Since the recession started taking hold in 2007 there has been an increasing number of people recycling technology with even Windows XP users foregoing upgrades. In this Reimage review the use of PC maintenance software is explored to show how it is facilitating XP’s ongoing viability.
Even before the recession started many users were already quite content with using XP.
- From service pack 2 onward it was both secure and stable.
- Vista was panned by the critics and users alike which put off a good deal of people from making an upgrade.
- Computers from the year 2000 onward were already sufficiently fast enough (CPU/RAM) for the majority of users, reducing the need to upgrade hardware for performance reasons.
The main downside of XP’s reprise is that, like other computers, it becomes buggy with time as users install more and more applications.
Reimage PC maintenance software started out as an online service (it runs within a browser) to automatically scan and repair XP machines. Over the last seven years it has built a substantial repository of data and files for making effective repairs.
The application scans the file system (both system & third party application files) for faults. This includes looking for missing files, out-of-date file versions and damage caused by viruses. The registry is also analyzed for erroneous keys or other damage.
The repairs usually take under 30 minutes to download updated healthy files to install from their repository of over 25 million files and resets registry keys using optimal settings maintained in their knowledge base of healthy configuration settings.
Using Reimage does not mean you can foregoe your own maintenance duties for XP. You should still regularly schedule Windows Updates, anti-virus definition updates and clean out unused applications. The Reimage repair software should be viewed as an automated tool to run when you are stumped about how to fix blue screen exceptions, corrupted registry files and slow XP PCs.
