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Speed & Performance: How Fast is My Computer?

How fast is my computer? To answer that, you must know the processor speed and RAM. Discover the various ways that you can check your performance!

Simple Ways To Check Computer Performance

Is your PC feeling sluggish? It’s better to get to the source right away. Discover some ways to check and improve performance on your computer.

sAntivirus Removal Guide

Need to remove SAntivirus? Follow these steps for a hassle-free uninstallation process. Learn how to remove SAntivirus efficiently.

Review: Avast Antivirus vs. CCleaner

Two popular tune-up utilities available on the market today are Avast Antivirus and CCleaner Professional Plus. While there are plenty of reasons to compare Avast to Ccleaner, in the final analysis, iolo System Mechanic® is capable of providing superior solutions for all. Below is an Avast Antivirus review, along with a closer look at CCleaner. When comparing both to iolo System Mechanic, they come up short in a few ways.

Protect Yourself from Invasive Digital Fingerprinting

Online advertisers have in recent years pivoted from tracking cookies to a much more sophisticated—and largely invisible—method of data mining that acquires highly detailed information about your computer and the ways you use it to determine how best to sell to you. This significantly more invasive form of digital profiling is known as fingerprinting. Far from just the innocuous placement of targeted ads in your web browser, fingerprinting can be used to determine facts about you ranging from how many children you have in college, to which make and model of vehicles you and your family drive, to where and when you are likely to be away on vacation.

Privacy Guardian Online Privacy Protection

What you do online isn’t private. Without Privacy Guardian, companies and individuals can acquire enormous amounts of very specific information about you—your digital fingerprint—based on what you do on the internet, and much of this data can be used against you in various ways.

Phoenix 360: A One-Two Punch for Fighting Modern Malware

It is more essential than ever nowadays to protect your PC with real-time AV software that can block new and existing malware threats. Yet no AV engine, no matter how effective in general, is perfect.

Phoenix 360 Quick Start Guide

Phoenix 360 is the ultimate package to optimize speed, remove malware, enhance online privacy, secure passwords and simplify login across devices.

System Mechanic Wins PC Mag Editors’ Choice Award

System Mechanic® from iolo has won the PC Magazine Editors’ Choice Award for best Windows® utility. This is the eighth such award the editors at PC Magazine have bestowed upon System Mechanic, writing, “This excellent tune-up utility improves your PC’s performance by defragging the hard drive, deleting junk files, tweaking CPU and RAM usage in real time, and executing other computer-enhancing tasks. The latest version improves several longtime features, while adding a revamped, attractive interface.”

Unlock the Full Potential of System Mechanic

One of System Mechanic’s most sophisticated and industry-respected features is something customers often overlook—the Help Files. The Help Files is a clearly written guide that is always right at your fingertips.

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