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By: Wolf1003

Wolf1003 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:11:12 +0000

At first I was impressed by the sheer variety of tools it offers. I started my test by applying its Registry Cleaner. It came up with 288 problems. That very much surprised me as I have been using Uniblue’s Registry Booster quite regularly for quite some time now. It normally comes up with three or four problems, but very rarely more. When I clicked on the cleaning button it seemed to take less than a second for it to do the whole cleaning job. I simply do not know how any program can do this so quickly.

Than I tried it with the program that finds file duplications. I found this option very useful indeed as I have been wondering for quite a while now how to do this manually. Yes, I agree with some other commentators in that it is a very simple program. It took me very long to click on all the many boxes for the files that had to go. But it did its job, and I am very grateful for that.

The other program I have used so far is the DiskDefrag tool. When it starts analysing at first it colours all the files as represented on its monitor in green. Green stands for Used Space. As this still makes sense to me the next thing it did does not. The same files where now shown in red, which means Fragmented. Is this a kind of visual gimmick? Only when it had finished the analysing process it did show everything with the objective colour codes. What surprised me even more is how long it took to do its work. Here I did run it in comparison with my well trusted IObit Smart Defrag tool. The first time I gave up after much more than an hour as there was no sign at all when it ever would finish. Therefore I did run the Fast Optimize program on my IObit Smart Defrag. It finished it in the usual way, i.e. in not more than 10 minutes. At next I did run WinUtilities again. Its analysis did show the same result as the IObit in terms of the few remaining defragmented files. But then it was not even able to do its work on those files within 1 1/2 hours. That was the point where I gave up.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:31:20 +0000

It is 11:18 p.m and I finally have the solution to the installation problem.

I uninstalled version 7.1 Next, I looked in the listing for Windows ADD/REMOVE SOFTWARE, there was NO WinUtilities listed. I opened Cleanse Unstaller Pro and NO WinUtilities was listed.

Someone here mentioned there was a WU 7.0 icon in the system tray.
HMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm! I looked and sure enough still had a Winutilities icon in my sytem tray. An older version of WU was now active on my computer.

I went into C:\Program Files/ and there was a WinUtilities folder with WO.exe and a couple dll files — ComLicense2.dll and some others. The program was running, but I could only find it using a manual search.

I manually deleted everything in that folder and tried installing 9.1 and wonder of wonders it installed with no problem.

Sorry this is so late in the give-away day, but I just discovered this fix.

By: Eldad

Eldad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:54:03 +0000

Thank you for the new 9.1 version. Like a few others I had some problems installing it over the older 7.1 version, but succeeded after the 3rd. try.
Then had a problem where the control window had some over prints due to mis-registration of the various field. Reinstalled it again and now it works fine AND looks fine, thanks very much!
Suggestion to providers of programs: How about including in the Readme file instructions on how to best install a program WHEN THERE IS AN OLDER VERSION OF SAME ALREADY INSTALLED on the computer. This will save a lot of headaches, disappointments AND a lot of bad and negative reports due to inability to install a program properly because of no such instructions. I usually just install over the old, but I recognize that sometimes it is NOT the best way, or actually will result in a botched program – both the old and the new versions!
Thanks again,
Eldad

By: Bronwyn Wilson

Bronwyn Wilson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:38:05 +0000

I could not get this to run on my windows xp professional sp3 system. I don’t have any previous version of it. I kept getting a run time error c++. Reinstalled, rebooted and uninstalled.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:47:18 +0000

Win XP sp3 – Program will not install. NSIS Error Installer failed to Launch. Tried rebooting, same thing.

By: hotdoge3

hotdoge3 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:44:42 +0000

Advanced system Care is now Spyware

WinUtilities 9.1 All the tools you need very good.

By: Keymaster

Keymaster — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:52:56 +0000

I have a simple question states at top
The program is available for $49.95, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer but when I goto set it up it says installing free version is there any difference in the free version than if we paid for it? by the way it installed great and works good also thanks GOTD

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:55:35 +0000

Why does the install wizard say Welcome to the WinUtilities FREE Version 9.1 Setup ?

By: Bill3

Bill3 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:51:19 +0000

Marlee # 35

CCleaner has had a very good reputation for years with XP. It is a basic simple tool, that is ideal for regular use, rather like a dustpan and brush, instead of a vacuum cleaner. It cleans out your junk folders, and removes usage history, then does a basic registry clean. Also it has a few advanced functions which are very handy.

However, it does not do : a deep registry clean, defrag your partitions, defrag the registry, and so on. For that I can confidently recommend, novices go to IOBit.com for Advanced system Care 3, freeware, and read up on their tutorials, while experts can get JV16 Power Tools, payware.

Other necessity free tools are Revo Uninstaller, JavaRA, and Eraser for erasing the unused disc space.

Try to master this set of proven, free, safe, tools, and when you get a new computer, you can carry on as before. Now your setup, you can try out programs as WinUtilities, for fun.

Regards Bill. PS Hope you are using Firefox and Thunderbird.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:33:54 +0000

OK, I tried this without success this morning. I commented.
I had hoped the vendor would show their face and solve everyones problem. No such luck.

This makes me really appreciate the vendors who come in here, answer questions and try to help potential customers.

I wonder what kind of customer support you would get if you bought this program.