(We had to turn them off using another of System Mechanic 6 Professional's features, the Advanced Startup Manager.) These are usually time-consuming tests to run and are not always accurate even after we turned them off, the executables for those tests continued to run in the background, slowing down application loading. We also didn't care for the Dashboard feature that first analyzes, then displays brief results on the speed, the safety, the fitness, the clutter, the updates, the active care, and the overall health and security of your system. It's not that we objected to the surfacing of wizards in the upper-right corner of the window or the way Tips, News, and Updates now take up the bottom third of the screen, but these changes are not configurable they take up precious screen real estate, even if you don't use the wizards or want to be reminded which tools haven't been run lately.

However, not all of the interface changes are for the better. Various utilities within System Mechanic 6 Professional are accessed from one of five category buttons on the left: Optimize, Clean, Repair, Protect, and Maintain.

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