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- on Mon 08 Mar 2010
- 09:18:22 PM UTC
interesting
I can think of 2 members that may be interested in downloading the exe and key for testing and posting blog entries.
MysteryFCM and BobJam;-)
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- on Tue 09 Mar 2010
- 03:59:56 AM UTC
Is this what you're talking about?
http://www.techjaws.com/uniblue-offering-rogue-sof...
and
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5306-uniblue-again
(My post on RegistryBooster and the blog post are essentially the same, but it may be moderately enlightening ["re-enlightening"?] to read over the entire WOT thread).
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- on Tue 09 Mar 2010
- 10:21:46 AM UTC
no
those were the trial versions...
I'd thought you do another test with the full version as linked above - full download and unlock key good for 1 year.
I'm wondering if an unlocked version would display as many errors as the trial version.
If it display same amount then even the paid version is as rogue as the "trial"
If the unlocked version shows less amount of errors than the trial did, then you have to wonder why the trial is "off" in comparison. -
- on Thu 11 Mar 2010
- 09:10:56 PM UTC
Preliminary results . . .
SpeedUpMyPC is NOT the same product as RegistryBooster.
RegistryBooster is a registry cleaner, while SpeedUpMyPC is one of those "tune up optimizer" thingys, a la TuneUp Utilities. SpeedUpMyPC modifies files, not registry keys.
Consequently, I was unable to do my CCleaner/Auslogics dance to compare it. (CCleaner may have some optimization functions, but so far I've been unable to match them with the SpeedUpMyPC functions because they're named differently . . . among other things)
Back when I was using Windows, I did indeed download and run that "TuneUp Utilities", as a trial version, and it really messed up my machine. It had a restore function, but it was only available with the paid version. So, rather than buy what I concluded was a useless piece of crap, I just flat out did an image restore and got my machine back to the way it was before I ran TuneUp Utilities.
If SpeedUpMyPC has a restore function that undoes the "optimization" settings, I was unable to find it. Nevertheless, even if I had found one I likely wouldn't have tried "optimize" anyway . . . to paraphrase myself, as far as I'm concerned "optimization" software is "crapware" (though I'm sure some experienced folks here would argue otherwise).
Plus, being authored by Uniblue makes it dubious anyway.
(I'm not impressed with these "optimization" utilities, and performance tweaks can be done reliably WITHOUT them anyway.)
So, I did in fact run the SpeedUpMyPC scan, but I did NOT have it "optimize" . . . pointless anyway without a comparison. (The reason I ran the scan in the first place is because I thought, like you, it was the retail version of the trial "RegistryBooster". Once I saw that it was an entirely different product and NOT a registry cleaner, all bets were off)
Whether it is a rogue depends on how noobs would interpret the scan results. And, as with registry cleaners, it is essential that you know what changing something will mean. For example, SpeedUpMyPC produces a result in its "Startup tweaks" scan that says it will "Disable distributed link tracking client service". That bit of geek lingo would probably be obscure to a noob, but they would probably "trust" SpeedUpMyPC to do the "right" thing. (That's just an example, not necessarily saying doing that would screw up your machine).
When I ran the scan, I got 218 items that SpeedUpMyPC said "require optimization":
Most of them were trivial (especially in the "Privacy files" section, which consisted mostly of MRU links . . . but the reference to places.sqlite in my FF profile alarmed me a little . . . I'm assuming it would simply compact the sqlite db, but I don't like anything messing with my FF profile unless I trust it.).
Here's a sample of the "Privacy files" results:
And the "Network tweaks" results:
"Windows tweaks" results:
"Startup tweaks" results:
Anyway, since it was an "optimizer" rather than a registry cleaner, there was no comparison to RegistryBooster. I may mess around with it some more, but it may also get lost on the back burner.
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- on Mon 08 Mar 2010
- 10:30:44 PM UTC
paid advertising
They were paid to publish the advertising.
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- on Tue 09 Mar 2010
- 03:05:24 AM UTC
Uniblue
If you have doubts about the validity of the software then don't use it. There is plenty of other legitimate software that does the job. Go to http://www.filehippo.com and find what you want for free, safe in the knowledge that the software will be clean.
Unbelievable! A Finnish PC-magazine promotes rogue software!
I order a Finnish PC-magazine called KotiMikro. In every magazine they have a CD full of programs. CD 4/2010 has Uniblue's SpeedUpMyPC, in full version. They made up a 6 page article of the program and how to use it!
Proofs:
http://mag.uniblue.com/kotimikro/sp/signup/ - Free keycode, KotiMikro exclusive (But everyone can use it to get a free key! :O).
http://kotimikro.fi/tietoja-lehdesta/cd/cd-42010 - CD 4/2010 information (Finnish), shows pics of SpeedUpMyPC.
And moar. No pics of the article, though. Too lazy. :3
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