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Topic: PC Pitstop Optimize? |
Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 4:21 pm |
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Earthlink (my ISP) spammed me with an offer of a free Optimizer scan. I took the scan which then informed me of all crappy ways my computer was set up and all the things bogging it down and all the the wonderful things that it would do to my computer and internet connection to make it a zillion times faster & more efficient .............. after I bought the product and registered it. Which I have not done.
Although I feel stupid for getting taken this far with their sucker deal, I am wondering if anybody has experience with the product and if it delivers on any of its promises---it's not the first time I've heard of it. |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 6:22 pm
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It is a legitimate software product that like many similar products only scans and reports problems until you purchase a license. There is nothing nefarious about it. If you got a printout or screen capture/saved page of the results you can decide if it is worth paying them to "fix" the alleged problems. Maybe you can even fix them yourself, if you have the parts. In the meantime you can use Google Groups to see if anybody else is using the product and what they are finding out about it.
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 25 Apr 2006 2:28 am
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There are a lot of "PC software repair" programs around. Some do pretty good but you have to be careful with all of them as their "fixes" can actually "break" the PC.
I had one customer that installed Registry Mechanic and he let it automatically clean his PC, including registry, startup, etc. After it got done he wound up with several programs that would not run and a couple of missing startup items that were legitimate and needed to be in the startup. I was able to fix a couple with "System Restore" and the rest I had to reinstall the programs. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 25 Apr 2006 11:33 am
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Yeah. I'm not computer savvy so even the most rudimetary programs can mess me up---the engineers who come up with these programs seem incapable of sufficiently dumbing down the interface and consequently it seems that somewhere along the line you get asked questions l;ike "are you sure you want to delete these 117 items?" and my answer is always "hell no I'm not sure!" Nowadays I cancel and forget the whole thing--in the past I would eenie meenie and guess at the right answer. I've been lucky to never totally disable my computer but I would just as soon leave well enough alone. I will be installing my new hard drive soon and if all goes well I will have a nice clean XP install and this time I will try to resist the desire to acquire all sorts of programs and non-essential stuff.
I'll skip the Pit Stop thing for now. |
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