software review :: June

Registry Mechanic 8.0 is an advanced registry cleaner for Windows® that can safely clean, repair and optimize your registry in a few simple mouse clicks! Registry Mechanic is one of the most popular and easy to use registry cleaners on the market today, with 300,000+ downloads per week!

New features of Registry Mechanic 8.0:

New Plug-in architecture - Registry Mechanic 8.0 has been re-designed to have a new plug-in framework which means that additional features and tools can be easily incorporated into Registry Mechanic 8.0.
New User Interface (clean & clear design for simple navigation) - The interface in Registry Mechanic 8.0 has been re-designed to provide a clean, clear structure along with easy access to a selection of the most commonly used Windows features and Registry Mechanic 8.0 powerful features and tools. The new interface takes advantage of its latest plug-in technology, allowing for components and tools to be logically categorized and refreshed for easy accessibility. Furthermore, new features can be easily downloaded as soon as they are available via Smart Update.
Tune-up your services (improve system performance) - By tweaking the Microsoft® Windows® services, the service tuner feature has the ability to improve the performance of your computer and provide better start-up times. This feature changes the preference of non-essential Windows services which can result in fewer system resources being consumed to help your software run more efficiently.
Windows Management tools - Registry Mechanic 8.0 has incorporated a range of some of the most useful and popular Windows management tools in an easily accessible format. You can now access several useful Windows management components in one place at one time to take control of configuring your system simply and quickly. The Windows management tools are grouped into three categories – Computer, Security and System, each with their own set of related tools. For example, the Computer category includes access to the Windows tools:
- Computer management
- Windows Update
- System Restore
- System Properties
- System Information
- Control Panel

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Transfer and Backup Your Personal Data and Settings

CA Backup and Migration 2009 helps ensure your important files, photos, music, and PC settings are safe, by letting you quickly and easily back them up, restore them, or transfer them to a new PC.

Key Features

Supports up to 3 PCs
Windows Vista™ Support
Easy-to-Use Wizard Interface
Flexible Migration Methods
Easy-to-Use Migration Types
Cross-Operating System and Application Migration
Scheduled Backup
Undo File

Easy-to-use Wizard Interface quickly guides you through a data backup or transfer (migration)

Backup and Restore allows you to run scheduled or on-demand backups of your PC’s unique data, settings and preferences, save the that data to a CD or DVD to protect it from an unforeseen incident, and easily restore it if necessary

Data Migration allows you to quickly stream your PC’s unique data, settings, and preferences directly from your old PC running Windows 2000 or Windows XP to your new PC using Windows Vista™, either via an Ethernet crossover cable or by creating a new file to transfer your data, settings, and preferences to a new PC

Typical and Custom Backup and Migration Types let you perform a backup or migration of your most popular settings and data in just a few easy steps, or to specify the settings and data that you want to backup or transfer

Cross-operating System and Application Migration allow for seamless migration of settings you customized on your old PC running on a Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system to new application versions using a Windows Vista™ operating system

Self-extracting DNA Files allow you to restore your unique data, settings, and preferences or transfer those files to your new PC over a network or from a CD or DVD easily. Once the DNA file is on your new PC, simply double-click on the file and the data is migrated automatically to transfer your unique data, settings, and preferences to your new PC

Automated Disk-Spanning automatically spans your unique data, settings, and preferences files to the size of a CD and places the files in a folder on your desktop, for easy movement to a CD, DVD, or other removable media

Summary Screens provide comprehensive logging to track the progress and success of backups or migrations

Undo File allows you to return your PC to its pre-migration state easily and quickly

Web Update Feature helps keep your software up-to-date

system requirements:

Note: CA Backup and Migration 2009 does not currently support the following operating systems:
Windows XP 64 or Windows Vista 64
For Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 (SP 6a), ME, 2000, XP, or Vista: