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- Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $34.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows XP SP 2, Windows Vista 32-bit
- Date added: June 08, 2009
- Total Downloads: 276,398
- Downloads last week: 833
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 51 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on January 28, 2009
Advanced Vista Optimizer consolidates into one dashboard numerous system-tweaking and configuration tools, from the basic to the advanced. The features cover the bases, including disk and Registry defragging, program prefetching and the proprietary Superfetching, start-up and shutdown tweaks, optimization adjustments for performance, memory, and hardware, an uninstaller, and a file splitter and joiner.
Designed to resemble Vista's Windows Explorer layout, the interface makes clever use of a breadcrumb trail at the top to make it easier to navigate back to any previously-visited level. Below the breadcrumb bar, the main window has been split into two levels. The top pane contains feature information about the tool you're currently looking at, and a static panel detailing current system settings such as last optimization date, available RAM, and OS version--Windows Vista Enterprise, for example.
AVO offers one other feature, a Single Click Care that blasts through both its initial scan and the subsequent clean-up. The start button for this cumulative scan that rounds up all optimization features except for defragmentation appears in the main window for the program, ensuring a quick start. In our tests, the initial scan took about 90 seconds to discover what it considered more than 2000 problem points, and the corrective clean-up took about four minutes. A system restart is required for changes to take effect.
As is occasionally common in these omnitool programs, some of AVO's components could be more thoroughly fleshed out. The Disk Defragger, for example, lacks a progress bar and is not the fastest defragger we've seen, although it is effective. Nevertheless, users who want a comprehensive round-up of tools and utilities accessible from one familiar interface should find Advanced Vista Optimizer to be worth the investment.
Publisher's description
From Systweak :Advanced Vista Optimizer is a comprehensive set of 25+ tools to boost up your system's performance. Its powerful optimizing features like Disk Defragment and Memory Optimizer make your computer always perform like new. The security tools like Privacy Protector and File Encryptor ensure that your private data is always safe. Advanced Vista Optimizer gives you access to 35+ tweaks and tuning options, in one program, so that you can customize your copy of Windows Vista to be your personal copy. It can be scheduled to automatically maintain your system in perfect health by running the optimizing tools without regular user action.
Version 3.5.3853 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
- Some minor bug fixes - Tweak enhancements - Engine upgradations
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- Average user rating: 3.3 stars out of 51 votes
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Version: Advanced Vista Optimizer 2009 3.5.3853
Pros: I've used slower optimizers.
Cons: slow, slow, slow, you can get better for free.
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Version: Advanced Vista Optimizer 2009 3.5.3853
Pros: does a fair job
Cons: it isn't free software.
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Version: Advanced Vista Optimizer 2009 3.5.3853
Pros: Does a pretty good job, overall.
Cons: VERY VERY VERY slow.
"Update" will pull a Bait-And-Switch on you.Summary: It's an okay optimizer, better than some, but I've seen better than this. My REAL gripe about it though, is that when it "updates", it will install the new version, uninstall the old version (with a prompt, but who keeps their old versions?) and th... read more >>
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Version: Advanced Vista Optimizer 2009 3.5.3853
"Can SLOW really get any slower?"
Pros: Yes, it can, my computer was twice as slow after tweaking it and optimizing it--Do yourself a favor and forget this add-on--it totally sucks!
Cons: SLOW did nothing to make my computer speed up. I defraged, tweaked everything--I even removed programs (stuff I really didn't need) and still slower than before I installed.
Summary: forget it--Vista sucks and always will.
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Version: Advanced Vista Optimizer 2009 3.5.3853
"The wise choice for vista users."
Pros: When I optimize my computer, it really did the job. 2X the speed of my computer.
Cons: Sometimes, it dosent do the same results on some vistas.
Summary: As well i said above it dosent do the same results. But it really does the job.
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