Fix It 5.0

by V-Communications

Product Features

• Complete package of utilities to optimize your system's performance
• Finds and prevents problems before they occur, and provides easy, schedulable maintenance
• DiskCleaner and DiskFixer regain wasted disk space and repair hard disk problems
• FixWizards provide simple, one-step processes to handle all regular maintenance tasks
• VirusScanner Pro helps protect your PC from a wide range of viruses

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000A0S2K
• Item model number: 047875316171
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 12, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,960 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Why PC Utilities? Like a car, PCs need maintenance and repair. Running PC utilities on your computer is the equivalent of taking your car in for a tune-up. Fix-It Utilities 5 optimizes system performance, finds and prevents problems before they occur, and provides easy, schedulable maintenance to keep your PC in top shape. With Fix-It Utilities, it's a smooth ride down the information super highway.

Diagnose Your System Problems
Fix-It Utilities includes powerful diagnostic tools to aid in finding problems with your system. SMARTCheck Hard Disk Failure Early Warning System notifies you when your SMART-compatible hard drive motor is having trouble, before the motor stops and your data is inaccessible. PCDiagnostics checks and reports on your installed system hardware including memory, hard drives, serial and parallel ports, video and sound cards, modems, and more! It pinpoints errors and identifies possible causes of trouble. SystemExplorer scans your system and provides a complete list of system statistics. SystemMonitors keeps an eye on your system resources and warns you when monitored resources reach critical levels. ErrorTracker logs all Windows errors messages to assist in troubleshooting system problems.

Launch Programs and Files Faster
There's nothing like a clean, well-organized disk drive to help your PC launch programs and files fast. DiskCleaner and DiskFixer can help you regain wasted disk space and repair problems on the drive's surface. JETDefrag, the high-performance disk defragmenter, gives you a fast power tool that reorganizes your hard drive. It consolidates data so your programs and files aren't in pieces all over the drive. And the IntelliCluster technology ensures that your data is arranged on the drive the way YOU use it.

Quick and Easy FixWizards Do It All
Whether you need assistance or just prefer simple, one-step processes, FixWizards are the answer to your regular PC maintenance needs. Choose from the SpeedUp, CleanUp, or FixUp Wizard, or run the All-in-One Wizard to take care of everything automatically!

Emergency Fix and Rescue Tools
When your computer won't boot and you're unsure of the trouble, Fix-It tools help you solve the problem. Included is an Emergency Response Manual to easily guide you through the trouble-shooting process to fix and restore your system when it won't boot. The Fix-It Utilities CD is bootable and can also help you save data and restore corrupted computer files. Use Fix-It Utilities to get your PC up and running again.

Reliable Virus Protection
These days, viruses are everywhere. The Fix-It Utilities VirusScanner Pro helps protect your PC from a wide range of viruses. Plus, you are able to download the latest virus updates from the VCOM website 24 hours a day - providing you with the most current protection available - around the clock.

Customized Tool Installation
You have the control! You decide which tools to install and which to run in the background. If you change your mind later, you can easily go back and add or remove components.

Unbeatable Registry Cleaning!
SystemRegistry lets you fix, edit, clean and optimize your Windows Registry with the most comprehensive set of registry tools available today.

Retrieve Trashed Files
Whether you've accidentally deleted a file or you've been zapped by a virus, Fix-It Utilities can help. FileUndeleter allows you to search for and rescue accidentally deleted files. The Deleted Files Bin stores deleted files, even after they've been emptied out of the Recycle Bin. And the Crisis Center guides you through critical data recovery options.

Automatic Time Synchronization
Theclock in your PC can drift and become inaccurate. ClockSync lets you easily and automatically synchronize your system's clock with a known, reliable and accurate Internet time source.

Free Bonuses

• PowerDesk 5 - The world's best file manager includes dual pane file management, a powerful file finder, zip and unzip capabilities, customizable toolbar, plus many other features!
• Recovery Commander - Quickly restore your non-booting system back to normal! Recovery Commander provides enhanced tracking and recovery features. It also includes an advanced data-offloading feature to save critical files to removable media such as CDR or USB flash drives without using Windows.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Norton, January 2, 2004

By 

Diego Banducci (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fix It 5.0 (CD-ROM)

This program offers all of the features offered by Systemworks (anti-virus, disk defrag, windows maintenance, etc.), but has a Registry Fixer that catches registry errors that Systemworks misses (there are literally hundreds of them). It then lists them as green, yellow and red (depernding upon how critical they may be to your system) so that you can decide which to delete. It also offers a Registry Defrag feature (unavailable on Norton), to optimize registry performance. These two features alone justify the cost of the product.

While it does offer anti-virus protection, it does not include a firewall, anti-spam or spyware blocking. For these features, the best program is PC-cillin Internet Security 2004.

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much, much better than ...., September 9, 2003

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Darwin's Bulldog (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fix It 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I switched from the leading utility when a) they started to charge for anti-virus signature updates, and 2) the auto-update stopped working with no fixes available. The latter was, of course, critically important,especially since my children were not able to download updates manually. (Of course, it has always been possible to get the latest anti-virus signatures without the fee if you knew the trick, but I really resented the extra fee. It began to feel like buying their software was paying to get the right to pay more, and more, and more... )

The Fix-It utilities are much better. The defragmentation module is very fast, as is the disk integrity check. These are the most commonly run tasks.

In addition the Powerdesk utility included (and also sold separately)has itself won several awards for being superior to the Windows Explorer. The dual pane window makes moving files much easier and the preview pane is enormously helpful when file name are not sufficiently descriptive.

Highly recommended!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great product for novices, October 3, 2004

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Diane Mchugh (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fix It 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I'm extremely happy with this product and intially bought it as a registry cleaner. I bought this product soon after I bought a new PC. My old PC got slower and slower overtime and I wanted to keep the new PC in tip-top shape. My kids do a lot of downloading and who knows what else. This product has a great registry cleaner for novices. I'm terrified at the thought of changing the computer registry but this software goes through the registry and rates each problem it finds: green light--ok to delete, yellow light--delete with caution, red light--extreme caution. I only change the green light entries which is the default. The first time I ran it, it deleted over 400 entries with no ill effects.
As an added bonus it came with PC-cillin, a very good anti-virus software program. This anti-virus software picked up a trojan on my computer which several other anti-virus software programs missed. PC-Cillin is made by Trend Micro. It also comes with a host of diagnostic tools, disk utilities, and system restore functions, registry defrag, system backup utilities. For the novice you can just use the 'all in one' wizard and it will run the utilities for you (only green light changes will be made). The 'all in one' wizard does take several hours to run however. I would buy this product again. (...) Also, VCOM responded quickly the one time I had a question on how to delete a trojan. This product does not deal with spyware. I still run Spybot, AD-aware, and Spyware Blaster to deal with spyware.