Fix-It Utilities 12 Professional [Old Version]

Well, I dont know how it does on new computers, but I installed this on my older version HP and Ive had nothing but problems. Now I cant get my printer to work, and other programs are having a lot of problems. I wish I would never had installed this thing. The computer was fine before I tried this. I dont know if it was this program, or if I got a virus by chance at the same time--but Im now very disgusted.

This review is for, Avanquest Fix-It Utilities 12 Professional First off I should have looked up any problems this program may be having. If you do a Google search for problems, youll see there really isnt any real good solutions to problems, users are having with this. I installed the full version of this, it does give you options to choose what you want to load. After I started the program I wanted to download the latest updates and virus definitions. Told me it couldnt connect to get updates, ok server was busy or something, at 2 am in the morning? Finally, after several tries and a day or so later, I was able to download the updates. Right away I noticed my shut down time nearly tripled, so I checked the registry for any changes in the line for my shut down values, couldnt find any changes there. Then I ran all the utilities in this program. There are 3 barrels that tell you the health of your computer, but one was reading only 38%. Why was that I thought after I had just ran all the utilities? So I did a Google search, sure enough, it seems other users were having the same problem. None of the 2 answers users received worked to change the 38% reading in the barrel. I didnt see a real improvement in my Windows 7, Triple Core laptop so I decided this program was wasting space on my hard drive and decided to delete it. No problem, Control Panel and uninstall program right? NOT! It couldnt proceed with removing this hard drive waster of a program, because of background programs still running. So I checked for any Avanquest Fix-It utilities programs running and shut them down, now I can delete this right? NOT! To end this review, Ill tell you how to delete this. Boot into Safe Mode of your computer. Go to the programs files (X86)folder where you will find the folder for this program, rename it old or whatever you like. Reboot into regular mode and manually remove the folder you renamed. An error will come up maybe after you delete this folder, saying it couldnt find it. Run Ccleaner and the registry cleaner thats in it. This should remove any further error messages. But after finally figuring out how to delete this my shut down time was still triple as it once was. You can restore to an earlier version of Windows 7, which some people may ask why I didnt do that in the first place? Because I feel that still would have left pieces of this program in my registry, slowing my laptop down. It was due time for me to do a clean install of Windows 7 and now my laptop is once again running like new.

Not as good as older versions and would not let me completely take this program off. It slows down the computer and absolute garbage. Too bad so sad Avanquest. Fix it 5 was so good what happened

wasnt compatible with Windows 7

This product almost wreaked havoc on a brand new laptop! I bought this product in March to help me work on the registry for my old computer. It seemed to work fine back then. I installed it to my new HD laptop. It worked ok at first, but when it updated, it literally wiped every program from my PC. I had to use recovery to get it to work again. I was not sure if it was my new computer at fault. I reinstalled it and again, the patch causes the computer to erase itself. I have immediately uninstalled it from my computer.

Fix-It utilities seems to do a fine, if temporary, job of speeding up network browsing time and PC performance issues. But everytime you want to fix a problem, you are asked whether you want to register the software. If you dont, the program closes.

The software was a disaster for me. As an ordinary computer user, I wanted to use this software to fasten my relatively new computer. I was happy to receive this item on time, and downloaded it as soon as I received it. Long be hold; it took the entire afternoon to down load it. After the installation, my computer froze. I decided to uninstall the program. But since the mouse was rendered useless, I tried shut down and on again for luck. Luckily, I had about one minutes of function of the mouse to get the uninstall button to work. It took all evening and night to uninstall the program. I am happy now that I get my computer back to its former condition and can read the emails and news. My advice is that if you are not a geek, dont buy this software.

Work ok used only on old xp computors

Fix-It Utilities is a very useful piece of software. It optimizes the Windows registry, defragments your hard drives, speeds up the internet, and also has virus and spyware protection as well as other options. I found it very easy to install and use. Upon installing, if you already have an antivirus program installed, it will detect that and then not install the antivirus software included in this software. (You can install their antivirus at a later date if you so choose.) This is a great feature if you want to keep your current antivirus protection while using all the other features of this software.

It is a toss up between giving this 3 stars or 4. Either seems appropriate so I will lean towards 4 stars because it works and that is what really counts.