Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system.

A company without name and address, but a phone number.

We had a previous version PCBoost 4.9.9 on September 27th, 2013.

And a big claim :
Install PCBoost to instantly increase the speed of your computer. Applications such as games, video production and photo editors are immediately faster. Download and buy your copy of PCBoost today!

Hmmm. After my basic knowledge as a newbie, the computer speed is determined by processor speed, memory speed (timing...), the bus speed defined by the manufacturer of the main board, than access to disks and that's it. There is no way to increase my computer speed without going into cpu clock cycles, memory cycles. Everything else is simply pure marketing.

You can of course change privileges, but this does in no case affect the speed of the computer.

Okay, I run a first test to see, how my computer is working:

http://i.imgur.com/M1VE3NJ.png

Great! I've got a pure 10! ten out of ten. This benchmark is simply useless. It does not show, what's really going on.

The "detailed" computer processor statistics is not detailed...

http://i.imgur.com/aizfulU.png

If you like such gimmicks, you can immediately "speed up", not not your computer...

Uninstalled via reboot. I don't buy snake oil, but elephant powder...

Karl  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+230)

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Over the years I've seen many people convinced by others to change their computer because it's old and getting slower.
They seem to think it's like a car that wears out and sellers of computers are happy to reinforce this concept.
Interestingly enough certain programs run faster on single core machines than on multicore, apparently caused by the system having to manipulate usage of the cores.
Certainly multicore machines can have a profound influence on video programs and image manipulation programs where the order of the process doesn't have to be linear.
As a developer I can set the priority within my program and have tested changing it when they are running, to be honest have never seen a noticeable difference in the overall performance of my computer after this change.
It is a shame that companies bring out software of this nature as they only confuse inexperienced computer users, ripping off PC users appears to be endemic at the moment, hence my leanings towards android tablets where possible.

Over the years I've seen many people convinced by others to change their computer because it's old and getting slower. They seem to think it's like a car that wears out and sellers of computers are happy to reinforce this concept. Interestingly enough certain programs run faster on single core machines than on multicore, apparently caused by the system having to manipulate usage of the cores. Certainly multicore machines can have a profound influence on video programs and image manipulation programs where the order of the process doesn't have to be linear. As a developer I can set the priority within my program and have tested changing it when they are running, to be honest have never seen a noticeable difference in the overall performance of my computer after this change. It is a shame that companies bring out software of this nature as they only confuse inexperienced computer users, ripping off PC users appears to be endemic at the moment, hence my leanings towards android tablets where possible.
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XP-Man  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+72)

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I did not state that multicore computers were slower; I stated that certain programs ran slower on multicore processors.
A number of years ago experiments were carried out and these were the results, there is a big different between a program running slower and the speed of a computer system where many processes are running.
Regarding the registry; yes I have seen dramatic improvements in speed after running a registry clean up, removing MRU’s on a machine with a very slow broadband connection would bring it back to maximum speed again. Also, on a machine with an eight year old XP install was having great difficulty chugging along and again a registry cleanup did improve performance.

In essence you cannot make generalisations regarding computer systems, registry, multicore, as the complexity and interaction between components is far too complex, hence my statement that certain programs ran slower.

I did not state that multicore computers were slower; I stated that certain programs ran slower on multicore processors. A number of years ago experiments were carried out and these were the results, there is a big different between a program running slower and the speed of a computer system where many processes are running. Regarding the registry; yes I have seen dramatic improvements in speed after running a registry clean up, removing MRU’s on a machine with a very slow broadband connection would bring it back to maximum speed again. Also, on a machine with an eight year old XP install was having great difficulty chugging along and again a registry cleanup did improve performance. In essence you cannot make generalisations regarding computer systems, registry, multicore, as the complexity and interaction between components is far too complex, hence my statement that certain programs ran slower.
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XP-Man  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+48)

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'PCBoost by PGWARE' had been reviewed and rated as 'POOR' by
Softpedia Editor in 2005. Also many users have expressed their disappointment about this. I don't want to be dissappointed right now and I shouldn't be because I have been using following Freeware programs alternatively.

*Process Lasso

*Process Tamer

*Mz CPU Accelerator

*FreeRAM XP Pro (=>SOFTPEDIA PICK)

*Wise Game Booster Portable

* GBoost

 Thanks 

Jahid  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+91)

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After reading the above comments by Karl and Jahid and the full review at Softpedia whom I believe they know what they are talking about , the scariest part in the review is this :(Lets go through the list,, On startup they get your Name/Serial and computer IP Address, and they don't guarantee that they will not sell it to anyone that's willing to buy it)!! I think there is no need to test the program any further with all respect to the publisher .

Alan Rayan  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+61)

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