Advanced SystemCare Ultimate for Windows

IObit's Advanced SystemCare Ultimate is the one-stop shop for all things computer performance. Improving upon its free advanced SystemCare alternative, Ultimate adds more functionality with greater depth. Users can also benefit from IObit's own anti-virus feature to help protect against dangers online, including various modes for gamers and those that work with heavy resource-intensive applications.

Advanced SystemCare Ultimate has most, if not all, of the functionality one might need when looking to optimize computer performance and security. However, if it isn't cutting it for you, perhaps Wise Care 365 or Total System care will have what you are looking for.

Improving upon the foundations

Advanced SystemCare Ultimate builds upon the functionality offered in their free SystemCare version. That means that users can benefit from the same functionality plus more when upgrading to the Ultimate version of the software. 

Ultimate users can now use integrated browser protection, including real-time protection, which helps protect against viruses, spyware, and more. Keeping potential threats at bay is crucial when surfing online, which is why the privacy shield is an essential addition to your overall security. 

Advanced SystemCare Ultimate’s anti-virus is one of their flagship offerings, allowing users to activate many protective settings. Browser anti-tracking, real-time protection, and an integrated firewall are just to name a few. The silent mode helps to minimize resource use while muting non-critical alerts, allowing you to continue streaming/gaming unimpeded. 

Another great feature added to their anti-virus is homepage protection. In essence, this prevents any software from modifying your homepage without your permission. A useful tool if you torrent files online regularly. 

Optimizing with each feature

Despite having a fleshed-out anti-virus at your disposal, the real reason to use Advanced SystemCare Ultimate is for its scan capabilities. Before optimizing your scans, an additional feature will prove helpful for everyone: the ability to conduct startup optimization. This enables users to manage extra start-up items and prevent them from negatively impacting PC performance. 

Once done, You can run the various scans via the scan button on the main dashboard. You then have access to multiple parameters to determine what files are actually scanned. IObit has included an automatic fix option - presumably for those that just want to quickly select the best choice and have things automatically fixed without manual input. A valuable feature for a quick solution. 

After a complete scan, you can move on to make use of Ultimate's junk file clean, which finds junk files on your PC and cleans these up to prevent risks of crashes. On top of the cleaning capabilities of junk file clean, Ultimate provides many features from Shortcut fixes, vulnerability fixes, privacy sweeps, registry defragmentation, and more.

PC improvements

In our experience with the free version of Advanced SystemCare, it showed that the performance is noticeable on more cluttered devices, and this is the same for the Ultimate version. After running a complete scan and using the more intricate features on offer in the Ultimate version, it's clear that there is a tangible change in the performance and speed of one's PC. Users of office spaces or download heavy devices should notice an immediate difference. 

Next, we took a deeper dive into the security and protection features inaccessible to the standard edition. For the most part, having Ultimate's features running goes largely unnoticed. This is due to many of the features being passively active - in that they are actively guarding against threats but do not require the user's direct input (most of the time) to make them noticeable. As a result, it can be challenging to see the effect it is having on your device at face value. However, with that said, we didn't get hacked during this period, so that holds some merit.

Does the Ultimate give you the ultimate experience

There's no doubt that Advanced SystemCare Ultimate builds upon its standard version with increasingly more robust functionality. The additional security options are nice add-ons and would be of great benefit to businesses looking to implement security features across their devices. 

While many of these features may go unnoticed for those using a regular everyday PC, the security components will give peace of mind that you're always protected when surfing the web.