Fix-It Utilities 8 Professional [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• Comprehensive Anti-Virus Protection, Spyware Protection & Removal
• Diagnose and Fix Problems; One-Step Fix & Repair Wizards
• Windows Startup Manager, Registry Repair & Maintenance, Windows & File Recovery Tools
• 40+ Integrated Tools, 95+ PC Diagnostic Tests
• 3-User License--Install on up to Three PCs

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000V7V2UE
• Item model number: 1661
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 17, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,700 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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Keep Your PC Running Like New with The Premier PC Repair & Maintenance Utility! Is your PC slowing down, crashing or simply not booting? Fix-It Utilities will restore your PC back to its former health. Get speed, power and performance from your computer with more than 40 maintenance and optimization tools. Defend your PC with integrated anti-virus and anti-spyware tools. Fix-It Utilities finds and prevents problems before they happen and provides easy, scheduled maintenance to keep your PC running like new!

One-Step Maintenance & Repair Wizards--choose the fix, cleaning or optimization wizard to fit your needs.

Fix-It Utilities includes powerful diagnostic tools to aid in finding problems with your system.

Get Speed, Power & Performance from Your PC.

One-Step Maintenance & Repair Wizards
Choose the fix, cleaning or optimization wizard to fit your needs or perform a comprehensive system tune-up automatically. Let Fix-It Utilities do the work for you with built-in scheduling.

Optimize Wizard
Optimizes your hard drive and system registry for improved system performance.

FixUp Wizard
Checks your hard drive for signs of failure, scans your file system and registry for problems, and tests your hardware.

CleanUp Wizard
Backs up your system files and cleans out unnecessary files and registry entries.

Integrated Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware Protection

Anti-Virus Protection
Prevent your system from being infected with harmful viruses, trojans and worms. Get real-time protection from viruses in email messages and attachments as they arrive and as files are opened.

Spyware Prevention & Removal
Dangerous spyware can infect your system in many ways. Prevent spyware from harming your computer with real-time protection. Scan automatically or on demand and remove existing spyware and malware.

System protection and health status meters give you an instant overview of your PC's health.

PCDiagnostics checks and reports on your installed system hardware.

Keep Your PC Running Better, Faster & Longer
With over 40 integrated tools, Fix-It Utilities will fix, repair and optimize your PC for maximum performance.

Diagnose System Problems
Fix-It Utilities includes powerful diagnostic tools to aid in finding problems with your system.

PC Health Monitoring
System protection and health status meters give you an instant overview of your PC's health.

Improve PC Performance
Regain wasted disk space, repair hard drive problems and speed up Windows startup.

Windows Startup Manager
Identify and remove startup programs that slow down and possibly harm your system.

Hardware Diagnostic Testing
PCDiagnostics checks and reports on your installed system hardware, including memory, hard drives, USB drives, network cards, video and sounds cards, modems and more!

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

Users can select profiles to optimize their systems for certain PC tasks.

Help prevent your data from falling into the wrong hands by securely erasing data from your hard drive.

Emergency Fix and Rescue Tools
Quickly fix and restore your PC when it won't boot. Enhanced tracking and recovery features save your data and restore corrupted computer files.

Recover Lost Photos, Music & Data
Accidentally deleted your photos, music or personal data? Instantly recover deleted files, photos, music, video, email and more with Fix-It Utilities built-in recovery features.

95+ PC Diagnostic Tests
Tests that will help keep your computer running at its best.

What's New

System Optimizer
Users can select profiles to optimize their systems for certain PC tasks--like Gaming, Multimedia, Office tasks and Security. One click and you're optimized for maximum performance.

Securely Erase Your Data
Help prevent your data from falling into the wrong hands by securely erasing data from your hard drive. You'll be protected from Identity Theft as File Shredder meets U.S. Department of Defense Security cleaning standards, ensuring that erased data is completely unrecoverable.

Active Intelligence Monitor
Automatically checks the health and security status of your PC in the background ensuring you are always protected without you having to lift a finger.

Recover Commander--Enhanced!
Supports offloading files to an external USB Drive (and thumb drive), making recovery easier and more convenient than ever.

Hardware Diagnostics
Memory, Video, Hard Drive, Sound Card, System Board, Modem, Serial Port, Keyboard, Mouse, Zip Drive, USB Port, Monitor, Parallel Port, Diskette Drive, CPU, DVD Drive, Network Card

Product Description

Get speed, power and performance from your computer with more than 40 maintenance and optimization tools with web security and more

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Authentication Defect, October 10, 2007

By	William B. Miller "Will" (The Village, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been using Fix-It Utilities since Ver. 5. The program hasn't changed much over the years with a few patchs and improvements...this year there are some major innovations and one major flaw.

The program has difficulty with "Authentication" which bars the program from updating the virus patterns from Trend Micro, the power behind the protection. No update, no protection. One may as well go to the vendors that update their barebones free programs.

Support is via eMail, doesn't help when you're working on the program in the evening on a weekend as I was. I've gone through two rounds with their "tech support" who offer the advise that is available on their website, and it does not solve or resolve the problems.

In their effort to protect themselves from "pirates" they've probably lost a customer and can expect to receive their 'box' in the mail with a refund request. I've sent one last message and if they don't have a solution instead of more frustration for me I'll be looking at other software to provide the protection needed. - If they provide a viable solution I'll update the posting.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fix-It Utilities 8 has problems! I'll stick with Fix-It Utilities 6!, December 15, 2007

By	scottls1 "scottls1" (Kalispell, MT USA) - See all my reviews

I am a software tech-
I've been happily using Fix-It Utilities 6 for years. I ONLY use 6's Utilities, and disable their anti-virus (see my Amazon review).
The only thing I didn't like about 6, was their slow reg (registry) scans.

I read another user review about 8 having fast reg scans (NOT!), so I decided to try their 15 day free trial option (DO THIS FIRST!).
It messed up my system BADLY, and I had to completely restore with Acronis True Image 9.0 (I did a full System backup, just prior to trying 8! Restore took only 3 minutes (Read my Amazon review!).

Fix-It 8 cons-
1. Their new file cleaner is WAY TOO agressive!
They give you two pages+- Listing dozens of types of files for you to pre-select for cleaning??? VERY CONFUSING!?
I checked the few that I was fairly confident with, and deleted them (luckily I opted to keep them in a backup file/settings...)?
All kinds of programs wouldn't work, uninstall help files disappered...
-The safe file cleaner on 6, never gave me problems (auto-settings)!

2. The 8 reg Fix/cleaner found no more errors, and was just as slow!

BOTTOM LINE!- You can still find Fix-It 6 CHEAP (Fix-It 7 gets BAD reviews!), on Amazon...

Be sure & pre-read my updated Fix-It 6 Amazon review, for my #1 tips/picks on- reg/file cleaners, anti-malware, firewall (mostly free!)!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Software - completely saved my computer, November 14, 2007

By	M. Chen - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My computer was running into some major issues and I suspected that spyware or some other virus or malware was causing the problems. I installed Fix-It Utilities and the difference was like night and day. Not only did it remove all of the spyware on my computer, but it also optimized it, making it run faster than when I first got it! (I think HP installed a bunch of crappy software when I first got my computer. The startup manager included in Fix It took care of that)

Pros:
Spyware & Antivirus!
Startup Manager makes your computer load faster
Registry Cleaner removed all invalid entries
One click system optimizer
and most of all... 3 user license! I have it now installed on my personal PC, sister's pc, and parents laptop

Cons:
Doesn't support Windows 98. (I know, I need to upgrade)