This product is packaged in a retail dvd. It is retail box product in a dvd style case. Retail box software is sold at retail stores. It comes in a factory sealed retail box with the CD or DVD, plus the software license key and manuals where provided by the software manufacturer. Retail box software comes with full installation support from the manufacturer.
Registry Mechanic offers easy-to-use optimization tools to speed up and improve the stability of your Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP PC. Normal daily computer use, installing and uninstalling software, and surfing the Internet can cause corrupt registry entries that slow or even crash your PC. Regardless of your level of expertise, Registry Mechanic safely cleans, repairs, and optimizes the Windows registry and automatically backs up changes for future recovery. Now includes essential fixes to Windows security loopholes--wipe your Internet history, digitally shred your personal information, and bleach free hard drive space.
Features:
Registry Mechanic offers easy-to-use optimization tools to speed up and improve the stability of your Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP PC
Safely scans and cleans and repairs invalid entries in your Windows Registry to minimize crashes and error messages
Improves performance and stability by removing orphaned references in your Windows registry
Registry Compacting optimizes system performance by analyzing and rebuilding and compressing the registry to remove gaps and corrupt keys
Registry Monitor observes changes to your Windows registry and alerts you when a specified number of changes have been made to key areas of the registry
Easy-to-Use Tools to Speed up Your PC
Optimize Your Registry and Speed up Your PC
With Registry Mechanic you can safely clean, repair and optimize your Windows registry with a few simple mouse clicks! Problems with the Windows registry are a common cause of Windows crashes, slow performance and error messages. By regularly using a registry cleaner to fix registry errors your system will be faster, more stable and system performance will improve without expensive hardware upgrades. Learn more about the importance of a clean registry with our registry insight.
Registry Mechanic uses a high-performance detection algorithm to quickly identify missing and invalid references in your Windows registry. Normal daily use, installing and uninstalling software, missing or corrupt hardware drivers, and surfing the Internet can corrupt registry entries--slowing your PC down and even crashing it.
With a few easy steps, Registry Mechanic will scan your entire registry for any invalid entries in the Windows registry and provide a detailed list of all registry errors found. You can then choose to selectively clean each item or automatically repair them all. For your convenience and protection, Registry Mechanic makes a backup of any repairs made so that you can easily recover any changes if needed.
New--Protect Your Internet Privacy
Registry Mechanic helps to protect your Internet privacy by ensuring all traces of your online Internet and computer activities are permanently erased and unrecoverable on your PC. Information from every website you visit from your computer is stored and recorded in hidden Windows locations including temporary files, cookies, the system registry and the index.dat file. Web browsers only provide partial privacy protection by allowing some temporary Internet browsing files and cookies to be deleted, but they do not clean data out of all hidden files nor do they delete the history securely.
Bonus--Permanently Delete Files and Bleach Unused Hard Disk Space
Registry Mechanic, now includes secure file shredding to keep all of your personal and sensitive data away from prying eyes. It also bleaches your free hard disk space for extra protection. Just because you emptied your Windows Recycle Bin does not mean your documents and files are gone. Using simple recovery software, anyone can easily restore these previously "deleted" files. Registry Mechanic ensures that your deleted files stay deleted by bleaching your free hard disk space.
What's New?
Advanced performance and system monitoring technology delivers effective results.
Cleans the Windows registry to speed up your PC.
Optimizes Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP performance.
New--Protects Internet privacy and personal information.
New--Securely deletes files from your PC.
New--Bleaches free space and deleted files using Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220.22-M) making the data unrecoverable using regular file recovery methods.
New--Plug-ins clean the history of 100+ third-party programs, including chat, image viewers, P2P applications and more.
New--Scheduler allows you to set and forget, optimizing your system for optimal performance and protecting your privacy online.
Registry Mechanic Software Features:
Speeds up your PC and improves your Windows 7 Windows Vista, and Windows XP experience.
Optimizes performance by scanning and repairing invalid registry entries to fix freezes, crashes, and slowdowns.
Removes orphaned registry references to improve performance and stability.
Performance Monitor provides options to boost system speed.
Organizes and compacts your registry to increase system efficiency.
System Monitor assesses your PC's start up and shut down times, highlighting potential issues.
Tune up services optimize your PC performance and provide better start-up times by turning off non-essential Windows services.
Customizable ignore lists allow you to prevent specific items from being detected and repaired.
No-Hassle, Worry-Free, Performance Booster:
Backs up any repairs made, so that you can restore at any time.
Easily repairs, cleans, and optimizes your Windows registry in just a few clicks.
Automatically improves system performance with a set of tweaks and fixes applied to the Windows registry.
Guards Your Online and Personal Information:
Protects your Internet privacy by purging activity from web browsers, chat programs, and other software lists.
Securely shreds your personal files and confidential data from your computer.
Bleaches unused hard drive space. making deleted files unrecoverable.
Additional Features:
Smart Updates silently and automatically install product upgrades to help ensure continual access to the powerful optimization tools.
24/7 Support available For full details and to access support, please visit http://www.pctools.com/support/
Operates in 17 languages.
System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP SP2 (32bit), Windows Vista SP1 (32/64 bit), Windows 7 (32/64 bit)
Hard Disk Space: 30 MB of free hard disk space
Internet Access: 56 Kbps modem or faster and Internet service provider account required for Internet access
Optical Drive: CD-ROM or DVD drive
Note: Internet access is required to register the product and receive product updates
Mailing List
Sign up to receive our current pricing via email once a month
Pros: Very strong registry cleaner with many features that add to ease of use...
Cons: Does not have many features beyond registry cleaning...
The Verdict: Strong at registry cleaning but does not measure up in the utilities department...Summary: Registry Mechanic is an efficient, user-friendly program. It is very easy to install and spells out important information about the nature of each error, even color-coding them so any user can understand the severity.