In response to [ infi ], "... remote access to resources requires administration permission ..."

Just means you have a network share on your computer that others can access directly as administrators.

I have dozens of such shares on every one of my PCs so I can see everything from everywhere wherever I am sitting at my private home network.

It's hard to imagine how anyone could get on a public network with sharing turned on, but that's when we might want to password protect our shares.

Or in an office to stop HR from seeing our documents, maybe?

ANY message from Kerish Doctor can be ignored or accepted, and reversed as you learn more.

Also, tell us how Kerish Doctor responds to your direct inquiry of them.

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In response to [ Tj Anderson ], "... internet disconnected after running Kerish Doctor ..."

Aside from manual restore points, also always have FREE [ Tweaking. com ] Windows Repair AIO All In One that can reset much of Windows to it's out of the box defaults, including resetting the Internet connection - download it via another computer, copy it to the disconnected computer, and run it, and reboot.

I also use a FREE boot-CD with Linux and Firefox so I can always browse and copy downloads to my internal hard drive in an emergency such as you experienced.

I suspect that if you run FREE Malwarebytes AdwCleaner, it will identify much infection that needs to be cleaned anyway, and Kerish Doctor got between them and you.

You can also run Kerish Doctor again, and hope for the best, it may restore Internet on subsequent runs and reboots.

Let us know how it goes.
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mylogon,

Take a few days to deeply explore the controls, almost everything is controllable either before or after test.

Weeks, maybe years, I've been using Kerish Doctor, and I am still discovering new things buried deep in the program.

My problem is how hard it is to re-find something I remember being in there somewhere.

I occasionally have the problem of left-clicking and getting unpredictable responses from the program, so I right-click and select from menus if possible - however, that is on one computer, and another computer does not exhibit the misbehavior, so it's probably the computer at fault, but it would be nice if Kerish Doctor found and remedied the difference between the two computers.
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mylogon, Are you sure it deletes all cookies? Not on my machine and I have used KD for two years. I did not even configure it to leave coolies alone...

Al, That is exactly my point, it says *Cookies* as things it will delete. There is no control or information as to what it will or will not do. No options.

Peter Blaise, to "deeply explore" the options takes less than 30 seconds as there are exactly 13. On or off - nothing else.

1. Go to Program Settings | General Settings and see for yourself. 13 Options, and
2. The next options - language and themes - they don't count as they do not effect the action.
3. Update - On/Off
4. Hardware Monitor - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen
5. Memory Optimization - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen
6. Apps Live Optimization - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen
7. Error Repair - Runs a built-in Windows app
8. Junk Cleanup - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen
9. PC Protection - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen
10. PC Control - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen

So, I stand by my statement that there is no way to control what the application is doing, as there are no options.

What menus, there is only one menu, and it gives five options to select to turn on the components.

No menus is exactly the problem. No options is the problem. If you choose, the *Recommended* option - *Full Scan* there are no options. Every single thing, in a well designed program, should be accessible from that scan. You should be able to select or deselect what you want to scan - you can't. If you don't want it to scan a section, or want to bypass something, you have to do it item by item - what is that nonsense!

Example: Junk Files/Privacy Files

What does the app call junk files or private files? Are MRU, Download History, Browser History, Downloaded files, Windows App update files included? Who knows - as there is no way to control. I can check each individual item when scanning - but who has time for tens of thousands or more entries to check!

Then, not to mention that it doesn't work very well. It shows that every file association is invalid. This includes *major* ones like .exe, .com, .scr, etc. I will certainly not remove 3,270 file associations - I like my computer to work.

As I said, for someone who doesn't care what the program does as they blindly trust it - it is a good app. For someone who wants their computer to run the way they want it to - this software is not what one would want.

I assume that there is something major wrong with the file association section of the app reading system, that likely has been fixed, else they would have a huge number of support tickets.

In response to [ mylogon ],

Great feedback – thanks, keep reading for THE SOLUTION ...

Yes, Kerish Doctor is, um, unusual in it’s organization and presentation, it duplicates a variety of things into otherwise different tools, has some awkward and difficult-to-intuit controls, and some controls, when and if ever found, are sometimes hard to interpret or even, um, control ...

… as I myself wrote in my own review here of Kerish Doctor, and have repeated over the past 4 years here and elsewhere.

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No, there are not just 13 controls.

There is first, 1 control …

… to turn [ On ] or [ Off ] real-time automatic passive-user more, versus active-user, manual use of the Kerish Doctor.

That is, Kerish Doctor works in automatic, real-time,

… or, not …

... and either way, we can also manually call up any Kerish Doctor tool, and use it, and then close that Kerish Doctor tool when we are done.

And also there are hundreds of controls for real-time behavior,

… even under your discovery of 1 “Program Settings” …

… there are 10 groups of settings, not just the 1 “General” setting …

... and it has 14 ( not 13 ) items ( the 14th is a control that reveals any hidden controls ).

And then there are thousands of controls ( not none ) for manual use of tools.

And yes, the [ Maintenance ] >> [ Diagnostics ] >> [ Full Scan ( Recommended ) ] tool ( which has 31 items, as many results as found, all toggleable on or off after the results are displayed ) checks everything in it’s list, and then the user can manually select which results to accept or reject ...

… versus the [ Maintenance ] >> [ Diagnostics ] >> [ Cleanup of Junk Files ] tool ( which has many items corresponding to whatever else is installed on our computer, over 40 items for one of my computers, more or less for other computers of mine ) …

… and versus the [ Custom Diagnostics ] tool ( mine shows 31 items, all toggleable on or off before and or after scan ) …

... so yes, each of these maintenance diagnostic scans have items that are toggleable on or off before AND after scan ( and, yes, they seem to have some duplicate behavior c'mon Kerish Doctor, simplify ! ).

( Note, file cleanup works in trail more with some features off in the results, then file cleanup stops altogether in free more, file cleanup only works fully in pro licensed mode. Cleanup of memory works only in pro licensed mode. )

Regarding your comments:

- - “… It shows that every file association is invalid. This includes *major* ones like .exe, .com, .scr, etc. I will certainly not remove 3,270 file associations - I like my computer to work … I assume that there is something major wrong with the file association section of the app reading system, that likely has been fixed, else they would have a huge number of support tickets …”.

Oh?

Did you try right-clicking on any of the results, and go to the location the result is looking at, where you will see that the registry entry is EMPTY.

So, no, Kerish Doctor does not break existing functional file associations.

Kerish Doctor cleans useless empty file associations … so that registry loading, searching, saving, backing up, and so on are neater, cleaner, faster, and more reliable.

How do empty registry entries get created in the first place?

The answer is … not for discussion here.

Just know that Kerish Doctor eliminates meaningless, wasteful, and broken registry entries, resulting in a neater, cleaner, faster, more reliable computer.

I know it may be hard to admit that our pride-and-joy computer has 3,270 misalignments in the registry ( or even more ! ), but Kerish Doctor presumes WE WANT TO KNOW.

Of course, cleaned-registry responsiveness will be more noticeable in an old low-MHz single-processor, single-thread computer, versus a brand new computer running 3 or 4 or more times the speed, and 4 to 8 times the processors and threads or more, but the cleanup and results are the same whether we notice them or not, whether we noticed them before cleaning or not.

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To your other observations:

- - “… 2. The next options - language and themes - they don't count as they do not effect the action …”

Correct-ish, but many folks ask programmers for control of the color and contrast of the program’s presentation, so kudos to Kerish Doctor.

- - “… 3. Update – On/Off … 4. Hardware Monitor - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen … 5. Memory Optimization - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen … 6. Apps Live Optimization - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen …”

Actually AUTOMATIC versus MANUAL ( not on or off ) – many folks ask for that control, so again, kudos to Kerish Doctor.

Yes, duplicate listing, and many folks like to be able to find the same tool in overviews, and again in specific tools views, so kudos to Kerish Doctor.

Yes, there are many duplicate ways to access many Kerish Doctor tools.

Note that memory optimization also has 7 internal settings ( and ONLY works in the pro licensed version, not the FREE trial version, and STOPS working in the always-FREE-for-life version ) ...

… with many inner controls, including the ability to add you own selection of programs to optimize or ignore – "optimization" means set working priority for, so the program that Kerish Doctor optimizes remains most responsive up to complete memory load and lock up.

Many folks just want to finish one task before rebooting, so we tend to use an overloaded computer up to the point of lockup, rather than save our work, reboot, and restart our work in a clean computer as the one and only task – silly us, but kudos to Kerish Doctor for helping us finish stuff.

- - “… 7. Error Repair - Runs a built-in Windows app …”

Unlike other vendor’s utility programs, I know of no tool in Kerish Doctor that “… Runs a built in Windows app …” - please tell us more.

- - “… 8. Junk Cleanup - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen ... 9. PC Protection - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen ... 10. PC Control - On/Off Duplicate Listing - on Home Screen ...What menus, there is only one menu, and it gives five options to select to turn on the components. No menus is exactly the problem. No options is the problem. If you choose, the *Recommended* option - *Full Scan* there are no options. Every single thing, in a well designed program, should be accessible from that scan. You should be able to select or deselect what you want to scan - you can't. If you don't want it to scan a section, or want to bypass something, you have to do it item by item - what is that nonsense! …”

As I have mentioned, you have missed everything you seek.

Read below for answers.

- - “… So, I stand by my statement that there is no way to control what the application is doing, as there are no options ...”.

Oops, make that “… So, I stand corrected in my errant lack of observation in my first 30 seconds, I could not quickly find ways to understand and control what Kerish Doctor is doing, other than turning automatic groups of things on or off, as I could not find the dozens and hundreds and thousands of options and controls for automatic and manual behavior that are deeper within Kerish Doctor …”

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HERE’S THE SOLUTION:

I have a fix for that, something I learned 40+ years ago:

- The first time I use any new-to-me program, I use a program BACKWARDS.

That is, I start at the lowest-down and farthest-right options ...

… and I slowly, iteratively, heuristically, increasing my knowledge and awareness, work my way to the upper left.

I find that the most frequently used popular overview automatic stuff is in the upper left.

But I seldom want any new-to-me program to just bulldoze ahead without my complete understanding.

So I never START there.

I never START in the upper left.

I find the minutia of precision controls are usually deep down at the bottom, and to the right.

So I start there to see what’s possible, and I start there to see what I can turn on and off, and I start there to see what I can adjust and control.

I too spend 30 seconds in a new-to-me program.

I just spend them the exact opposite of you and most other users.

- You START upper left.

- I START bottom right.

THEN, when and only when the program is MINE, when the program fully under my understanding and control and choices, I am much more comfortable in subsequently using the program in left-to-right, top-to-bottom mode.

- - “… As I said, for someone who doesn't care what the program does as they blindly trust it - it is a good app. For someone who wants their computer to run the way they want it to - this software is not what one would want …”

I hope I have raised awareness that such a comment is the result of 30 second of inaccurate and inapropriate observation.

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.

Now really explore the program.

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Though, as the others in this thread have shared, even the default automatic mode of Kerish Doctor is flawless and positively helpful in stabilizing a dragged-down computer, so we could spend even less than 30 seconds in Kerish Doctor, and though we might not be happy because we’re not sure what Kerish Doctor did, our computer will be happy, as far as computer happiness goes, happy that Kerish Doctor works, works well, works uniquely well, with our computer to make our computer work better.

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Eddie,

You READ the "read me.txt" file. Those aren't just put there because it gives them a warn a fuzzy feeling...

Obvious, I discovered that the problem was I had just missed the deadline, that was why I couldn't get a registration key. I contacted Kerish and explained this and they kindly emailed me a license. I am quite able to READ readme.text files. Your sarcastic assumption was wrong but thanks anyway.

Update to my original question...
I took a chance and let it update the 40 components (~37MB download) and it sucessfully updated everything without reseting my reg to 'trial'. So, nevermind...

Christopher Kirouac,

Web search for, download, and install Kerish Doctor 2016 v4.6 from the software free download sites - it will work with this serial number, and update from there.
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Christopher Kirouac, 32b version 4.80 in http://www.kerish.org/en/download.php then use reg info from readme.txt (https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/kerish-doctor/get-key/)

David Brummond,

User name is NOT YOUR NAME.

The user name is:

Giveawayoftheday

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Cheryl Roberts,

Try a different web browser, try a different computer.

Keep trying.
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Tom Smigiel,

Yes, right there at the top of the GOTD offering page is says 1 year license.

It then revers to the free version which stops cleaning files and ram, but otherwise works the same.
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Hank9924,

Almost ALL programs have registration under their [ About ] screen, as Kerish Doctor does.
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Gary Kelly, exactly how I became a a Kerish D customer years ago and the best example of how the GOTD should be done IF you have the good enough product.

Frederick, I have Bitdefender and box 2. no conflicts at all.

In response to [ Robert Martin ], who asked, generally, how long can Kerish Doctor be licensed for.

Kerish Doctor sells 3-year licenses ( good for 3 PCs ) for $20 ( $2.25 per PC per year ).

The individual licenses from GOTD expire in 1 year whether we use them or not, regardless of the first use date, and therefore cannot be "stacked" one after the other since today's GOTD offering will expire on the same day a year from now for everyone.

I suggest contacting Kerish Doctor about longer-than 3 years if you want that.

Maybe Kerish Doctor can setup a continuous renewal with auto incrementing charges for additional PCs and additional years, say, $2 per year per PC ( the current is $2.25 per year per PC and we gotta renew manually ), and if we register yet another PC with the same auto incrementing licenses, it just adds another $2 per year to our outstanding credit card .

And, of course, Kerish Doctor home site can automatically eliminate charges for dead PCs, because, hey, Kerish Doctor is always sniffing out our license whenever the program is run, so if a license on a PC doesn't get used for a year, then there is a $2 credit on the account, presuming the PC is out of use, dead, stripped for parts.

( And perhaps implementing a system where we can sign in at Kerish Doctor to manage our account, and kill instances if we want, such as when we know we dismantled a computer for parts, or a customer sells their computer and we no long wish to support whomever it was sold to ).

What say, Kerish Doctor?
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infi0,

Agreed, many Kerish Doctor controls and messages are terse, unclear, ambiguous, and without useful information to help us understand and decide.

In your case, it means you are sharing a resource over the network that is NOT password protected, such as a printer, or, as I do, you are sharing a drive or directory that that can be used from another computer.

Leave it.

IObit Advanced System Care also alarms over network shares with no password protection, it is a common warning from savvy utility programs.
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In response to [ PM ], who asked if there are any downsides to Kerish Doctor.

Yes,

- - 1. It's a memory hog on 4GB RAM computers, so I turn off real-time mode and just use it manually as a tweak. tuneup, cleanup, and maintenance utility on demand.

- - 2. if it kills another program for any reason, it's not obvious how to find the kill toggle and turn it off so the other program works again.

- - 3. one user claimed it killed the Internet, though I suspect it killed malware, and the next task is to rebuild the Internet connection after the malware has been removed, a task that kerish Doctor SHOULD have anticipated and done, but maybe it will rebuild the Internet connection if the person runs Kerish Doctor multiple times.

Otherwise, it seems more powerful, less risky, and less naggy, than IObit, Glary, CCleaner, Wisecleaner, Auslogics, Ashampoo, Norton Utilities ( does Symantec even HAVE Norton Utilities updated to current competitiveness any longer ?!? ), and so on ( though I like YL Winutilities PC Clean ), but they are all different, and mostly manual toos for me, and I use all the others in manual and conservative mode, carefully selecting each line item to keep or kill.

Kerish Doctor and HDD Regenerator are the only Russian programs I recommend ( but I recommend cautious awareness regardless, and not just of Russian programs ).

Like all programs, GOTD included, I copiously check installers and the resulting programs at VirusTotal, and I take responsibility for knowing my computer well.

Kerish Doctor?

So far, so good.
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Harshil Pandey,

Download the program from Kerish directly or from any file download resource.

The free version works forever, including updates, but does not clean files, ram, and some registry entries.

Tell is how it works for you.
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jb, KD is not trying to be the ultimate swiss army knife that has all the tools one could imagine. Not having a batch uninstall feature is not a reason to downgrade the product.

Al, Not sure what you are talking about, I gave it thumbs up.
I said already said I liked the product. Just some addtl good features, hope to see in the future if poss, not expecting all. They are looking for ideas & feedback I thought. thks

in response to [ jb ],

Regarding screen flickering:

I've found screen flickering to appear different for each user, and to be caused by many things, drivers, clock speeds, overheating, and mechanical connections, as well as hardware intermittency, including outside the PC in the cabling and screen itself.

Other than using the chip maker's drivers, detuning clock speeds, adding supplemental cooling fans, and cleaning all connections, there's a limit to what any "diagnostic" software can do.

Let us know what you find.
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alternety,

The Kerish Doctor Pro license works on multiple re-installations and multiple PCs until Kerish considers it over used.

It reverts to the free version which works and updates forever and only stops cleaning files, ram, and some registry entries.
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ilikefree,

FINALLY someone who experienced misbehavior when using Kerish Doctor.

Let us know what you find to resolve the surprise.

I suggest complete uninstalling it ( manual delete if necessary ) in Safe Mode, rebooting, running free Malwarebytes AdwCleaner and other inspection and remedy programs, rebooting in between, then trying again, perhaps starting with Kerish Doctor 2016 v4.6 available from file download sites, then update from there, rebooting often.

Report back, please - it makes GOTD all the more useful for us all.

Thanks.
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Harry Rolnick, try this: https://www.kerish.org/en/support_faq.php#faq_1

Harry Rolnick,

No spaces in Giveawayoftheday

Registration name is ( NO spaces ):

Giveawayoftheday

Harry Rolnick, same problem but program seems to work

Harry Rolnick, I noticed that there was no space between 'Giveaway' and 'of' in your quote above. Is that how you actually entered it in?

Harry Rolnick, I found the answer. For 'name:, I used the name listed to get the registration code. Now I realized the name should be "Giveawayoftheday". Which I did. And a little bell rang and a sweet voice inside Kerish Doctor (the e-medical-practitioner?) told me I had succeeded.

Harry,
It's...
Giveawayoftheday
No spaces... Upper case "G"... the rest in lower case.

Peter

Harry Rolnick, cut and paste both the name and registration key in and be sure there is no space before either

VicS, most Optimization Suites are this way, IMHO: the user must be tech-savvy and selective. Although defaults in suites like IObit's Advanced SystemCare and Auslogics BoostSpeed will usually work for the average user. Even with MalwareBytes you get a lot of what cannot be absolutely labeled "false positives" but, for example, it detects "Everything Auglogics" as malware, or PUA, PUP, etc. "Potentially unwanted app or program", that sort of thing. When I've found Auslogics Software to be pretty good myself. Ditto with IObit software, they both turnout some fine products, IMHO. Point being, yeh, I agree, you have to be discerning and selective as to what you want these products to do for you. :)

Peter Hall, #22 dotkgc, use d2020 in http://www.kerish.org/en/download.php and i is 32b.

Peter Hall,

Start with Kerish Doctor 2016 v4.6 available form file download sites - the license works and you can update and upgrade form there if you care to - the earlier versions have some deprecated features that I like.

The non Pro version works and updates forever except for cleaning files, memory, and some registry keys.
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Peter Blaise, Thank you for that, will give it a try. Appreciate your assistance :-)

Donna, Once you download and unzip, the "read me" file contains a link to request the activation key by email. Came right away for me.

Surprised this isn't mentioned anywhere here; I do mostly games giveaways and I haven't opened a read me file in a long, long, time.

Donna, DOWNLOAD it. The key and instructions are in the zip file, the file with the name readme.txt!

How could you install the program if you didn't download it?

LOL

Peterlee,
You're not the dumbest dude on the planet. It took me a minute to locate it. Go the the "About" tab, and there is a place in blue print that says "Active license key." You should be good from there.

Thank you Peterlee and Gary Kelly!! I had the exact same problem and was getting very frustrated. A little more detail would have been nice... : )

Karen, I had the same problem til I changed name field to Giveawayoftheday. I assumed it wanted the name I used to request the email.

Karen,

Registration name is ( NO spaces ):

Giveawayoftheday

t800, I use both.

t800,

They're different, we all use them both.

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t800, THIS ONE * without a doubt