ou should not have to trust me. You should be able to check.

Open a fix in PCRescue Kit. Before anything runs you see the name of what it does. The command it will execute, printed in full. A label that says Safe, Caution, or Advanced. How long it takes. One sentence about what will be different when it finishes.

Nothing happens until you press the button.

You know the other version. A progress bar. A red number. 2,847 problems found. One button that says Fix All. What did it change? You have no idea. What was one of those 2,847 problems? It will not say.

A tool doing real work has no reason to hide the work. Clearing a cache folder is an ordinary thing. So is stopping a service. So is emptying the Recycle Bin. You hide the command for one of two reasons. Either it does almost nothing, or it does something you would not have agreed to.

Hiding the command is the tell.

So I show it. Copy any command you see. Paste it into a search engine. Read what it does from someone who is not me. I would rather you check me than trust me.

I will not show you an invented number either. Your computer does not have 2,847 problems. If a check finds nothing wrong, the Kit says so and moves on. A tool that always finds a disaster is not looking at your computer. It is looking at your wallet.

More on which PC utilities are fake, useless, or harmful: fake, useless, or harmful. And what a real tech will never ask you to do: read this one.

Available soon. The download is free. Install it and read what every fix does without paying me anything. The full version at pcrescue.me/kit is $49, one time, or free with a paid PCRescue Membership.

Mike
PCRescue | Portland, ME