Maintenance Checkup Home Edition 2005 for Windows

Used Maintenance Checkup Home Edition 2005 for Windows?

Editors’ Review

Download.com staffNovember 7, 2008

This program combines a suite of useful system utilities with a rather unimpressive antispyware tool. When you first launch Maintenance Checkup Home Edition, you'll notice most of the nonresizable main window's real estate is reserved for the devloper's logo and basic instructions; clicking the Show Advanced Options button takes you to the main control panel. The application quickly and capably removes items such as junk files, invalid registry keys and entries, cookies, and typed URLs. Although you can exclude certain types of files from the scan by unchecking a box, we wish you could specify which drives or folders the application should scour. It also would be nice if Maintenance Checkup Home Edition included a registry-backup tool in case it accidentally deleted a crucial component. As an antispyware tool, this program proved far less useful than specialized software, failing to remove the majority of the spyware we installed for testing purposes. When we tried to visit the developer's home page for help, many of the support links were inoperable. This app is certainly suitable for those who want to free their PCs from bloat, as long as they already have another more capable program for exterminating spyware.

Maintenance Checkup Home Edition 2005 for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: July 21, 2006

Latest update: November 7, 2008

Version: 1.3.5

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, Internet, .Net FrameWork

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Total Downloads: 27,307

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User Reviews

3.1/5

28 User Votes

After running the program, the results weren't achieved
fjuradoMarch 30, 2011
Pros
I couldn't find any
Cons
It looks and old program. It seems it is not doing what it says it'll do.
Summary
Not recommendable
DANGER
super61June 8, 2008
Pros
none
Cons
SPYWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summary
HIDDEN SPYWARE!!!
bobthebuilder00June 23, 2007
Pros
Cons
This has software that transmits information about your system to their servers. Plus it has stolen code for other copywritten software (Symantec).
Summary
It gave instructions to download and that was it, no running of the software.
muetingMay 14, 2006
Pros
Cons
I downloaded the software and all I ended up with was membership to cnet. Looks like a scam.
Summary
Do NOT download this product
Watcher100February 18, 2006
Pros
None that I could see.
Cons
It tried to load .NET Framework on my computer even though it was already loaded. Stopped working after that. Thank goodness.
Summary
This program really sucks.
Scoob'June 14, 2005
Pros
It promises so much and the interface is fairly decent.
Cons
Was this guy on crack when he designed it? My quicktime stopped working when I chose the default settings. It seems to deep scan everything, but doesn't actually fix most of the problems it finds or they keep coming back. Use something else. I know it's a 1.0 but this thing should still be in alpha. Anyone who gives this crap a decent rating is probably sleeping with the coder.
Summary
Thoroughly hosed my system, hours to fix it.
gsumnersJune 13, 2005
Pros
Looks pretty.
Cons
I lost files due to the prog deleting files without advising that the folder in question would be emptied (NON-system folder with the name "Temp", used for catch-all before sorting and storing), borked my Quicktime hooks and messed up Java as well. Many ActiveX hooks just plain disappeared. <p> <p>This program doesn't do one critical thing: there's no "summary of pending changes" screen to read/edit and approve before it acts. <p> <p>Fixing the problem took running an "undelete" program to get the deleted files back on my NTFS-formatted drives, then I had to run a System Restore from earlier than the run of this product, and had to follow that with much software reloading to deal with the missing non-registry file entries and such. I was about at the point of salvaging my data and reformatting the boot drive when I finally fixed the last problem. Total labor time lost fixing the "maintenance" this program did? FOUR HOURS AND THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES. <p> <p>USE THIS PROGRAM AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Summary
Don't trust to remove spyware
Groucho MarxistJune 13, 2005
Pros
Pretty good for triming down HD bloat, but gives inaccurate readings of the amount of HD space it reclaims.
Cons
First of all you have to install SP3 for .NET before the thing will even run, then when you do get it up and running MCHE is slow. Very very slow. Grow a beard slow. It failed to identify spyware that Hijack this picked up. Identified Java components as spyware that weren't and deleted them, and on next startup identified spyware as present that it had already purported to have cleaned up last time it was run. The final straw was the fact it deleted entire directories of my wifes documents it shouldn't have even touched. Were it not for judciously making backups before running MCHE we would have been seriously annoyed. This product needs a major overhaul and some glowing testimonials from users before I'd trust it again.
Summary
This program is horrible!
Joe65June 12, 2005
Pros
Pretty pictures, that's it.
Cons
The spyware removal SUCKS! It keeps finding the same stuff and SAYING it's cleaning it, but doesn't. MS Anti-Spyware is much better. Why purchase this thing when so many BETTER anti-spyware programs are free? <p> <p>Then there's the registry cleanup. It's SLOW, and the "Invalid ActiveX Controls" scan broke multiple programs (especially browser plugins) on my system! <p> <p>The hard drive cleaning seemed okay, but it just went and deleted stuff without even asking me if I wanted to or not! There was no "pre-scan" to tell me how much space would be freed. And again, the process was slow! Haven't these guys heard of multi-threading? All of these scans seem to fire off in sequential order, rather than just all running at once using multiple system threads. Doing so would GREATLY inhance the performance. Also, it seems to be more interested in showing lots of frivilous numbers to impress you rather than actually DOING something. It seems to me the constant incrementing of numbers takes up more system time (and causes the program to run slower) than necessary. <p> <p>What's even more funny is that this publisher is claiming that this is such a wonderful product, and better than most when it's plainly not. (Especially in the anti-spyware realm, when the anti-spyware capabilities of this program are probably the worst I've ever seen!) This whole thing looks like a whole lot of marketing, with just barely enough actual "system cleanup" to get by. I can't believe they're actually charging people for it!
Summary
absolute garbage
cowboy22paApril 11, 2005
Pros
Cons
it tore my 2000 up. cant launch programs, killed my documents & recycle folders and god knows what else and it loaded a bunch of spyware. perhaps you should keep a closer eye on these new progs. i'll never try a brand new product on your site again thats not reviewed!!!!!!
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Developer’s Description

By Schrock Innovations

Combine spyware-removal functions with the commonly used Windows utilities.