Ace Utilities Review
Workout for your PC
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You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Small, powerful, elegant.
Does not work on people.
Every day I open the newspaper there is an article of some smart guy telling me how fat I am. It is so depressing that makes me want to grab a chocolate bar.
Every day I boot the PC there is a feeling that it is telling me how fat it is. It is so depressing that makes me want to grab a crowbar.
Yes, because while we are getting heavier and slower, the same is happening to our computers. We could hit the gym, start a diet, or just ignore it (pass me another beer), but unless you upgrade to a faster PC, yours is going to get just worse.
The same way we accumulate fat because we eat junk food, our PCs accumulate useless files because of junk software. Most times when we remove a program, it leaves behind a lot of trash that, along with the regular trash left by the software we run on a regular basis, ends up clogging the PCs and turning them into cybernetic snails.
But before you use the crowbar to hit your machine, let me tell you that help is on its way. It is called Ace Utilities. This small, unpretentious and unknown (at least to me) software was a great surprise.
I hesitated a lot before deciding to test it, as I have already been using other much more famous utilities such as System Mechanic and Norton Utilities. I am glad I did. In spite of its small size (about 8.7Mb installed) it was able to find and remove much more clutter than its bigger competitors.
It has tools to clean the registry and the junk files in your hard drives, fix invalid shortcuts, optimize your startup (reducing boot time), and much more, all in an elegant, simple and efficient way. It also has a powerful set of configuration options, including the ability to create backups of the changes you make to the registry.
One feature I think deserves to be highlighted: the Disk Analysis. It provides something that I’ve been looking for since the old DOS-based Xtree utility passed away: the list of the largest files in the PC, no matter the drive or folder.
It comes with a comprehensive help, and the web site has other support tools, including a user forum.
If you use it an like it, send me some chocolate. After writing this review I could use the calories...
If you want to trim your fat, start exercising. If you want to trim your PC’s fat, give Ace Utilities a try – it is fat free and cost free for 30 days.