iolo System Mechanic 10.8 for Microsoft Windows

The top-rated Windows Tune Up software solution at Best-PCTuneUp.com, iolo System Mechanic 10.8 is an award-winning PC tune-up suite designed to fix, speed up and maintain PCs so they run like new forever. System Mechanic is used by more than 26 million consumers worldwide to keep nearly 75 million computers running at peak performance. As the only tune-up software to include iolo's industry-first Tune-up Definitions, as well as its patent-pending ActiveCare automatic maintenance technology, System Mechanic 10.7 represents a new, smarter approach to PC repair, optimization, and maintenance.

System Mechanic 10.8 combines multiple groundbreaking approaches to improving PC speed and stability with countless fine-tuned enhancements, further solidifying its reputation as the go-to solution for ultimate PC performance and trouble-free computing. Coupled with iolo's recently introduced and industry-first Whole Home License, customers can now use System Mechanic 10.8 to keep every PC in their home running like new for one affordable price. System Mechanic 10.8 is the only tune-up software that has evolved to proactively anticipate the needs of today's PC users. Continuously updated Tune-up Definitions from iolo Labs inject scientific intelligence into System Mechanic's repair and maintenance tools so they are always informed about the latest PC problems and can dynamically adapt to each specific configuration. iolo¿s exclusive and patented ActiveCare technology works behind the scenes when PCs are idle to keep them proactively optimized and tuned for maximum performance.

System Mechanic includes more than 40 cutting-edge PC performance tools in an elegant and simple design that appeals to novice and expert users alike. With its industry-first Tune-up Definitions, delivering weekly updates that instruct the software how to resolve the latest causes of PC slowdowns, System Mechanic remains up-to-date with an exclusive approach to keeping computers running like new. The software has been the recipient of hundreds of prestigious awards from media all over the world, including, most recently, Government Computer News' (US) Product of the Year, PC Advisor's (UK) Product of the Year, Chip magazine's (India) Test Center Recommended, Chip magazine's (Germany) Gut, and Winmag Pro's (Netherlands) Editor's Choice.

While it is commonly known that hardware limitations such as inadequate memory levels, low storage capacity, processor bottlenecks, or even malicious software infections can hinder computer speed, the universal – and more entropic – phenomenon of gradual and ongoing degradation of PC performance with continued use remains unexplained by these hardware-based factors and has confounded computer users for decades. Since 1998, iolo Labs has analyzed millions of PCs in an effort to quantify the seemingly inevitable performance entropy that occurs during everyday computing use, and to create software and tools that can effectively reverse and prevent it. With the addition of two newly identified factors - program misalignment caused by file system entropy, and resource deadlock caused by incremental software redundancy - iolo Labs now counts a total of nine root causes of PC slowdown.

System clutter is one of the most insidious factors in Windows performance degradation. It builds up silently over time in the background from untidy programs, unclean computer shutdowns, and general everyday use. If not regularly cleaned, junk files can cause the computer to undergo superfluous and wasteful processing. With System Mechanic, you can eliminate wasteful system-clogging clutter and enable patent-pending ActiveCare to keep your PC automatically clutter-free and running at its peak. Your system will start up quicker, work faster, and perform with greater reliability. Activity log tracks left by dozens of new programs as you use them can be safely and securely wiped away by the improved Privacy Cleaner tool in System Mechanic 10, which now leverages military-grade Incinerator multi-pass data shredding technology.

The all-new Designated Drivers tool keeps your PC running swift and stable by making sure that your PC¿s hardware drivers are always up-to-date. What's more, Designated Drivers only uses Microsoft-approved driver updates, ensuring your computer receives the most broadly compatible and stable updates available anywhere. Designated Drivers available exclusively in System Mechanic 10.5 lets you update all of your PC's drivers with just one click, now making driver updates a painless process. Even better, Designated Drivers is the only tool of its kind to exclusively use Microsoft-approved driver updates, which have gone through two rounds of quality assurance testing to help ensure the updates are safe, reliable and broadly compatible.

Now included in System Mechanic 10.8, SSD Accelerator streamlines, optimizes, and speeds up the latest state-of-the-art solid state drives [SSDs]. SSD Accelerator can significantly improve overall PC performance while helping to extend the life and dependability of your SSD. It's the only tool of its kind that automatically and proactively optimizes SSDs, so that they¿re always up- to-speed and ready for action. SSD Accelerator has also been carefully designed to work together with and alongside System Mechanic's other drive optimization technologies and iolo's patented ActiveCare technology, so users with both traditional hard drives and SSDs can enjoy the convenience of optimizing the entire system at once, and keeping it at peak performance automatically thereafter.

Some of the new features in System Mechanic 10 include:

• Whole Home Licensing: Now, keep all your household PCs running at maximum performance with just a single license of System Mechanic! Get more performance and more value with the first-ever software license that is good for every PC in your single family household.
• CRUDD Remover Eliminates System Drag: CRUDD stands for Commonly Redundant or Unnecessary Decelerators and Destabilizers, and System Drag is that inevitable slowdown computers are subject to as more and more of these types of programs are installed [either knowingly or otherwise] over time. The new CRUDD Remover uses a proprietary algorithm developed by iolo Labs to analyze your PC for unnecessary, superfluous, unused, or redundant programs. It then presents all potential speed-leeching culprits so you can easily understand their impact on speed and resources, and then uninstall those not being used. Removing unused programs that are weighing your PC down is one of the best ways to unlock lost performance, but in the past this process was cumbersome and even dangerous, often with unpredictable results. System Mechanic 10's ground-breaking new CRUDD Remover eliminates the guesswork and puts the control and PC performance back in your hands.
• Program Accelerator: Speeds up overall program responsiveness by re-aligning all of a program's dependent files on the hard drive. Program misalignment is a major system slowdown caused by Windows and software updates. It leads to progressively slower program launch and responsiveness as dependent files become scattered all over the hard drive. Program Accelerator's first-of-its-kind patent-pending technology adds sophistication to enhance defrag tools, such as Drive Accelerator and move related files back together.
• Total Registry Revitalizer: Repair, compact, defragment, and backup your Windows registry in one step. Integrates all of System Mechanic's powerful registry tools to provide complete and seamless all-in-one care for the Windows registry, performing the entire battery of critical repair, maintenance, and optimization procedures in one step. This tool also leverages System Mechanic's dramatically improved technology with up to 5 times higher problem-detection rate, improved overall speed and efficiency of scans, and enhanced reporting that provides more detailed scope of errors.
• Jump Lists: System Mechanic 10 now supports this new popular feature of Windows 7. More advanced than shortcuts, Windows 7 Jump Lists let you get inside your favorite programs and 'jump' directly to the functions you use most. System Mechanic's Jump List lets you optimize your PC with a click of a button, giving you fast access to system analyses, repairs, and some of the program’s most frequently used optimization tools.
• Internet Repair Gets You Back on the Web: System Mechanic 10's new Internet Connection Repair technology detects bad connections and uses a battery of proprietary technology to not only repair and reconnect your computer, but also ensure the connection is as clean, fast, and reliable as possible. This new tool digs deep to bring your PC back on the web and keep it moving down the information superhighway at maximum speeds.

Additional enhancements in System Mechanic 10 include:

• Energy Booster: Boost speed by turning off unused background programs. Perfect for gamers, video and sound engineers, artists, web designers... or any serious computer user who requires raw, fast performance - instantly. Frees up system memory and CPU resources to give Windows additional horsepower. Uses iolo Labs' Tune-up Definitions and user-defined profiles to identify background programs and services that can be temporarily shut down.
• Hundreds of new Tune-up Definitions for even more effective tune-ups: Since its official launch in June 2009, iolo Labs has been busy studying and analyzing Windows 7 performance degradation trends and patterns. The research team has discovered hundreds of new ways to optimize and repair the operating system, which have been included in the latest set of Tune-up Definitions, offered as free weekly updates to all System Mechanic users with an active service plan. Successfully making System Mechanic even more effective over time, the newest Tune-up Definition updates give the product the knowledge to intelligently identify even more causes of performance and stability degradation, resulting in more effective repairs and optimizations than ever before.
• PC Health Status Gadget: Designed for both Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines, System Mechanic's PC Health Status Gadget provides real-time status reports on a computer's health, a running feed of the repairs and optimizations performed by System Mechanic, as well as drill-down access to any detected problems and system warnings. It also gives you a quick and easy way to access the most commonly used functions in System Mechanic, such as Memory Mechanic and Energy Booster.

System Mechanic 10, compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP. The program remains as effective as ever on Windows XP and Vista systems, offering a comprehensive set of PC tune-up tools for all the most popular operating systems in use today.