Windows Doctor

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET Staff on February 27, 2009

This suite of system analysis and repair tools pairs strong functionality with simple operation. Windows Doctor's clean, professional interface offers flexibility for expert users without overwhelming inexperienced users with options. The user manual is short, to the point, and actually helpful.

Operating Windows Doctor can be a mere matter of pressing a few buttons. Five tabs split the suite into System Security, Registry Cleanup, Privacy Cleanup, System Speed-Up, and Advanced Tools. The first four tabs require only that users press the Scan and Repair buttons. Expert users can choose to narrow or widen scans with a series of option check boxes, but the default settings will work for most. There are many similar applications, but testers reported that this app hit the most important scans and performed them with decent speed.

System Security scans for critical updates not installed, untrusted start-up items, problem plug-ins, services, and processes. Critical updates are generously explained, but only basic information was given for everything else. The Registry and Privacy cleanup functions follow the same areas used in most cleanup tools. The System Speedup function performs a quick analysis, but fails to inform users what is changed to speed up the system. The program helpfully includes single-click options to restore System Security, Registry Cleanup, and System Speedup changes.

Windows Doctor's Advanced Tools perform good analysis and allow for easy changes to services, processes, BHOs, and start-up programs. The demo limits cleaning many of the problems, but repairs enough to prove this program's worth. Any user looking for a full system analysis and cleanup suite should give Windows Doctor a test run.

 

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Publisher's Description

From Safe Data Recovery Technology:

Still frustrated by slow computer and PC errors? Worried about your computer security and privacy? Tired of switching among dozens of tools to maintain your computer? Windows Doctor can set you free from all those problems. Windows Doctor is a comprehensive PC care utility that can help you easily protect, maintain and optimize your computer. It provides an all-in-one solution for your PC's daily maintenance and protection. It combines 14 essential and practical tools for Windows so that with a few mouse clicks, you can fix registry errors, clean privacies, prevent security threats, clean Windows temp files, manage startups, recover lost data, split/shred files, repair Windows, speed up system and more.

What's new in this version: Version 2.7.1 improves Registry Defrag function.

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