Product Description

Keep your PC running like new with Fix-It Utilities PC tune-up and repair software. Fix-It Utilities finds and fixes Windows problems, eliminates PC crashes, slowdowns and freezes. Powerful spyware protection removes existing viruses and spyware and prevents future attacks. Automatically fix, optimize and speed up your PC with Fix-It Utilities, the system repair utility.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3557 in Software
• Brand: Avanquest
• Model: 1611
• Released on: 2008-11-01
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .80 pounds

Features

• Fix-It Utilities 9 Professional gives you five easy-to-use Wizards that allow you to fix, clean, optimize or protect your system or perform a comprehensive system tune-up
• Securely clean existing viruses and spyware from your PC, and prevent future virus and spyware infections with real-time system protection
• Fix-It Utilities cleans out hard drive clutter and optimizes your PC for gaming, security, multimedia and office needs
• Speed up your PC by defragmenting, cleaning, fixing and optimizing your Windows registry
• Recover deleted files, photos, music, email and more with powerful data rescue tools; rescue your PC when Windows won't start or fix and restore your PC back to perfect health with built-in recovery features

Amazon.com Product Description
Tired of your PC's slow performance? Sick of programs freezing and not working? With just one click, Fix-It Utilities Professional runs 100 tests to uncover the problems that slow down your computer and fix them so your computer runs like new again. Some programs fix just a handful of PC problems but don't find the problems that are plaguing your PC. But Fix-It Utilities Professional is the most comprehensive and #1 best selling product of its kind. With Fix-It, anyone can maintain and repair their PC themselves.

With just one click, Fix-It Utilities Professional runs 100 tests to uncover the problems that slow down your computer and fix them so your computer runs like new again. Click to enlarge.

Everything You Need to Repair, Speed Up & Protect Your PC

Diagnose & Fix Windows Problems
Fix-It Utilities runs over 100 tests to uncover problems that slow down your computer and fix them so that your computer runs like new again.

Optimize Computer Performance
Fix-It finds and removes wasted disk space, repairs hard drive problems, and speeds up Windows startup.

95+ Diagnostic Tests
Fix-It Utilities checks your system hardware such as memory, hard drives, network cards and more to ensure everything is working properly.

Registry Repair & Maintenance
Speed your PC performance by defragmenting, cleaning, fixing and optimizing your Windows registry.

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.

Windows Rescue CD
Fix and restore your PC when your computer won't boot with the included Windows rescue CD. If you are downloading Fix-It Utilities, you can create a Windows Rescue CD directly from the software.

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.

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.

One-Click Performance and Security Wizard Solutions are the answer to your regular PC needs. Choose from the Optimize, CleanUp, FixUp & Security Wizards or run the Comprehensive Wizard to take care of everything automatically. Click to enlarge.

Fix-It Utilities removes existing viruses, malware and spyware from your PC and prevents future infections by monitoring your computer for any malicious behavior. Click to enlarge.

Speed your PC performance by defragmenting, cleaning, fixing and optimizing your Windows registry. Click to enlarge.

One-Step PC Tune-Up Wizards for Easy Maintenance

One-Click Performance and Security Wizard Solutions are the answer to your regular PC needs. Choose from the Optimize, CleanUp, FixUp & Security Wizards or run the Comprehensive Wizard to take care of everything automatically.

• Optimize Wizard
  Optimizes your hard drive and system registry for improved system performance.
  
  
• FixUp Wizard
  Diagnoses hard drive problems, fixes and repairs your Windows registry and tests your hardware.
  
  
• CleanUp Wizard
  Backs up your system files, cleans out the hard drive clutter and regains wasted disk space.
  
  

World-Class, Integrated Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware Protection

Award-Winning, Real-Time PC Protection
Fix-It Utilities removes existing viruses, malware and spyware from your PC and prevents future infections by monitoring your computer for any malicious behavior. Get real-time protection from viruses and spyware in email messages, attachments and Internet downloads.

• Virus, spyware & malware detection & removal
• NEW! Prevents rootkits and keyloggers from stealing personal data
• NEW! Real-time protection against any malicious behavior
• NEW! Hourly updates to protect you against the latest threats

What's New & Improved in Version 9

Internet Speed Optimizer--NEW
The new Internet Speed tool accelerates browser, download and surfing speeds up to 80% for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers.

Windows Optimizer Tool--NEW
This new tool improves security settings for Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer, addresses registry vulnerabilities, and cleans the printer queue. Microsoft Office and Internet browsers have security flaws where hackers can send viruses and spyware through. Fix-It Utilities fixes those security flaws, protecting you against attacks. Also, files that you want to print can get stuck in the printer queue. When this happens often the only way to get the file out is to restart your computer. Fix-It Utilities removes the file(s) that are causing the printing problem, without having to restart your computer.

Memory Optimizer Tool--NEW
Fix-It Utilities optimizes the way Windows uses memory to improve system performance.

Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware Engine--IMPROVED ($29.95 Value as a standalone)
Fix-It Utilities anti-virus and anti-spyware tools include new security features to ensure you are always protected against the latest threats.

• NEW! Rootkit Detection and Removal
• NEW! Real Time Protection Shields
• NEW! Behavior based malware identification

PC Diagnostics--IMPROVED
Fix-It Utilities PC diagnostics have been improved to support testing of hardware for Vista computers.

Temp File Cleaners--IMPROVED
The temp file cleaners now feature an option to permanently shred the selected temp files. This improves the security of your PC by protecting you against any potentially malicious temp files.

Active Intelligence--IMPROVED
Fix-It Utilities "Active Intelligence" engine now monitors hard drive status, available disk space, hard drive fragmentation, registry errors, excess temp files and startup applications. Fix-It Utilities enables users to reduce start-up times by 25%, improve read-write performance by 20%, and prevent data loss by identifying hard drive problems before they happen.

File Shredder Tool--IMPROVED
Fix-It Utilities file shredder tool now features two additional options for securely shredding sensitive files and strengthening your protection against identity theft. Users can select 1, 3, 7 or 35 pass options. With increased wiping options, users can ensure their sensitive data is securely deleted from even the most aggressive file recovery software.

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Customer Reviews

Average
The problem with this software is not that it doesn't do what it's intended to do. It mostly does. The issue is that it does it less well than other freeware programs available. I came into contact with the software when my friend called me to help him repair his computer which had developed a whole host of problems after he upgraded from XP to Vista. He needed to fix his boot log, as well as repair some registry entries. He had attempted to do that with Fix-It Utilities, but had not had any success. I've always used to excellent free ware apps for these types of fixes, both available as free downloads. For registry fixes, I've always used Ccleaner with great results. For boot load problems, I've always used EasyBCD.

Long story short, Fix-it was able to repair most of the registry problems, but even after it had concluded its auto repair, CCleaner was able to locate additional problems and repair them. Fix-It was NOT able to fix the boot problem, while EasyBCD fixed it immediately.

In my opinion, this is a collections of applications that are all of average quality. They might be worth buying for someone who does not want to take the time to download free (and often better) alternatives. There is some value to having a suite of software that will do a number of useful tasks and make it simple, (virus scan, registry fixes, disk de-frag, internet history eraser, etc.) but I believe there are freeware applications that do all of these things extraordinarily well, so for me, I prefer to use those much less expensive programs.

outdated
the product was outdated,would not play at first.
had to contact the company,then spend time dowloading new updates
should not be sold in this condition.
dgFix-It Utilities 9 Professional

HORRIBLE - wasted 3 hours and permanently corrupted my machine

An absolute disaster.

PC Fix-it Utilities 9 Professional software is a DISASTER. I spent over 3 hours working on it, about over 10 total reboots, and the machine is faster with some things but is MUCH more unstable.

However, I CAN'T USE OUTLOOK AT ALL now, since it says it can't find MAPI32.DLL anymore and now Outlook says I should reinstall Outlook. I tried getting a MAPI32.DLL from another machine and that doesn't seem to work either.

Every time it boots, Windows installer starts up 4 windows, and sometimes it hangs, and sometimes it boots up completely after it flashes through a bunch of other windows installers.

I hate

- the company who made it
- Staples who sold it
- and some dirtbag named Bill Machrone at PC magazine online who endorsed it.

Spare yourselves.