Installation is simple, though you’re forced to register for an Iolo account and provide an email address (we used a throwaway). You can’t check for deleted or damaged partitions either. Sadly, the program is completely useless and couldn’t detect a single deleted file-except one in the Recycle Bin folder. The CD-ROM autorun gives you the option of running a data recovery program directly, which makes a lot of sense since installing software could overwrite the very file you need to save. There’s no indication of a software version number on the box, but once installed we were determined that it was v10.5.3 that we were seeing. A few of its functions are genuinely useful, but most of them either duplicate simple existing Windows functionality, simply don’t work, or go so overboard that they’re actually dangerous. Iolo System Mechanic Professional seems stuck in an older era and relies on tired tricks like cleaning out your browser cache and cookies to “improve performance”. The opening screen with a system health meter
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