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Total PC Health Review

February 2nd, 2011

OK, I started using this product a couple weeks back. Initially i was a bit sceptical. I thought I am just downloading yet another Registry cleaner which would pretty much give me the same old results.

Well I was actually pretty shocked. This software certainly isn’t the run of the mill Registry cleaner, in fact it is kind of hard to explain, but I was completely impressed. First i will try and explain what the product is, then give a breakdown of all the actual features.

Total PC Health is not just a PC cleaner. It is an all-in-one tool that has all the features you need to totally fix your PC and improve performance. The scan model in this product is actually five scans built into one. It will scan the Registry, drivers, processes, privacy and Malware. Overall I think the scan took like 45 seconds, but this was on a decent PC. I expect slower scans, depending on how many errors.

The scan detected about 38 errors and 12 out-of-date drivers. What it also detected were all of my privacy items such as chat logs, internet browsing history, Office history etc. This was pretty cool because I don’t normally use a privacy cleaner, but i can see why it would be useful (i have now shredded some stuff that shouldn’t be seen).

Besides the scan and repair, I also found a bunch of other features in this product. There are disk defrag tools, duplicate file finder, file extension locator, temp files cleaner, startup process manager, restore point manager, etc.  To be honest, I haven’t gone through all of the features yet, as I find the quick scan and repair quite sufficient. But I think as an overall PC optimization tool, this is going to be hard to beat.

Here i will try and list all of the features I located in this application:

  • Registry cleaner and Registry repair
  • Automatic driver updater
  • Disk defrag analysis and repair (with scheduler)
  • Privacy cleaner and shredder
  • Duplicate file finder
  • Process optimizer and process manager
  • Startup manager
  • Browser helper object manager
  • Disk cleanup
  • Malware removal
  • File extension fix

That is a pretty impressive set of tools to have in one interface. To sum it all up, an excellent product that I now have on three of my PCs. I just can’t tell you how handy it is to have a driver updater with Registry cleaner. This saves me so much time and I no longer need to run two different programs.

PROS: Multiple scan models, tons of excellent features. You can easily fix PC errors and optimize with this product. If this doesn’t fix up your PC, nothing will.

CONS: I think the Malware remover needs a bit of work. It does find stuff, but I don’t think it finds everything. Also, some of the menu browsing was a bit confusing. You just need to get acquainted with the green arrows in the top right.

I highly recommend this product. You can get it from the link below, or via Softpedia.

Total PC Health

Total PC Health on Softpedia

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Windows 7 UAC

August 29th, 2009

UAC has annoyed many users since it was introduced in Vista. It has definitely been improved in Windows 7, but some of you may want to further modify the settings. Doing this is very easy.

Modify UAC settings in Windows 7:

  • Click “Start”
  • Click “Control Panel”
  • Click “User Accounts”
  • Click “Change User Account Control settings”
  • Adjust the slider accordingly

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Unlocking Windows 7

November 4th, 2008

For those of you that were given a copy of Windows 7 build 6801, there are some features that can be unlocked.

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It has been found that in this demo, the features were locked out for users that were not Microsoft staff etc. But it seems that Rafael from WithinWindows has found a way to enable the locked taskbar features.

I don’t have a copy of Windows 7 to test this out, but the following site will give you the details of what you need to do. It sounds pretty cool, so let us know how it turns out.

Unlock Windows 7 features

PDC2008

October 31st, 2008

The Professional Developers Conference has just been going on from October 27-30 and Microsoft has been releasing alot of info about their new upcoming products as well as demos of Windows 7.

Below are some links to the keynote presentations from Day 1 and Day 2. If you have any interest in Microsoft related products, you should find these very informative.

Day 1

Day 2

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Windows 7 Official Name

October 15th, 2008

Well it seems that Microsoft has finally come up with an official name for their new Windows 7 Operating system and it looks like they have thought about this long and hard.

The official name is……..Windows 7.

Pretty original huh?

Anyway, who really cares what they call it. Lets just hope it meets expectations and with all the new user feedback they are getting, it should be a better OS than Vista.