Anvisoft Cloud System Booster Free: Review

Like living systems Windows performance decreases day by day. The main reason behind this is the growing number of junk files and registry entries, defragmentation in file system and Windows registry and also increasing number of startup, services etc. Moreover the default Windows settings are often not optimal for all cases. So, tweaking and maintenance is needed to regain Windows speed and performance. All these must require experts but most of the time its a costly choice. System Maintenance software automates the job of technicians and serves for the betterment of Windows PC at a low or no cost. I have reviewed System mechanic Free and Pro version recently. So you should be completely aware of the areas System maintenance suites should target. Anvisoft Cloud System Booster Free is another system maintenance suite that also comes in both Free and Paid versions. Like System Mechanic Tune-Up definitions, Cloud System Booster relies on Cloud assistance and currently able to fix 1070 types of PC Problems. According to the developer

Cloud System Booster is a new innovative system maintenance & optimization tool based on cloud database. The cloud technology is user-sourced, which means that it evaluates programs based on thousands of ratings, some by tech professionals and others by users who’ve used the applications and want to tell others about them. It’s a strong all-in-one PC repair and system maintenance program with Four powerful functions: Cleaner, Optimizer, Repair & Application Cleaner and Optimizer... The software can be used by both novice and expert computer users with same satisfaction.

PC HelpSoft Smart System Informer: Shows Detailed System Specs

Performance of a Windows PC depends on various parameters: its hardware specifications, running processes, startup items, installed software etc. So, to troubleshoot any issue, you need to know such details. PC HelpSoft Smart System Informer is a tiny freeware that provides all such information. According to the webpage,

Smart System Informer is a free tool that compiles all the information you need on installed hardware and software. Specific information includes computer ID, processor, BIOS, memory, disks, video, motherboard, monitor, etc. This information shown as number and graphical views - you can easily evaluate your computer's performance, and save the received data as a text file.

SSuite Office - System Monitor: Shows RAM, CPU, Pagefile Usage, Current IP Address

While testing SSuite Office - Backup Master earlier this day, I found out another tiny piece of software from them. Its SSuite Office - System Monitor; A real time desktop system monitor, that monitors system ram, cpu usage, page file load - {swap file}, and the system power in real time. It also shows internet connection status and displays the current I.P. address. This tiny application is a freeware and is portable. Must be an attractive choice for users of laptops, notebooks and netbooks. I quite like this simple application. If the points mentioned later in the Cons are considered it would be more appealing.

JetBoost Improves your Work and Gaming Experience

Windows uses many different processes and service to improve the experience and to for serving various needs related to its stability, security etc. We also install third party software to customize our choice and needs. Most if not all such software runs some background service all the time for its stability. Of course, with all such services and processes running Windows resources gets consumed and the free resources may not be sufficient for another resource intensive job like gaming, photoshopping etc. While it is possible to manually scroll to each processes and services and close the unnecessary ones and turn those on after the work is finished, its not the most convenient option. BlueSprig have released a software JetBoost to take care of such needs. According to the developer,

JetBoost ensures top performance from your PC. It releases system resources by shutting down unnecessary background processes and services and prioritizing processes. With three boost modes – game, work and custom – JetBoost configures your PC to best meet the demands of your activities. Game mode provides super gaming experience by automatically detecting and shutting unnecessary processes/services. Similarly, work mode is pre-configured to best meet your requirement for work. And custom mode allows you to create your favorite boosting mode!

You can even turn on those stopped processes after your work is done, with a click of a mouse!!

Anvi Browser Repair Tool Fixes Common Browser Problems

Browser is the most common infection vendor in Microsoft Windows. Malicious software hijack browsers, adds toolbar, change search engine, changes registry settings and makes internet browsing a hell-like experience with frequent pop-ups, redirection, crash etc. Among all browsers for Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer still rocks the market share since it comes pre-installed in Windows. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome comes after that, Opera, Safari, Maxthon etc has only a little market share according to reports. As obvious the browser hijacking incidents follow the order of browser market share. To fix the problems resulting from common browser hijacking incidents Anvisoft recently has released a new portable application known as Anvi Browser Repair Tool. According to Anvisoft

Many users may troubled by those problem such as default homepage changed, numerous annoying ads pop out, being redirected to other malicious websites or browser crash down without exact reason, especially if windows system had been unfortunately infected with viruses when using Internet Explorer surfing online. Anvi Browser Repair Tool is a free tool created to help you conveniently repair browser settings and networking settings such as homepage, safe startup items, DNS settings, Title Bar, BHO plug-in, etc, changed by malware to return smooth browser use. While antivirus, antimalware tool helps detect and remove malware infections from computer, this program will practically assist normalizing safe browser searching. Anvi Browser Repair Tool is designed to help fix browser, network settings altered due to rogueware/malware infections and even facilitate malware removal with one-click solution.

System mechanic 11 Standard Brings Full Power to your PC: Review & Giveaway

Few days ago, I wrote about System Mechanic 11 Free Version. Actually, I was offered to wrote about the paid version some time ago and since the software does have many features, I had split that to two reviews by first writing about the free version. As mentioned there the powerful Free version still lacks a number of useful features that the full standard version have. All those features make System Mechanic a suite that one can hardly complain about.

Fix Corrupt Files with File Repair

Have you ever encountered with errors called file is not in a recognizable format, or, unable to read file, or, file cannot be accessed, or, application cannot open the type of file represented by filename, or, out of memory errors, or, low system resources errors? If yes, then be informed that your file has been corrupted and some data has become unreadable. Under such circumstances you need a software like File Repair which will scan the corrupted file, read through the damaged bytes and will extract maximum possible data from it to a new usable file.

Registry Life: A Tool for Maintaining Windows Registry - Review

Windows registry is important for its proper functioning. Windows default commands and commands for the installed software is embedded in the registry. So, if registry becomes corrupted, things will start malfunctioning. Ideally a software uninstallation should remove all the registry entries that software creates during installation or during its function. Unfortunately in most cases this does not happen. Also Windows itself stores junk registries time to time. With the increase in duration of computer usage, unneeded registry entries get accumulated and chances of false or invalid commands from those useless registries increase and Windows start slowing down. Also, fragmentation in registry is a factor that grows with time. Response from Windows registry slows down with fragmentation.

There have been two schools of thought regarding cleaning up and optimization of Windows registry. In spite of the above mentioned facts (hypothesis !!) some do not believe in the utility of registry maintenance while some does believe in that. A common point of belief is that registry cleaning should be done with proper knowledge since it could be dangerous if edited improperly.

Registry Life is a free utility from ChemTable Software that does the registry cleaning and optimization with ease. It offers automatic backup, exclusion, manual selection of reported registry entries. Please note that registry maintenance software does its job based on some algorithms and so none is perfect to identify the real situation. So, when using registry cleaning you need to manually justify whether only useless registry entries are getting removed.

SuperEasy Codec Checker Fixes Codec Not Found Error

We buy videos and audios for our entertainment and everything goes into vain when we see errors like " Codec Not Found " during its playback. SuperEasy Codec Checker is a gifted freeware that analyzes videos and audio files and informs you about file format, resolution, frame rate, file container, audio- and video bit rate as well as about the used and required codecs.

Piriform CCleaner Adds Full support for Windows 8

CCleaner has always been my number 1 choice for cleaning junk files, privacy items & junk registry entries. In fact it is the first software of this kind I used after Windows default utilities. There are a number of positive sides of the application. It is open-source, regularly updated & supported by a large, helpful community, that makes it as perfect as possible. Moreover, you may add your custom programs for CCleaner to clean.

Today, Piriform, the developer of CCleaner have released yet another version of the leading software, with a complete support of the upcoming Windows 8.

Microsoft have released the final build of Windows 8 to developers, so we've spent the last week finalizing changes to CCleaner to allow us to fully support this next generation OS.

Review: System Mechanic 11 Free - An Outstanding System Maintenance Suite

Although an Operating System acts like a Robot and just responds to sensory input, it does have some feature like a live species. It ages out like human or like any other live species with time. There are lots of sources of such aging like fragmentation in disk and registry, lots of junk files, invalid and junk registry entries, lots of unnecessary service and start-up items. Unlike a living system it is possible to repair and regenerate the youth of operating systems through proper maintenance.
Experts hold various different opinions regarding the mode of maintenance of an Operating systems. To be on the safe side it is preferable to try each and every mode and see its outcome. In this connection, it is worthy to mention that some operating system problems may originate from faulty hardware components like Hard Disk, Sata Cable, Motherboard, SMPS etc.
I usually perform maintenance of the operating system only when I see noticeable slowdown or system issues. Personally, I prefer to manually edit, clean things or with the help of minimum automation (software), because that gives me more pleasure and command over the changes to be performed. But those who are not so technically inclined and just want to have everything done with a few clicks of mouse, there are a number of system maintenance suites, free and paid. From my experience with those suites, most of those are either unable to cover up the entire maintenance protocols or just make false claims. There are only a few trustworthy suites available and System Mechanic from Iolo Technologies is one of such kind. This suite has both free and paid versions available and in this post I will be discussing about the Free product. The US based company recently has launched System Mechanic 11.

Abyssal Recovery Can Copy Corrupted Files from Local or Removable Storage

Have you ever faced 'CRC [Cyclic redundancy check] Check failed' error!! If you have already gone through such annoying error, you must have remembered that nightmare and don't want to repeat that.

Experts say,

The cyclic redundancy check, or "CRC" error, indicates a bad spot on your hard drive. The fact that you're seeing it when you try to copy a file indicates that the bad spot may be within the file itself.

Abyssal Recovery is a very useful type of software that can help in such situation. According to developers description,

Abyssal Recovery can rescue corrupted or lost data from damaged, scratched, or defective CD and DVD discs. .... can copy the files to another destination on your hard drive. Abyssal Recovery will skip the bytes which are not readable from file and copy all other bytes to extract maximum data. You can set the program to copy byte with byte to minimize the losses, or you can set a higher number of bytes to be copied once for a faster recovery.

Tweak Windows Settings with Portable Tweakers

Windows has many hidden settings for advanced users. Those can be managed by adding, removing or editing registry entries or by running commands. For less techie users, these can be complicated but if they are willing to use those tweaks without much exposure to technical details, Tweakers from Fahmy Corporation is an excellent choice. the software is portable and have many important tweaks in it which makes it handy for geeks.

Change Folder and File Attribute with Portable AttributeMagic Free

Few days back I wrote about XChange Attribute that was able to change attributes of a batch of files. Today I will discuss about AttributeMagic Free from Elwinsoft, a portable utility that can change attribute of both files and folders. Additionally it can change the Date and Time of Creation, Modification and Access of those file and folder and also can change the file name and extension.

Quickly Gather Windows Software and Hardware Information with Portable AnalyzSys

Detailed information on Windows software and hardware are very handy for troubleshooting problems. There are a number of tools that provide such details. But in my knowledge no other tools can give the information as fast as AnalyzSys. It is a portable software from Machinescript Inc., the developer of Prohash. According to the developer,

This utility's purpose is to give detailed information about your system, helping you in diagnosing problems with Microsoft® Windows®. It can mainly be used for displaying certain software & hardware information (info regarding but not limited to operating system, boot configuration, running processes & services, BIOS, memory, motherboard, monitors, processors, video, sound & network cards etc) to help you quickly diagnose problems with your system.

Rectify Internet Connection Problems with Datum Complete Internet Repair or Manually

Internet is the most popular and important way of communicating, learning, earning, buying now-a-days. I myself find restless when something happens to the internet connection. Draw me in the cartoon ;-)

Lol !! Anyway, internet connection problem may be broadly due to a problem with your ISP, connected Modem or Router or problem in the Operating System.

Another Command Prompt is a Portable Windows Command Prompt Alternative

Command Prompt is the most valuable resource to computer geeks for managing and customizing operating system. But in well administered PC command prompt is often disabled for security reasons and also in some malware infested PC, command prompt gets disabled by malware for its smooth performance. Another Command Prompt is an Open Source Portable Windows Command Prompt alternative that is able to bring the same look and feel as Windows Command Prompt.

Kill Multiple Processes At Once with Portable MiTeC Task Manager DeLuxe

Windows Task Manager is an excellent administrative tool to manually control running Process, Service etc. You will be able to see details of the unknown processes and thereby allows you to detect and kill unwanted processes like malware, riskware etc. But modern malware are smart enough to disable Windows Task Manager rendering your task harder. So, it is always better to have a portable executable that performs the same job as Windows Task Manager, since malware can also block software installation. I have already wrote about a similar application Process Manager that can do similar job. MiTeC Task Manager DeLuxe is another alternative application that you might like to look at. According to the developer:

Task Manager DeLuxe (TMX) offers powerfull features available in standard Windows Task Manager in lightweight portable package with many more enhancements. It needs no installation and leaves no tracks in system so it can be easily used as portable application everywhere. There is also AutoRefresh feature providing automatic refreshing of current screen in defined interval. Session viewer contains automatic session journal which logs every session login, logout, lock and status change. It is useful especially on terminal servers to watch how users connect and disconnect to their desktops.

Datum Memory Booster Frees up RAM by calling Windows API

Freeing up large amount of RAM may be a frequently used marketing keyword, is in fact a fake promise.

most of them rely on the placebo effect, this is, if you think it’s going to work, it will. Also, most of them will try and optimize your system by forcing memory out of RAM.

and that's why I would suggest everyone to upgrade his PC's RAM since it is really cheap these days. But if you wish you can try Datum Memory Booster which claims to work in a different way.

It will however make a Windows API call that tells Windows to clean up the workspace of all processes thus freeing up any memory, processes no longer needs (Clear Processes Working Set). It will do this periodically to help improve the speed and the stability of your system. ......this method will not free up a big amount of RAM, but instead will, as previously stated, improve the stability and performance of your computer. This will also cure memory leaks and in some cases has been able to unfreeze programs.

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional can Monitor, Inspect, Fix Errors in HDD and SSD: Review & Giveaway

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD) is the main storage unit of a Computer. When a data is copied to a HDD/SSD it is stored to tiny areas in its surface. So, even a minute damage or dirt in that area can render that data unreadable. By default, HDD/SSD marks such area/sector as bad, tries to read and copy the data (reallocate) to a spare area first and then redirects all access to that bad sector to the spare area. As such that bad sector cannot be accessed even by a complete drive format. While it may sound good since this process doesn't require user action, for drives with constantly increasing bad sectors, it can cause serious trouble because the user gets ultimately notified when very little spare area is left for reallocation and a very little time (about 24 hours) to backup the data. Moreover, problems resulting from Weak sectors, High temperature, Incorrect power, Mechanical shock, Vibration are not necessarily notified by the HDD/SSD.

Hard Disk Sentinel, in contrary runs in background and monitors the status and health of HDD/SSD by constantly monitoring the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive(s), not by just checking S.M.A.R.T. attribute thresholds and values like most similar software and reports about even slightest errors/failures as soon it is detected.