Norton is such a well known name when it comes to computer care that many users purchase their products without looking at alternatives. There is a very good reason why Norton™ Utilities have remained so popular. But is Norton™ Utilities truly the best choice for those looking to keep their computers in tip-top shape?

Norton™ Utilities — The Good:

For anyone needing an all-in-one program for computer maintenance, Norton™ Utilities provides everything you could ever want. Registry cleaner, startup program and services management, registry and disk defragmenter, and system monitor all come included in this product. And true to their Norton™ brand name, these utilities all feature some of the easiest to use interfaces available. This combination often is more than enough to sell people on the idea that they should purchase the Norton™ Utilities product.

Norton™ Utilities — The Bad:

Of course, there’s a downside to everything and this Norton™ product is no exception. Perhaps the biggest downside to using popular brand name products is their tendency to take the easiest path when programming. For instance, with each new release of the Windows operating system, new functions are added. This has the advantage of allowing programs to perform complex tasks easily. On the downside, however, it means that programs designed for one version of Windows will not necessarily run on a previous version. Smaller developers and open source developments often use only core functions, allowing programs to run on multiple versions of Windows.

For anyone using a Windows operating system that came out before Windows XP, Norton™ Utilities will not work. Another downside is that the product requires that you have an Internet connection in order to use it. Other than that, the requirements for running this program are nothing that modern computers cannot handle, requiring merely a 300 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM.

Norton™ Utilities — The Ugly:

If the bad points to this product were the only thing it suffered from, it would still be a great product. Unfortunately, there are some points that are just so wrong that they must be called “ugly”.

The biggest of these ugly points is that most of the utilities provided in this product, from service and startup program management, disk defragmenting, and system monitoring, are all provided by default by the Windows operating system. This redundancy seems like Norton™ just needed an excuse to charge so much for this product.

Another ugly part is that the system monitoring tools are usually activated by default. These monitoring tools, while they can add to security, can slow down a computer tremendously.

Norton™ Utilities — Is it Worth it?:

If you prefer having all of your tools in the same place, the Norton™ Utilities suite definitely gives you everything that you need to maintain your system performance. However, if you are not looking to spend your money on tools that your system already has installed and only on what you need, registry cleaners like RegCure are perfect at giving you what you lack, rather than selling you what you already have.

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As computer technology has advanced, the average user is left more and more in the dark concerning the inner workings of their computer. Computers are just expected to work and when they don’t, we’re often at a loss as to why. Many users will download programs that promise to fix their problems or increase the performance of their computer without ever knowing what the program does. Registry cleaners like System Mechanic are a perfect example of this.

System Mechanic — What it says it does:

The Windows registry consists of a bunch of files that tell your computer essential information about every program on your computer. What System Mechanic claims to do is to clean up your registry in a variety of ways in order to help speed up your computer. It also performs a number of supposedly minor optimizations designed to speed up your computer, such as disabling unused background programs and the mysterious “19 ways” it purportedly speeds up your computer.

System Mechanic – - What It Actually Does:

System Mechanic does everything it says so far as I know. Since they do not advertise what the “19 ways” are in which it speeds up your PC, it’s hard to know if they actually do anything useful. But as a registry cleaner, System Mechanic does what it should. If you hate spending time waiting on programs to finish, however, System Mechanic is not for you. It’s far from the fastest registry cleaner out there today.

Another thing I consider a downside is that it tries to be everything to everyone. We all know that no single program can do everything and make everyone happy. But System Mechanic definitely tries. It tries to have a flashy, easy to use interface, while allowing advanced users to control some actions of the program. Unfortunately, as is often the case when something tries to be everything, it doesn’t quite make the cake. Not only is it not the easiest to use registry cleaner, but it also doesn’t provide as much control over its functionality that many advanced users desire.

System Mechanic tries to be a registry cleaner, hard drive defragmenting utility, system start up editor, Internet speed booster, and security program all rolled into one. While some users might find this useful, it definitely means that this program won’t be giving you the highest quality performance in any of these areas.

System Mechanic — The Verdict:

System Mechanic is a useful program for anyone who enjoys having an all-in-one computer maintenance program. While its price is extremely steep for a registry cleaner, some users might find the added functionality that this program provides enough to make it worth it.

So while System Mechanic will definitely find a use in the homes of some individuals, anyone who is only in the market for a registry cleaner should look to other programs. RegCure is perhaps one of the best registry cleaning programs available on the market today, providing the perfect mixture of performance and functionality. Anyone looking for a registry cleaner should look at this program before deciding on System Mechanic.

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Internet Explorer is one of the world’s most popular internet browsers. Shipping with every version of Windows since Windows 95, it is used the world over by millions of people to access the internet and download files, watch movies and chat in chatrooms, and plenty of other things. But it is too easily exploited and hacked into, with hacks and exploits dating back to its release in the early nineties.

Internet Explorer has what is known as ‘toolbars’, which allow computer user’s to keep important and pertinent information and icons on the top of the browser at all times, easily reachable and clickable. And, as stated, is very, very easily exploited. Most spyware and malware and viruses attach onto Internet Explorer and install fake toolbars, fake menu options, malicious icons, bogus buttons and images, and the list goes on.

Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them, ridding Internet Explorer of bogus toolbars for good. Using RegCure to scan and fix problems is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes, unlike other, more complicated and time-consuming registry cleaners.

In fact, RegCure was voted Best Registry Cleaner of 2010 for its effectiveness and versatility. “One of most famous registry cleaners”, as one review stated. Another review stated that it was vastly superior to other registry cleaners, and that it was even ‘ahead of its time almost.’ A simple google search will yield hundreds upon hundreds of favorable reviews from near smitten reviewers.

The process is simple and easy. Any computer use from ten years old to ninety can effectively remove all infections from his or her registry with this simple and easy registry cleaner. All one needs to do to effectively clean his or her registry is first, open up RegCure. Then, as displayed in a very easy to read, very easy to spot location on left side of the window, click the SCAN button. After RegCure is finished scanning, simply hit NEXT and then FIX and all current problems are eliminated from your computer.

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Windows Explorer is the basis for Windows’ (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7) files and ‘executable’ files and commands and so forth and so on. It is also used as a search and navigational utility for computer users whom want to dig deep down into Windows to find hidden files, hard-to-find executable files, ‘script’ files, and other things the average user has no business messing with.

This service’s capabilities are easily exploitable by hackers and malicious code writers and spyware and malware programs. Windows Explorer has the ability to block a computer user from accessing a certain program or deleting a certain file, making a virtual playground for anyone with the know-how and criminal intent. Computer users all over the world have stumbled across mysterious files that cannot be deleted, prank screensavers that require unknown passwords to remove, and so forth and so on.

Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them. Using RegCure to scan and fix probles is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes, unlike other, more complicated and time-consuming registry cleaners.

In fact, RegCure was voted Best Registry Cleaner of 2010 for its effectiveness and versatility. “One of most famous registry cleaners”, as one review stated. Another review stated that it was vastly superior to other registry cleaners, and that it was even ‘ahead of its time almost.’ A simple google search will yield hundreds upon hundreds of favorable reviews from near smitten reviewers.

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You see them every day: advertisements that stress the importance of removing your computer’s ‘junk’ and temporary files, and that the program advertised will provide this removal, all in one swoop. But what these advertisements don’t tell you is that, to truly have ‘speed’ and ‘effectiveness’, you need a spotless registry. An un-exploitable registry.

What these PC Cleaner programs do is not enough to truly speed up your computer. For the most part, all a program such as this will do is remove small chunks and pieces of junk from your computer’s registry and temporary internet and Windows files, but not ALL of it. There is no point in having temporary speed if one’s registry is riddled with holes. Think of it as a sinking ship: it’ll stay afloat for a while, and can probably continue to sail off into the distance, but sooner or later it WILL sink. This is inevitable, and unfortunately hundreds of thousands of computer users are forced to confront this fact the hard way, by buying overpriced and underdeveloped PC Booster programs.

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Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them. Using RegCure to scan and fix problems is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes, unlike other, more complicated and time-consuming registry cleaners.

In fact, RegCure was voted Best Registry Cleaner of 2010 for its effectiveness and versatility. “One of most famous registry cleaners”, as one review stated. Another review stated that it was vastly superior to other registry cleaners, and that it was even ‘ahead of its time almost.’ A simple Google search will yield hundreds upon hundreds of favorable reviews from near smitten reviewers.

The process is simple and easy. Any computer use from ten years old to ninety can effectively remove all infections from his or her registry with this simple and easy registry cleaner. All one needs to do to effectively clean his or her registry is first, open up RegCure. Then, as displayed in a very easy to read, very easy to spot location on left side of the window, click the SCAN button. After RegCure is finished scanning, simply hit NEXT and then FIX and all current problems are eliminated from your computer.

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You see them every day: advertisements that stress the importance of your computer’s speed and effectiveness, and that the program advertised will provide this ‘speed’ and ‘effectiveness’, all in one swoop. But what these advertisements don’t tell you is that, to truly have ‘speed’ and ‘effectiveness’, you need a spotless registry. An unexploitable registry.

What these PC Optimizer programs do is not enough to truly speed up your computer. For the most part, all a program such as this will do is remove small chunks and pieces of junk from your computer’s registry and temporary internet and Windows files, but not ALL of it. There is no point in having temporary speed if one’s registry is riddled with holes. Think of it as a sinking ship: it’ll stay afloat for a while, and can probably continue to sail off into the distance, but sooner or later it WILL sink. This is inevitable, and unfortunately hundreds of thousands of computer users are forced to confront this fact the hard way, by buying overpriced and underdeveloped PC Booster programs.

Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them. Using RegCure to scan and fix probles is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes, unlike other, more complicated and time-consuming registry cleaners.

In fact, RegCure was voted Best Registry Cleaner of 2010 for its effectiveness and versatility. “One of most famous registry cleaners”, as one review stated. Another review stated that it was vastly superior to other registry cleaners, and that it was even ‘ahead of its time almost.’ A simple google search will yield hundreds upon hundreds of favorable reviews from near smitten reviewers.

The process is simple and easy. Any computer use from ten years old to ninety can effectively remove all infections from his or her registry with this simple and easy registry cleaner. All one needs to do to effectively clean his or her registry is first, open up RegCure. Then, as displayed in a very easy to read, very easy to spot location on left side of the window, click the SCAN button. After RegCure is finished scanning, simply hit NEXT and then FIX and all current problems are eliminated from your computer.

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Windows Script Host is Microsoft’s way of running programs and actions within Windows automatically. Think of it as a music playlist. Windows Script Host uses javascript and other coding languages, leaving it open to exploits and vulnerabilities. Hackers and malicious code writers have been compromising Windows Script Host for years, exploiting its automatic nature just as they do with the list of the programs Windows reads and executes upon startup.

Recently, shortly after Windows XP was introduced in 2001, Microsoft introduced a way to ‘digitally sign’ the Windows Script Host files and processes, preventing unsigned files and processes from being executed or permitted in the Script list for future use by malicious code writers or hackers or spyware and malware programs. Alas, even though this is a step in the right direction from Microsoft and the makers of the javascript coding language, it still does not guarantee a computer user’s safety against current or future exploits.

Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them, stopping the Windows Script Host exploit ability and infection once and for all. Using RegCure to scan and fix problems is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes, unlike other, more complicated and time-consuming registry cleaners.

In fact, RegCure was voted Best Registry Cleaner of 2010 for its effectiveness and versatility. “One of most famous registry cleaners”, as one review stated. Another review stated that it was vastly superior to other registry cleaners, and that it was even ‘ahead of its time almost.’ A simple google search will yield hundreds upon hundreds of favorable reviews from near smitten reviewers.

The process is simple and easy. Any computer use from ten years old to ninety can effectively remove all infections from his or her registry with this simple and easy registry cleaner. All one needs to do to effectively clean his or her registry is first, open up RegCure. Then, as displayed in a very easy to read, very easy to spot location on left side of the window, click the SCAN button. After RegCure is finished scanning, simply hit NEXT and then FIX and all current problems are eliminated from your computer.

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A DNS, or ‘Domain Name Server’, is used to route traffic throughout the Internet. A user types a URL (address) into his or her web browser and the Domain Name Server sorts the information out from there. If your computer is infected by a virus or spyware or malware then it is very likely that the infected file(s) will, at one point or another, try to block your internet browser from accessing certain sites. ‘No Internet Connection’ is the most common error message. These files lay dormant in your registry and wait until a certain point or time when your accessing a certain website, or a program that utilizes the internet, and blocks all incoming information, making it seem as if the user has no internet connection at all.

Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them, stopping the ‘DNS Error’ once and for all. Using RegCure to scan and fix probles is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes.

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You see them every day: advertisements that stress the importance of your computer’s speed and effectiveness, and that the program advertised will provide this ‘speed’ and ‘effectiveness’, all in one swoop. But what these advertisements don’t tell you is that, to truly have ‘speed’ and ‘effectiveness’, you need a spotless registry. An un-exploitable registry.

What these PC Booster programs do is not enough to truly speed up your computer. For the most part, all a program such as this will do is remove small chunks and pieces of junk from your computer’s registry and temporary internet and Windows files, but not ALL of it. There is no point in having temporary speed if one’s registry is riddled with holes. Think of it as a sinking ship: it’ll stay afloat for a while, and can probably continue to sail off into the distance, but sooner or later it WILL sink. This is inevitable, and unfortunately hundreds of thousands of computer users are forced to confront this fact the hard way, by buying overpriced and underdeveloped PC Booster programs.

Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them, stopping the Windows Script Host exploit-ability and infection once and for all. Using RegCure to scan and fix problems is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes, unlike other, more complicated and time-consuming registry cleaners.

In fact, RegCure was voted Best Registry Cleaner of 2010 for its effectiveness and versatility. “One of most famous registry cleaners”, as one review stated. Another review stated that it was vastly superior to other registry cleaners, and that it was even ‘ahead of its time almost.’ A simple google search will yield hundreds upon hundreds of favorable reviews from near smitten reviewers.

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Microsoft’s popular internet browser Internet Explorer is dubbed ‘iexplorer.exe’ in almost every version of Windows (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7). Every program is given a title such as this, with an extension (the words following the period) that denotes the kind of file it is (i.e., exe is an ‘executable’ file, doc is a ‘document’, wmv is a ‘windows media’, and so on and so forth).

Due to the popularity of Microsoft Windows and the average computer user being inept to the intricacies of viruses and exploits and vulnerabilities, the stakes are high for a hacker or virus writer to gain access to thousands or even millions of computers in a very short amount of time.

What IEXPLORE.EXE does is take Internet Explorer’s relatively well-known IEXPLORE.EXE name and simple removes the R before the ‘exe’ extension. The common user is unaware of this small and nearly universally overlookable detail, thus setting the stage for the unsuspecting user to mistake this file for his or her actual Internet Explorer. Once this file is clicked on and opened, the virus runs rampant in the background of a user’s computer. Registry files are compromised. Windows startup files are compromised. Nearly the ENTIRE Windows system is compromised. The user has no idea this is happening due to the covert nature of the virus since it runs in the background, never fully showing itself.

Here’s where RegCure steps in: As noted by several prominent reviewers, RegCure scans a user’s registry for all possible infections and vulnerabilities, then promptly fixes them, stopping the iexplore.exe virus once and for all. sing RegCure to scan and fix probles is easy, and anyone can do it. The process takes less than ten minutes.

In fact, RegCure was voted Best Registry Cleaner of 2010 for its effectiveness and versatility. “One of most famous registry cleaners”, as one review stated.

The process is simple and easy. Any computer use from ten years old to ninety can effectively remove all infections from his or her registry with this simple and easy registry cleaner. All one needs to do to effectively clean his or her registry is first, open up RegCure. Then, as displayed in a very easy to read, very easy to spot location on left side of the window, click the SCAN button. After RegCure is finished scanning, simply hit NEXT and then FIX and all current problems are eliminated from your computer.

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