System Mechanic 6

stephend12 · 12-14-2005, 12:10 PM

Anybody experience problems with this version of System Mechanic?

I installed and ran it. BIG mistake. Unlike previous versions, Sys.Mech 6 default setting takes the liberty of cleaning/fixing your PC without the option of viewing and selecting what's to be deleted. I was blocked from Ebay and other sites. Sys.Mech. wiped completely all temp.files and cookies and God knows what else! My PC then wouldn't boot. Thankfully, System Restore in safe mode saved me.

I changed Sys.Mech. startup options to prevent another disaster. If you really want to upgrade from Sys.Mech 5 be very careful of what Iolo calls 'clutter cleaning' I can't understand how Iolo launched this without running some trials with some of it's target audience

Rob Williams · 12-16-2005, 10:47 AM

Ouch. I have used SysMech 6 and found it far from perfect. You should definitely e-mail them though with your problem, that way they can see where it went wrong.

T-Shirt · 03-05-2006, 05:19 AM

SM6 kind of took a wrong turn, trying to do too much, too automatically, the same thing that ruined Symantec s system works

At a time when many people need a high quality, system repair and monitoring utility, the biggest and best known have gone overboard with autofixes sometime making simple problems much worse.

Rob Williams · 03-05-2006, 09:48 AM

Yeah, I would have to agree. I haven't heard one good thing about SM6 since it's been released... so I certainly hope they fix what they did for the next version.

EGPnBlueBell · 03-21-2006, 01:11 PM

Is there a better alternative?

12-14-2005, 12:10 PM	#1
stephend12 Obliviot Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1	System Mechanic 6 Anybody experience problems with this version of System Mechanic? I installed and ran it. BIG mistake. Unlike previous versions, Sys.Mech 6 default setting takes the liberty of cleaning/fixing your PC without the option of viewing and selecting what's to be deleted. I was blocked from Ebay and other sites. Sys.Mech. wiped completely all temp.files and cookies and God knows what else! My PC then wouldn't boot. Thankfully, System Restore in safe mode saved me. I changed Sys.Mech. startup options to prevent another disaster. If you really want to upgrade from Sys.Mech 5 be very careful of what Iolo calls 'clutter cleaning' I can't understand how Iolo launched this without running some trials with some of it's target audience

12-16-2005, 10:47 AM	#2
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	Ouch. I have used SysMech 6 and found it far from perfect. You should definitely e-mail them though with your problem, that way they can see where it went wrong. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

03-05-2006, 09:48 AM	#4
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	Yeah, I would have to agree. I haven't heard one good thing about SM6 since it's been released... so I certainly hope they fix what they did for the next version. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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03-05-2006, 05:19 AM	#3
T-Shirt E.M.I. Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 95	SM6 kind of took a wrong turn, trying to do too much, too automatically, the same thing that ruined Symantec s system works At a time when many people need a high quality, system repair and monitoring utility, the biggest and best known have gone overboard with autofixes sometime making simple problems much worse.

03-21-2006, 01:11 PM	#5
EGPnBlueBell Obliviot Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2	Is there a better alternative?