Q What is your opinion on these fix-it programs that promise to analyze your system and correct problems? I got one that said I had more than 200 problems on my system. Is there a free checkup like… ...

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A My general feeling is these programs find more problems than exist, then seek to impress you by fixing them. That’s marketing. But they also try to fix some problems that don’t exist. That ...

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