Fix-It 6.0

[Jonny]

Downloaded and installed a program from avanquest.com called Fix-It. Using
a ME OS with no internet access as test bed, and have imaged the OS prior to
install. All seems to work, though its defrag portion is terribly slow.
Its regcleaner (I know, they don't work or wreck your system) seems to use a
priority coloring system to prompt cleaning like the old Norton Cleansweep.
Green safe to delete, yellow and red use evaluate before deleting these
registry entries. Has a registry defragmenter that requires reboot after
done, not sure how that part works. Has a minimal AV for checking system
files only. Optional install of Recovery Commander that seems to do the
same things as a restore does?? Another optional install is Powerdesk Pro
5.0 version.
Noticed during the installation, there was reference to Linux. So am
guessing some of it is Linux core with a windows translator for data result
display. Should I be concerned about this? Could the linux portion be
sending data "home" without knowledge of the firewall (ZA Pro) if I install
on XP?

If all checks out, should I install it on XP as is compatible?

 

[Malke]

Downloaded and installed a program from avanquest.com called Fix-It.
Using a ME OS with no internet access as test bed, and have imaged the
OS prior to
install. All seems to work, though its defrag portion is terribly
slow. Its regcleaner (I know, they don't work or wreck your system)
seems to use a priority coloring system to prompt cleaning like the
old Norton Cleansweep. Green safe to delete, yellow and red use
evaluate before deleting these
registry entries. Has a registry defragmenter that requires reboot
after
done, not sure how that part works. Has a minimal AV for checking
system
files only. Optional install of Recovery Commander that seems to do
the
same things as a restore does?? Another optional install is Powerdesk
Pro 5.0 version.
Noticed during the installation, there was reference to Linux. So am
guessing some of it is Linux core with a windows translator for data
result
display. Should I be concerned about this? Could the linux portion
be sending data "home" without knowledge of the firewall (ZA Pro) if I
install on XP?

If all checks out, should I install it on XP as is compatible?

These are questions you should ask the Fix-It people. I personally don't
think those "fix-it" type utilities are useful on XP at all and
probably do more damage than good.

Malke

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Malke" <[email protected]>


| These are questions you should ask the Fix-It people. I personally don't
| think those "fix-it" type utilities are useful on XP at all and
| probably do more damage than good.
|
| Malke

To add to that...

The Fix-It tools implements the Trend Micro scanning engine but the anti virus front end
stinks and its anti virus capabilities is completely lacking full capabilities. It is
*much* better to use an actual Trend Micro AV solution such as PC-Cillin.

Basically, Fix-It utilities is just junk.

 

[Plato]

Downloaded and installed a program from avanquest.com called Fix-It. Using
If all checks out, should I install it on XP as is compatible?

Ask the program Author.

 

[Jonny]

These are questions you should ask the Fix-It people. I personally don't
think those "fix-it" type utilities are useful on XP at all and
probably do more damage than good.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Don't think the software website distributor is going to say anything up
front that will dismay the user from installing the product.

I like to try stuff, even some fudgy new stuff that seems in development
stage. Even Bill with MS DOS 1.0 and 2.0 had major problems at the
beginning. He did alot of dancing back then as well. Some people choose to
forget this or are not aware of it.

 

[Jerry]

Fix-It versions 5 and 6 are compatible with Windows XP. I have used 5
and now use 6.

Jerry

 

[Jonny]

Installed on XP SP2 now. Some preliminary findings. The defragmenter may
be broken. After using its defragmenter (slow), then using Diskeeper 8,
found 326 file fragments. The registry cleaner seems to work without
wrecking XP or programs so far.