Virgin Media carries an advert for Error Smart, which promises to fix the large number of errors found by its free scan. It will do so for $9.95 subscription. Has anybody tried it?
They say they can "increase PC performance by up to 70 percent"
Now I have to say there is NOTHING you can do to a computer to increase performance by 70%. Even a new CPU and more memory would be hard pressed to increase performance by 70%.
And if all they are doing is tidying up a few things and deleting a few entries from the registry then I would say the MOST you could hope for is a performance increase of 1% or 2%, which you would hardly notice.
It is very unlikely that any entries in your registry are causing problems, and personally I dont believe these programs that offer to do all these things
It is up to you, but I think you would be wasting your money.
I have just searched for some reviews of Error Smart and I think most of these reviews have been "planted" by the people who write and sell Error Smart.
They all seem to start "I thought Error Smart was a scam, but then I downloaded it and it was fantastic etc etc etc".
I agree reinstall Windows if you`re having a few problems.
It`s not as daunting as it sounds when you google it. My computer was in a bad state when I tried it the first time, and I was amazed at how simple it was. I too now do it about every 6 months or so.
Very many thanks to vhg, trish,ACT, and squarebear for a comprehensive reply. I was, as ever, sceptical, but, as ever, optimistic. I really should stick a note on my p.c.: there's no such thing as a free lunch. Thanks again.