Advanced SystemCare 5.1.0

Advanced SystemCare Editor's Review

Soft32 rating: 5

We all been through hell one time or another. It's a place where you find yourself when your computer is driving you insane with problems, glitches, or running awfully slow. There are several problems that could be causing this and the most likely reason is all those irregular settings and errors your operating system may have after some time, or the huge list of programs running behind the scenes that are eating up your computer's available processing capacity. Now, considering that performing a clean-up and fixing errors is not just time-consuming, but it's a laborious task even for advanced users, you can't go wrong with IObit’s software suite for PC maintenance and optimization: Advanced SystemCare.

First launched in 2005, Advanced SystemCare has been around for enough time to evolve into a powerful suite of tuneup tools that can optimize, clean, protect and repair your computers. Now with the release of version 5, the suite brings many improvements, some new features and enhanced usability. One of the most significant features added in the latest version is Active Boost. This new module runs in the background and improves your PC's performance by optimizing applications RAM and CPU use in real time. Features such as Quick and Deep Care have been also enhanced; the interface improved for easier to use, and Turbo Boost can recover more system resources. Moreover, there is a new cloud technology that ensures the program database is kept updated in order to face malware threats.

Back to basics, Advanced SystemCare divides its functions into four main sections. Quick Care can remove security threats, clean up the registry, scan and fix invalid shorcuts, erase history (and surfing traces), and clean up junks files. Deep Care provides more thorough versions of Quick Care, plus other functions such as computer boot time optimization, hard drive and registry defrag, hard drive errors fix, security defense, vulnerability fix and more. The third section (the Toolbox), includes over 25 useful utilities such as a applications uninstaller, file shredder, startup manager, disk doctor, data recovering tool, malware fighter, driver manager and much more. And the last section, Turbo Boost, can boost your computer resources by temporarily turning off services and applications when gaming or when you need extra system resources.

Pros: Real-time computer optimization; compatibility with both 32 and 64-bit systems; fast opening time; great user experience; nice looking interface; Driver Manager which helps you update and backup/restore system drivers.

Cons: For some tools such as advanced performance tuneups or malware removal, you'll have to upgrade to the Pro version.

Conclusion: Comprehensive PC maintenance and optimization suite with nice-to-have features (expecially the Pro version) that will likely solve many problems your computer may be experiencing and maintain your computer to run smoothly.

Version reviewed: 5.0