Customer Reviews

iolo System Mechanic 6

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(20)

 

 

I have been trying to use this product for a week to no avail. I can't get any help throught IOLO's 24/7 email help and the program is very non profesional. It will give a list of fixes it will make but doesn;t give exact nature of fix( like what key or program) and will not let you individually select what to keep.
After running the fix none of my roxio software would work and I had to restore my hard drive to get everything back to the way it was. It would find spyware yet wouldn't clean the spyware and after using numerous othe spyware programs came to the conclusion there wasn't any to find. Also the biggest reason NOT to buy this software is of their refund policy. The give you a 30 day limping trial so therefor no refunds!! Stay away from this one

After this product caused chkdsk to run so many times at reboot, I was glad to get this thing off my PC. Also, it does not perform according to options selected, removing items as it sees fit, and it does not propose individual actions before performing them, even though it claims it will. It does not log what changes it does make, and it seems to make no difference at all in my PC's performance. It did free up memory, but it took so long to do it, it wasn't practical anyway. If I could give 5 stars for junk, this product would earn them, rating first in lack of utility; first in destructive performance; first in lack of user control, first in lack of documentation; and first in cost-uselessness.

I had installed System Mechanic 5 Pro as an alternative to Norton, which could not handle multi-threaded systems. It was great. When version 6 came out, I installed it. Version 6 has been nothing but trouble.
1. I had to restore my OS from a backup because the system would begin their "Boot time defragmenter", which I cancelled after 27 hours (by rebooting, the "Hit any key to cancel doesn't work not matter when you hit it).
2. I had to disable the automatic update notification, because it would constantly nag me to install the same update I had just finished installing.
3. I tried getting some assistance from their proported 24/7 support team, and the only answer I would get is to install the update. When I called them on their non-anwser, they told me to wait a week for the new update. It still, after two weeks wants me to re-install itself.
4. As others have noted, the "problems" that it "finds and fixes" will be found to need fixing the next time you run the program again.
5. And, to add insult to injury, the company that handles their rebates, apparently lost my UPC code, and is refusing to process the rebate until I mail the original UPC to them. As there is only one of these, and it has been mailed to them, I am screwed.

In conclusion, if you have Version 5, stay with it. If you don't have any version, get the Version 5. If you get Version 6, have a good backup of the boot partition.

Nice eye candy. Nothing works properly. Slows system down. Most updates lock up. Always tells me I have major error on hard drive even though its brand new and runs perfectly. P.O.S. Buy System Mechanic 5 instead.

This so called "utility software" is way beyond bad. It is a piece of junk (replace junk with a lot more colorfull words). I bought this even though all the reviews tell you not to even consider it. Well I found out the hard way that they are all right. I have now spent many hours to try and restore my computer to get it to even work. DO NOT GET THIS SOFTWARE! It will cause nothing but grief and regret.

System Mechanic 6 not only hangs up its self, but hangs up my computer when it tries some "analses". Also the company does not answer questions about problems )there are many). Sorry I spent money on this product. Would like to know what to do.

This will not "fix" anything, especially if you have anti-virus software installed. Your computer will lock up if you run this program, as it has done in previous versions of the software. DON'T BUY!!!!

I too agree with all the other product reviewers. System Mechanic 6 from iolo is a waste of money. If you have version 5, stay with it, you'll be better off. Most options/features don't work, and you are nagged to death about how poorly your computer is performing. I have run back-to-back the 'Total Care' feature of the program. It would fix the 'non-existant' problems on the first run, reboot, and detect the very same problems again on the second run. This software is nothing more than eye candy, and represents software bloat at its finest. Also beware that this product will constantly detect any spam filtering software as a parasite. As a result you will be forced to re-install your spam filtering software, or re-enable it via the menu options. I have noticed that the software will crash on a semi-regular basis, and become unresponsive. This makes the software in my eyes nothing but a waste of your HARD EARNED MONEY! I am running the current 6.0(Q) version, so not much seems fixed as of yet. If you go to the iolo web site you will see the long list of version changes. They appear to be rapid fire, and suggest to me that this software was released way too early. Anyone who buys it now is nothing more than a BETA tester for their product, since they hope you will complain about what's broken, so they can 'fix' it. This was nothing more than a ploy by iolo to get this product on the retail market for the holiday sales season, bugs and all! DON'T BE TAKEN IN LIKE I WAS, SAVE YOUR MONEY AND WAIT FOR A STABLE VERSION TO BE RELEASED.

wont work out of the box and support is not able to fix it.

I have been a very happy user of System Mechanic since version 3. It kept getting better and better with every version, until this version came out. I have never seen a such an easy to use and useful program take as large of a nose dive from one version to the next until I saw System Mechanic go from version 5 to 6. It is literally a miserable mess. Tell me SM6 creators, why is it the program wants to connect to the internet SEVERAL times a day? Why have you added so many background processes to my start up that I have no option of turning off in SM settings? Did you know you considered my nvidia video card software as malware and disabled it? (...) I miss the ease of the earlier versions.