OPINION:System Mech 7 professional

I'm curious what others think of Iolo's System Mechanic 7 Professional. I bought a new copy (unopened) for 7.00 and have heard both great and terrible things about it.

Look forward to hearing what others have to say.

HCE

 

I've used System Mechanic (not the professional version, which I believe adds malware protection) since about version 4, and have always loved it.

That is until the latest update, to 7.1.12, I think, which stopped working altogether here. I've been dealing with their support staff, via apparently automated responses, for a couple weeks and have been unable to resolve the problem. If anyone has a similar experience and has successfully resolved it, I'd love to hear how.

When it's working, however, it's a superb utilities package. I can't speak to the anti-virus, anti-spyware functions, as I've never used them.

 

As far as feedbacks I have received, including my personal...SM 7 is a crap. Its memory hog, uses too much precious system resources and still horribly slow.

I have been using the SM 6, and reverted back to it again after trying SM 7 for few days. Though I do not keep any option of this software running at the task bar...just use it on the basis of the immediate need.

 

I tried one of the earlier versions a few years ago. Not worth the money IMO. There are too many freeware programs to ever spend money on this type of software.

 

A few previous comments on System mechanic
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=133685&highlight=system+mechanic