Overview:

System Mechanic is able to provide the most complete approach to PC care because it integrates 50+ diagnostic, repair, and optimization features into one easy-to-use interface. Plus it leverages unique intelligence provided by iolo Labs' continuously updated Tune-up Definitions to custom tailor its diagnosis and repair to your specific system configuration.

More than 50 features sounds like a lot - and it is! - but System Mechanic is designed so that you can quickly get to the repairs and optimizations you need, skip those you don't, and explore as much or as little about your PC as you'd like. For example, use System Mechanic to find and remove junk and clutter, which is one of the most insidious factors in Windows performance degradation and a threat to your privacy.

Features:

Designated Drivers
Keeps your PC running swiftly and stably by automatically installing critical driver updates. Device drivers are files filled with critical information that instruct your computer and the devices connected to it how to operate together effectively. All of the hardware on a PC—from the keyboard and mouse to the CPU and Wi-Fi adapter—require an up-to-date driver to keep them in good working order. Because they perform such essential tasks, keeping your drivers updated and in good working condition is central to ensuring your PC's overall stability and performance. However, the process of manually updating drivers can be frustrating and time-consuming.

SSD Accelerator
Streamlines, optimizes, and prolongs the life of modern solid-state drives, keeping them running at peak performance. Although solid state drives (SSDs) enjoy a significant speed advantage over traditional hard disk drives, it doesn't mean they are impervious to slowdown or degradation over time. With regular, everyday use, many users have found that these drives begin to suffer from incremental performance loss.

To resolve this problem, iolo's engineers designed SSD Accelerator to proactively optimize solid state drives to keep them running at the peak of speed and efficiency. SSD Accelerator has also been designed to work together with System Mechanic's other drive optimization tools and its patented ActiveCare technology in order to ensure that all of your data storage drives are automatically optimized for maximum performance and longevity on a regular basis.

Program Accelerator
Speeds up overall program responsiveness by re-aligning all of a program's dependent files on the hard drive. The problem: program misalignment is a major system slowdown caused by Windows and software updates. It leads to progressively slower program launch and responsiveness as dependent files become scattered all over the hard drive.

Disk defragmenters make it worse, blindly compacting and separating related files even more! Program Accelerator's first-of-its-kind patent-pending technology adds sophistication to enhance defrag tools, such as DriveAccelerator and move related files back together Bottom line: Program Accelerator jump-starts your sluggish programs by fully re-aligning your whole PC file system.

CRUDD Remover
Commonly Redundant or Unnecessary Decelerators and Destabilizers (CRUDD) Remover helps identify and eliminate duplicate programs that clog your system. "More programs, more problems..." In addition to all the programs you install yourself, there's the software that came with your PC that you've probably never used, as well as any number of programs that may have installed themselves on your computer without your knowledge!

Removing unneeded programs speeds up a PC significantly. The CRUDD Remover's expert intelligence takes the hassle and guesswork out of finding, classifying, and presenting them all, so you can choose to remove unnecessary software that's bloating your system.

Whole Home Licensing
Now, keep all your household PCs running at maximum performance with just a single license of System Mechanic! Gone is the costly and arbitrary restriction of only 1 to 3 PCs per license. As more and more of us are reusing older PCs and adding new PCs for other family members, iolo decided it was time to reward customers with the Whole Home License, empowering families with many PCs in their household to keep them all running at full speed and reliability. Get more performance and more value with the first-ever software license that is good for every PC in your single family household.

Internet Connection Repair
Gets you back on the web! We've all experienced the frustration of being abruptly disconnected from the internet — usually right in the middle of something important — even with broadband! System Mechanic's new Internet Connection Repair technology detects bad connections and uses a battery of proprietary technology to not only repair and reconnect your computer, but also ensure the connection is as clean, fast, and reliable as possible.

Tune-up Definitions
It's the first technology of its kind and a critical part of System Mechanic's automatic weekly intelligence updates. Tune-up Definitions allow System Mechanic to individually tailor its diagnosis, repair, and optimization tools for each unique PC configuration, and provide personalized solutions to emerging performance threats using patented ActiveCare technology. This makes System Mechanic significantly more effective (and safer) than other PC tune-up products.

DriveAccelerator
The fast and powerful disk defrag tool is re-engineered to work hand in hand with the patent-pending technology of the new Program Accelerator to completely optimize your hard drives and critical data for speed and reliability.

• Fully refreshed for even faster overall performance
• Redesigned to work in full concert with the new Program Accelerator
• Uses ultra-safe double-data security techniques to fully safe-guard your important files
• Fully incorporates all the new Windows 7 SuperFetch updates resulting in even faster Windows startup

EnergyBooster
Boost speed by turning off unused background programs. Perfect for gamers, video and sound engineers, artists, web designers... or any serious computer user who requires raw, fast performance -- instantly. Frees up system memory and CPU resources to give Windows additional horsepower. Uses iolo Labs' Tune-up Definitions and user-defined profiles to identify background programs and services that can be temporarily shut down.

Total Registry Revitalizer
Repair, compact, defragment, and backup your Windows registry in one step. Integrates all of System Mechanic's powerful registry tools to provide complete and seamless all-in-one care for the Windows registry, performing the entire battery of critical repair, maintenance, and optimization procedures in one step. This tool also leverages System Mechanic's dramatically improved technology with up to 5 times higher problem-detection rate, improved overall speed and efficiency of scans, and enhanced reporting that provides more detailed scope of errors.

Incinerator for Recycle Bin
Permanently wipes files in the Windows Recycle Bin, so they can never be recovered. Incinerator technology is now integrated into the Windows Recycle Bin, providing you with the choice of standard file deletion or the Department of Defense 5220-22M compliant technique for maximum security when emptying the Recycle Bin.

System Mechanic Jump List
System Mechanic is certified fully compatible with Windows 7 and supports new Windows 7 functionality, such as Jump Lists. The System Mechanic Jump List gives you instant access to frequently needed information and features, such as system status, Memory Mechanic, Energy Booster, and more. The latest version allows you to launch a full scan and repair straight from your desktop.

PC Health Status Gadget
The PC Health Status Gadget offers an at-a-glance overview of your PC's health status - right on your desktop.
Provides real-time reports on system health, security, and overall status. Includes a running list of recently performed repairs and optimizations, and offers quick access to commonly used tools, such as Memory Mechanic and the new EnergyBooster.

Startup Optimizer
Start Windows significantly faster by eliminating unneeded or malicious start up programs. The vastly expanded knowledgebase of Tune-up Definitions that includes thousands of new programs and services researched by iolo Labs makes the Startup Optimizer tool reduce Windows boot times like never before.

Memory Mechanic
Instantly defragments RAM and liberates resources held captive by memory leaks. System Mechanic's Memory Defragmentation tool is designed not only to reassemble your RAM into neat, contiguous order for significant performance gains, but also to hunt down and release all of the resources held captive by memory leaks within sloppy programs. It's been reengineered to work up to 85% faster and to find and eliminate up to 25% more memory leaks, providing more performance than ever.

Privacy Cleaner
Securely wipes away all traces of your personal and confidential computer activity. Better than "clearing the cache," it uses military-grade Incinerator data shredding technology to safely and permanently whisk away the trail of activity left in over 45 locations by Windows, web browsers, media players, and more.

Registry Tuner
Based on extensive research from iolo Labs, System Mechanic's registry cleanup and repair technology has been dramatically improved:

• Up to 5 times higher problem-detection rate compared to previous versions
• Improved overall speed and efficiency of scans
• Improved problem reporting provides more detailed scope of errors

All-in-one PC Cleanup PowerTool
All-in-One PC Cleanup has been greatly enhanced with additional junk file patterns, new ways of detecting and removing insidious system clutter, and improved scan speeds.

• Removes new file patterns exclusive to Windows 7, Vista, and the latest XP service pack
• Removes clutter from all major web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera
• Removes clutter from all major online chat programs, such as AIM, Skype, Yahoo, MSN, and more
• Removes clutter from all major web toolbars, such as Google, Yahoo, and more

Smarter Boot-Time Tune-ups
Some of the most important Windows system files such as the page file, the Registry hives, and the master file table, are locked by Windows and can never be defragmented using conventional defragmenting tools, but System Mechanic's Boot-Time Defragmentation can defragment these special files conveniently before Windows loads.

Now, all of System Mechanic's boot-time operations come with a series of prompts and options that offer you increased control in order to avoid inopportune delays while starting up the PC. You can set up black-out times during the day where no boot-time tasks will be performed, and new prompts at PC startup give you the ability to run or postpone boot-time tasks at that time.

Plus, hundreds of overall system enhancements throughout for dramatically improved speed
The whole System Mechanic product has been refreshed, streamlined, and optimized so that it does the job of keeping your PC running fast as effortlessly, automatically and transparently as possible. Plus, all these exciting new features and enhancements are available no matter how you choose to use System Mechanic: whether you let it fix and speed up your PC automatically with ActiveCare or the All-in-one Tools... or dig in and use the Classic Individual Tool.