Reimage©, is it just another win XP registry cleaner? Can it really clean you DLL files and fix your slow pc problems. Let’s see!

PS: If you would like to skip the review you can click here to download the software else Read On!

Who are they? Reimage has been around since 2007 with HQs in Israel and New York.  Reimage provides the leading automated PC repair software. They have a good presence in the market for such a young company.

Software description:  Reimage – PC Repair software, as mentioned in their site has “exclusive access to a dynamically updated web repository of fresh system components – used as “spare” parts for the repair. No other PC repair/registry repair software on the market offers this.”  Currently version 1.3.3.4 is being tested.

Compatibility: It is only available for repairing all Windows-based including Windows 7 operating systems (English, Spanish and French editions, Home and Pro) at this point.  Minimum of 394MB of RAM on the PC under repair and a high speed internet access required.

Website: It is a very well designed website; Reimage site has menu options are easy to navigate. They have FAQs, Knowledge base, Company details etc.

Download: Reimage was fast and it took less than 45 seconds to download. I have a 3.5 Mbps download speed.

Installation/Scan:

Attempt 1: Installation took about 30 seconds. The software started to scan my PC, waited again and in less than a minute there was an Error – “Reimage cannot scan as OS not supported”. The problem was the Vista OS running on my Acer laptop.

Update: Reimage has since launched Windows 7, Vista versions.

Attempt 2: Now I wasn’t going to give up easily so I looked for another computer. This time I used my Sony Vaio with Win XP which is really old with more junk on it than you can imagine.  In fact, this is the slowest PC I own. I was able to install the software fast with no problems and it scanned my PC in about 8-10 min.

Errors Found: Reimage gives a detailed description of your PC hardware, RAM, paging file size etc; but what I like is that it compares your PC data with the world average & recommended settings in nice graphical display.

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When most of us started using a computer, it had a black and white monitor. Programming languages such as BASIC and LOGO existed.

The advent of the internet brought about the biggest advertising space that ever existed. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads on search engine results pages, banner ads, online classified advertising, advertising networks and e-mail marketing, including e-mail spam.

Along with the joys of the limitless boundaries of online advertising came Ad ware or advertising – supported software. This software automatically plays, shows, and always downloads adverts to a computer after the software is installed on the computer or as it is being used.

Although most people try and avoid downloading from unknown sources or sites, the most common sources of Ad ware are

• Advanced search engines
• Instant news and weather updates
• Computer games
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs
• Fun mouse pointers, desktop themes and backgrounds
• Emoticons and smileys used in emails

Ad wares piggy-back on these sources and once downloaded onto your PC they run in the background constantly creating advertisements. Some Ad wares are harmless which will close upon clicking OK or cancel while malicious Ad wares are those which a user needs to be aware of.

Malicious ad wares can:

• Breach security: It exploits various holes in the security and can automatically add new programs without the users’ knowledge.
• Violate your privacy as it constantly monitors and collects information about you that is not related to any customer preferences and these details can be sold to a third party.
• Weakens your PC by slowing it down with the various programs it is running in the background even when you are not using your computer

Most users do not realise that malicious Ad wares run on a PC until they an Ad ware cleaning software. If you would like to clean your PC of malicious Ad wares check my blog for registry cleaners reviews.

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