- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Some features disabled); $39.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: August 27, 2008
- Total Downloads: 101,540
- Downloads last week: 140
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 41 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Locked features make it difficult to evaluate this undistinguished Registry utility. Desktop Maestro's simple multitabbed interface uses tooltips and short instructions to guide users. Novices will appreciate the basic text, but experienced users may wish for functions that require fewer steps.
Desktop Maestro's general operation mirrors most programs in the genre. Users start a complete system scan with a single click. The application offers users the opportunity to create a custom scan of fewer Registry sections, but then makes them take two extra steps to start it. As is far too common in this gene, removing found problems is disabled for many items. This application goes further by making it difficult to clean at all. While all found problem entries are listed, it's a bother to deselect all, select only a particular section, or sort all entries into a single list.
An option to restore a Registry backup is not paired with an easy method to create a backup. A tool to monitor changes in the Registry offers no ability to monitor only select hives.
Desktop Maestro's interface is clean, well-ordered, and responsive. Unfortunately, that's all we liked about this utility. There are far too many other apps in this genre that outperform this program's scanning, cleaning, and monitoring functions.
Publisher's description
From PC Tools :Desktop Maestro is an all-in-one application that integrates registry cleaning, system monitoring and privacy cleaning. It combines the features of Registry Mechanic and Privacy Guardian to ensure that you have the range of tools at your fingertips to ensure optimal system performance, stability and user privacy. With Desktop Maestro, you can safely clean, repair, and optimize the Windows registry with a few simple mouse clicks. Problems with the Windows registry are a common cause of Windows crashes, slow performance and error messages. The Privacy Guardian feature of Desktop Mechanic guarantees your privacy by ensuring that all traces of your online and computer activities are permanently erased and unrecoverable on your PC. Desktop Maestro provides optimization and performance features that allow you to actively monitor system usage, processes, CPU, memory and disk space.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.2 stars out of 41 votes
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Version: Desktop Maestro 3.1
Pros: None, PC Tools wasted their and MY time on this junk. Stick with Registry Mechanic & CCleaner
Cons: Deleted files that it shouldn't have. Good thing I backed up before running this piece of junk.
Summary: Stay away from. Deletes good files.
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Version: Desktop Maestro 3.1
"realy functions just search for the serial (serials.ws)"
Pros: its very good but u need the serial to make it function properly
Cons: u need the serial to fix most of the problems
Summary: just search at this page serials.ws warning adult images may show up at the bigining just ignore them and search for the serial on the search box
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Version: Desktop Maestro 3.1
Pros: there was no real way to put a pro on this software
Cons: too many locked features
Summary: It is not worth the time to download it
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Version: Desktop Maestro 3.1
"Best and Easy the Desktop Maestrot!!"
Pros: Hi! Don't tell me this please, I'm worked and know the Desktop Maestro in one PC with Vista Windows OS and other with windows XP with the Registry Mechanic and the Privacy Guardian, software complementary at the Registry Mechanic!!
Cons: Really the program is good, but is hard to configure the many options and combination of the two software per each and I'm recommend the Privacy Guardian if you have the Registry Mechanic!!! But best, the Desktop Mechanic!
Summary: Is Most easy to configure, run the same options with the Desktop Mechanic with best results!!! Is a best Option in therms of your running faster or erase drivers, software, data, and others features of these program with the two integrated tools, Th... read more >>
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Version: Desktop Maestro 3.1
"i have no idea why they bothered to produce this"
Pros: easy to use
Cons: wont optimize my computer. go for iolo system mechanic or even better, advanced systemcare 3.2
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