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Review: PC Booster 2013 may speed up slow PCs |
March 12, 2013
If your computer's running slow, you're probably wondering what will give it the jolt it needs. PC Booster aims to help: This $35 application is designed to boost your PC's performance by optimizing your system from top to bottom. It's easy to use and sports an attractive interface, but PC Booster may be overwhelming for some users.
PC Booster scans your computer, looking for clutter and faulty settings that may be impacting its performance. It's designed to look for errors and other issues causing system slowdowns, instability, slow startups, and potential privacy hazards. It does this by looking for hidden junk files that you no longer need and temporary files that are using up space. Once the errors are identified, PC Booster goes to work fixing them, with a goal of delivering you a more stable, faster-running system. (Note: PC Booster's free version, which PCWorld tested, will fix only 15 errors.) Gauging just how well it works, though, can be difficult.
I tested PC Booster on a Windows 7 laptop that was running very slowly and suffering from frequent system crashes. The computer had been used to test dozens of software programs, many of which had since been uninstalled, and was frequently used by young children who didn't always operate it with care. PC Booster scanned the system quickly, and I liked that the scan did not start automatically. Some products, such as PerfectRegistry, begin a scan as soon as you launch them, without any warning. System scans can impact performance as they're running, so it's nice to have control over them.
PC Booster's simple, easy-to-understand interface shows the overall health of your system at a quick glance.
In just a few minutes, PC Booster found 557 errors on the PC, with a total of 23,441 items to clean. While that seemed overwhelming—and slightly alarmist—PC Booster made it easy to dig a little deeper into the actual issues themselves. The scan results are organized into four groups: System Registry and Integrity, Disk Performance Issues,
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030336/review-pc-booster-2013.html#tk.rss_reviews
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