Fix-It Utilities 12 Professional [Old Version]

Fix-It utilities seems to do a fine, if temporary, job of speeding up network browsing time and PC performance issues. But everytime you want to fix a problem, you are asked whether you want to register the software. If you dont, the program closes.

This is the worst thing ever. Now that Ive foolishly installed it, my computer gives me a blue screen and I get a pop-up saying your computer was unable to start. My computer was a little slow but otherwise fine before I wrecked it with this buggy software. There are tons of other reviews on here where people have had an experience similar to mine, and I am shocked that this software is allowed on the market when it ruins peoples computers! I might as well have just surfed some free porn and let a virus eat my computer. At least it would have been free. Im surprised this company doesnt have a class action lawsuit on its hands!

Buy one of their product once and the will hound with special offer E-mails twice a day for the rest of your life! Unsubscribing from their mailing list does no good, the SPAM just keeps coming!

My experience with Fix-It Utilities 12 Professional was just fine, but I have to admit that my needs for it as yet have been relatively simple. I installed this on an old laptop specifically to use the Shredder function to wipe the harddrive before recycling in the computer. The program installed just fine and I proceeded to wipe everything. It performed this task with relative ease. I cannot speak to the other aspects of the program but this part of it worked just fine.

The DVD loaded up pretty nicely. The scanning takes forever so you might want to set it to overnight. The most useful service was the registry cleaner. Decent product.

It was on sale and I thought it might be worth it to keep my 4 Win7 machines clean and fix the occassion problem--but there was not problem at the moment.

Fix It used to be my go to program when I or friends had registry errors. NOW, because Avanquest decided to charge by the year or two, I find myself looking for a suitable replacement. The replacement will not be hard to find.

This review is for, Avanquest Fix-It Utilities 12 Professional First off I should have looked up any problems this program may be having. If you do a Google search for problems, youll see there really isnt any real good solutions to problems, users are having with this. I installed the full version of this, it does give you options to choose what you want to load. After I started the program I wanted to download the latest updates and virus definitions. Told me it couldnt connect to get updates, ok server was busy or something, at 2 am in the morning? Finally, after several tries and a day or so later, I was able to download the updates. Right away I noticed my shut down time nearly tripled, so I checked the registry for any changes in the line for my shut down values, couldnt find any changes there. Then I ran all the utilities in this program. There are 3 barrels that tell you the health of your computer, but one was reading only 38%. Why was that I thought after I had just ran all the utilities? So I did a Google search, sure enough, it seems other users were having the same problem. None of the 2 answers users received worked to change the 38% reading in the barrel. I didnt see a real improvement in my Windows 7, Triple Core laptop so I decided this program was wasting space on my hard drive and decided to delete it. No problem, Control Panel and uninstall program right? NOT! It couldnt proceed with removing this hard drive waster of a program, because of background programs still running. So I checked for any Avanquest Fix-It utilities programs running and shut them down, now I can delete this right? NOT! To end this review, Ill tell you how to delete this. Boot into Safe Mode of your computer. Go to the programs files (X86)folder where you will find the folder for this program, rename it old or whatever you like. Reboot into regular mode and manually remove the folder you renamed. An error will come up maybe after you delete this folder, saying it couldnt find it. Run Ccleaner and the registry cleaner thats in it. This should remove any further error messages. But after finally figuring out how to delete this my shut down time was still triple as it once was. You can restore to an earlier version of Windows 7, which some people may ask why I didnt do that in the first place? Because I feel that still would have left pieces of this program in my registry, slowing my laptop down. It was due time for me to do a clean install of Windows 7 and now my laptop is once again running like new.

It’s ok

I put the word Professional in caps because I believe this product is for people who really know and understand computers and the OS. I let Fix it clean out unwanted or unneeded files and then couldnt open some of my regularly used programs and had to re install them. If you know what you are doing and take the time to review the list supplied you can find a lot of junk that will help make your computer better, fix issues and make it faster. But if you dont know what you are doing, I think it can be dangerous. Id suggest NOT going with the default lists and options but instead to examine and research everything before you allow Fix-It to fix it.