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Getting Started with System Mechanic

Over time and with regular use, PCs slowly degrade: slow performance, strange error messages, program lockups, crashes at the worst possible time—we’ve all experienced it. And this is why iolo created System Mechanic®—to fix the many, wide-ranging causes of these problems and prevent them from happening again in the future.

Registry Cleaners: Snake Oil or PC Panacea?

Many people report advertisements for so-called “registry cleaners” popping up all over the web these days. These cleaner-programs are cleverly positioned as the one-click cure to any number of creative computer ailments, from general annoyances to outright machine failure.

iolo’s System Mechanic Ultimate Defense Offers Crucial Password Security with ByePass

Many of the world’s largest companies that consumers deal with daily have proven incapable of protecting personal data, including Anthem Insurance, Sony, Yahoo, Target, Home Depot, eBay, Facebook, WWE Network, Zappos, Evernote, Sonic and LinkedIn. Hackers even forced the resignation of the Equifax CEO when they obtained the personal data of over 145 million U.S. consumers, including the credit card numbers of hundreds of thousands of people.

How to Thwart Online Tracking and Protect Vulnerable Passwords

“Digital fingerprinting” is a method of identity tracking that makes it appallingly easy for online entities to examine the bits of data you leave behind on websites and figure out huge amounts of information about you, including your online purchases, income, debt, videos watched, web searches, vacation habits and much more. Even VPNs cannot stop […]

Programs Hoard RAM: What Can You Do About It?

Today’s complex applications tend to be flawed in a way that compromises your available memory (RAM): they are good at commandeering RAM when they need it, but terrible at letting go once the app no longer requires as much. This accumulation of trapped memory—RAM that runs away from you—often occurs when certain programs are still running but idle.

Clean out System-Clogging Clutter with PC Cleanup

Remove dangerous computer clutter with just one click using System Mechanic’s greatly enhanced all-in-one PC Cleanup tool.

Liberate Memory Held Captive by Greedy Programs

We all know computers get slower over weeks, months, and years of use, but have you ever noticed how your PC starts off fast after a fresh restart, but then gets increasingly sluggish the same day, sometimes after only a few minutes of use?