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  • 1.0 stars

    "FLAWED; SM erases the M/S installer"

    July 5, 2012  |   By tenfour1

    Pros

    cheap and it says it can do wonderous things

    Cons

    Garbage software- used to be good Their engineers don't seem to care.If you think you can get by w/o system installer- fine. The only solution is to do a complete reinstall, which, of course is painful.

    Summary

    Don't buy it, and do not try their registry suggestions or you will end up with zero. If your installer works, uninstall as quickly as possible.

    Updated on Jul 25, 2012

    Well the SM CSR people said they fixed the major problem that corrupted the registry entry for ms/Installer, and provided me with the link for SMPro 11; I downloaded it and was about to install it when I noticed it was the old 10.5.8 version- the one that DOES DAMAGE! So, I told them, and they said there was a problem with the new 11 version, and would "let me know". In other words they have no idea what's wrong, how to fix it and then attempt to mislead you. I ma trying to get my money back-good luck, eh? DO NOT USE SYSTEM MECHANIC UNLESS YOU WANT MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH YOUR PC!!

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