antivirus (AVG free version, thank you guys at Grisoft ). I also periodically keep my computer patched up with latest Windows updates. Inspite of that Iam still not sure that my computer has not been intruded.
Yesterday I came across this freeware from IObit called Advanced WindowsCare Personal.
Advanced WindowsCare v2 Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes an one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. It provides an all-in-one and super convenient solution for PC maintenance and protection
the site says. and most importantly it is a freeware. Decided to use it to find out the status of my PC as well as to maintain it in future.
It is approx a 4 MB download. Installation is just as simple as any other Windows executable. The first time you start it helpfully asks if you want a restore point created. I decided to create so that I do not encounter any nasty surprise.
Here are the screenshots of the first two screens and is self explanatory. The second picture shows what all this software will do in a click. Before you go full steam ahead, update the database.
I thought twice before hitting the Scan button. But there is nothing to fear. All this software does is to identify the problems in the scan and let you know. You can choose to repair the selected components. There is also a provision to select items within the available components. I forgot to add one more thing, it is really fast.
In case you have accidentally done a registry change that you donot want to happen, there is restore center link available which will undo the changes. But I fear that it can only restore one step backward.
So now onto some things that are not so great. I opted for the spyware protection and the software states that it has immunized me against some websites. Iam not sure what it means. As Iam able to visit the site that is immunized and shows me all the not so pleasant pictures. It would be nice if they specify clealry what they mean by immunization.
This software is worth a try.
