System Boost Elite

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on August 18, 2011

Just as our houses require regular cleaning to get rid of the messes of daily living, so, too, do computers require cleaning to get rid of the messes of downloading, installing, uninstalling, and Internet surfing. System Boost Elite is a full-featured program that can tidy up your Registry, junk files, and more. Unfortunately, the free version can only fix three problems at a time, which could be a drawback if you haven't been staying on top of your housekeeping.

The program's interface is attractive and easy to navigate, with check boxes that let users select Registry Clean, Privacy Sweep, Junk Files Removal, and System Optimization. You can select exactly which kinds of issues you want the program to scan for within each of these four categories. We decided to do the full scan, and once we clicked the Scan button the program quickly found hundreds of problems. It then gave us the option to cure them, and when we agreed it corrected three of the broken Registry items. You can run the program again and again, correcting three problems at a time, but this obviously isn't an efficient way to clean up your computer if you have a lot of things that need to be fixed. The program's online Help page provides some basic information about what the Windows Registry is and how the program works, but as with any program that changes your computer's Registry, you'll want to proceed with caution. Overall, we found System Boost Elite to be a useful program, but the limitations on the free version could be a problem for some.

System Boost Elite installs and uninstalls without issues.

Publisher's Description

From System Boost Elite:

System Boost Elite is a registry cleaning software raising your computer up to its peak performance. With the daily use of your computer, its running speed will be dragged down by the accumulated invalid registry entries, registry errors, and obsolete files. And even more seriously, such annoying registry errors would cause problems like crashing or freezing, blue screen, deadlock, error messages. That's why we find our brand new PC running like lightening at the very beginning but performing more and more poorly as time goes on. As your system care engineer, System Boost Elite applies the most advanced technology to diagnose your hard driver and give a most effective treatment in seconds. It has also done a remarkable job in protecting your privacy by erasing your IE history, recent doc history and client information periodically. What marks it out is its simplicity and convenience. With easy steps to follow, users can finish the cleaning work within several clicks. An automated option is available, which brings users the real convenience in both cleaning and optimizing the system. The small program will tell you what it is going on because all procedures are conducted according to the order: Registry Clean, Privacy Sweep, Junk File Removal and System Optimization.

What's new in this version: Version 2.8.7.8 is a bug fixing release.