Free full version: Advanced SystemCare Pro

PCs should be used as a means to get things done and to do work for you. Due to slowness, however, it always ends up in the fact that you have to deal with your computer yourself – more than you actually wanted? Depending on the level of knowledge, a few minutes to hours of research are required to uncover and get rid of performance sinners in order to bring the slowing pace back into shape.

With a competent Windows optimization program you have it easier: Advanced System Care Pro for example, which we are distributing here as a full version, will automatically scan your computer and detect brakes. Garbage data clogging the drive and applications that destroy your computer’s lightning-fast response to inputs will take you out of circulation. Even the free version of Advanced SystemCare with “Free” in the name seems innovative, as it brings an AI mode (Kartificial Iintelligence) to find junk data. Advanced SystemCare Pro is even better – it actually costs money and you can download it for free afterwards. The range of functions is a little more lavish here.

What does Advanced SystemCare Pro do?

The Glary Utilities once offered something similar, but no longer. Advanced SystemCare Free/Pro is currently the only application that covers this. The application checks your computer for “anti-virus protection” and “firewall”, as well as scans for “spyware removal” and “security reinforcement”.

Depending on the number of activated one-click maintenance checkpoints, a system check can take several minutes. It’s worth the effort if a sparkling system is your goal. You can create this by either accepting all optimization suggestions such as deleting temporary files in one go or just ironing out individual OS weaknesses that have been detected. In another module, you end background programs and services that are classified as potentially unnecessary and terminable with a check mark – and in this way give your PC small boosts.

It is possible to switch off autostarts and background services permanently – thanks to an autostart manager utility, which mainly shows “Startup Entries” in sections, you can also see “Services” and “Scheduled Tasks”. A permanent Windows acceleration beckons during tuning operations in the segment, which is still effective even after a system restart.

What does Advanced SystemCare Pro do better than Free?

Some features and settings are labeled “Pro” in Advanced SystemCare. This is available in both the free and the pro version. With regular use, you will see again and again where your Advanced SystemCare Pro full version offers added value. While the free version bothers you with a purchase offer in the browser when you click on such buttons, you are spared this with the exclusively offered Pro Edition of the application.

An overview of a selection of interesting Pro-exclusive functions:

• under “Accelerate > Realtime Tune-Up” the attitude “Automatic RAM cleaning”
• the under “Speed ​​up > More optimization tools” reloadable tool “Smart RAM 3.0” (“Smart RAM compression technology to free up memory”)
• the under “Speed ​​up > More optimization tools” reloadable “IObit Internet Booster” (used to set TCP/IP, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Edge for more speed and security)
• the under “Speed ​​up > More optimization tools” reloadable “IObit Registry Cleaner” (Registry Cleaner)
• under “Protect > System Protection” the attitude “Anti Spyware”
• under “Protect > Privacy Protection” the options “Fingerprint Protection” and “Anti Tracking”
• in the settings window: under “Clean & Optimize > Clean Registry”: option “Enable deep cleaning”
• in the settings window: under “Clean & Optimize > System Optimization”: various usage profile presets*
• in the settings window: under “Clean & Optimize > internet acceleration”: various usage profile presets*
• in the settings window: under “Automatic Service > Auto Maintenance” (PC maintenance when the system is idle or at a fixed time)

*: Further information can be found in the following article paragraph.

Tuning presets: optimize the PC depending on the purpose and internet connection

“System Optimization” (see “Clean & Optimize > System Optimization”) does the following: “Optimizes Windows for best system performance and maximum Internet speed by freeing up system reserves based on the respective usage profile of the PC and network.” It is promised that the Best optimization technology can turn your system into a business PC, a productive workstation, an entertainment center, a game machine or a scientific PC.

Various options are available for this in a drop-down menu: “Basic setting”, “Daily use (private)”, “Top performance (private)”, “Office work (business)” and “Server (business)”. The setting panel provided under “Clean & Optimize > Internet Acceleration” is designed to boost web speed depending on how your PC is connected to the Internet. The drop-down options include the presets “Basic settings”, “DSL”, “LAN”, “Dial-up modem”, “FIOS” (fiber optic network) and “Wireless” (WLAN standards IEEE-802.11a, b ,g,n,ac,ax).

Alternatively, you can stop using your computer by going to the settings using the three-line icon in the top right corner and then “Settings > System Optimization”. Or you can click on the screw symbol on the “Maintenance” program start page after moving the mouse over to “System Optimization”. Proceed in the same way to determine the type of your Internet connection. To optimize System settings and Internet in tweaking fashion, make sure both scan options are ticked on the home page (AI mode disabled). Then press the “Check” button. The application works fairly transparently, so you can find out what changes it wants to make based on descriptive texts.

Deactivate software – to relieve the PC

This is also possible with Advanced SystemCare Free, but is just as useful with “Pro”: Under “Accelerate” you can use the symbols at the bottom right to install additional software. The first three icons there belong to “Pro”-exclusive programs, you use the fourth character equally with the Free/Pro version of Advanced SystemCare; it is the “program disabler”. With this you relieve your PC, whereby instead of uninstalling programs, you leave them on your computer and only stop their background services and prevent them from starting.

Programs that have been switched off are displayed along with their load level. A mouse click on “Disable” puts the respective unwanted program on a leash. You may know a similar function from the discontinued TuneUp Utilities or from CCleaner 6. With the latter, the feature is chargeable, with Advanced SystemCare you get something similar for free. The function is relatively rare and does not work miracles. We see them as a little more useful than preset-based tweaking (change settings depending on PC usage, see article paragraph above).

Load more programs and strengthen the tuning suite

Under “Speed ​​up” you’ll find a three-dot icon in the bottom right, it’s the fifth and last character in the row of icons. A mouseover reveals in a tooltip that this is about “More Tools”. For the tasks you want, download them with a mouse click. This is how you increase the range of features of Advanced SystemCare Pro according to your preferences.

For example, get a registry defragmenter, a system info tool (which even shows the size of the windows registry), an automatic windows shutdown tool, a disk doctor (finds file system errors) and “system control”. The latter is a tweaker that looks closely related to the earlier TuneUp System Control. The “hard disk cleaner” finds garbage files and deletes them automatically; it is operated in the manner of an assistant. There is also a file shredder, an empty folder finder, a duplicate file finder, a memory hog file detective and a process manager as a Windows task manager alternative.

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Advanced SystemCare Pro: Get a key and unlock the software for free

Would you like to use Advanced SystemCare Pro? Download and install the program. After the start, it is initially still the free version. To upgrade it to the full version, use the serial number that you can find in the ZIP archive where we offer the application for download. Click “Enter Code” at the bottom left of the program. Then copy and paste the zipped number into the dialog window that opens and confirm with “Register now”.