System Mechanic 10.5

Description

Update: The review below pertains to System Mechanic 9.

System Mechanic 9 is a powerful and includes a deep set of tools for analyzing and optimizing your Windows system. It is easy to use, with an elegant interface and an extraordinary degree of customizability and fine control.

System Mechanic 9 is one of those programs which can elegantly move from "Fire and Forget" to drilling down to the deepest levels and tweaking each option. System Mechanic's range of capabilities combines many different tools into one integrated package. It defragments memory, makes sure your deleted files are really deleted, erases unused temp files and old Web caches, optimizes your startup routine, and more. System Mechanic also allows you to create several profiles of various sets of startup and background processes. The more you poke around in System Mechanic, the more tools you find. There's easy access to many of Windows's more obscure system settings.

It is easy to use, with an elegant interface and an extraordinary degree of customizability and fine control.

One problem we found - the "deep search" feature for duplicate files – it took a long time in searching a 1.5 terabyte hard disk. Despite the glitch above, we've found System Mechanic 9 to be very useful and powerful.