To be honest, I always stayed well clear of this type of software on the basis that the potential for harm exceeds the potential for good. And messing around with so-called 'registry cleaners / registry optimizers' is neither necessary nor desirable with XP-onwards Windows OS's. However . . .

One of the unique plusses of GOTD is the comments thread, and time and again I came across posts on here from XPMan -- who seems to have vanished of late: I hope he's OK and thriving -- about something called 'Kerish Doctor'. Seeing as XPMan was always a much-appreciated GOTDer, I figured that if he was recommending something (and especially, as he seemed to be as skeptical as I was about cleaners and optimizers) then this was worth a try.

Good call, XPMan. Unlike any and every other softare of this type that I've road tested -- including offerings from iObit, WiseCare, Glary Utilities, the former, though now discredited, jvPowerTools and numerous others -- Kerish Doctor has proved itself to be by far *the* most comprehensive, best thought-out and cleverly designed.

I don't allow it to run all the time on my Windows 7 desktop but it certainly does so on my wife's aged XP desktop / XP laptop where it's light on resource yet sensibly proactive in real time.

As ever: everyone's mileage will be different, and the fact that some folks have a positive experience doesn't infallibly mean that others' will be the same. That said though, on the basis of my own experience, I can only say that this software has proved to be the best of its kind, a remarkably comprehensive tool-set from a responsible developer which, thanks to GOTD today, is here available for nothing at all on a 12-month license and therefore well worth DLing by anyone who hasn't yet encountered it. If you don't like it, don't keep it.

Thanks, then, GOTD, and Kerish Products -- and thanks, too, as well as best wishes, to XPMan, wherever he is nowadays.

PS: hey, kudos to GOTD for providing a 'Sort by' facility: at last I can read posts in the order they were made, rather than coming in at the end of sometimes lengthy interchanges which make no sense when read backwards. 'Oldest' is still the best!

MikeR  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+50)

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DaddyCool  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+28)

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Although not that not that well known, Kerish Doctor has now been around for ten years. Not only does it do a good job, of cleaning and optimizing your system to make it run faster, the real-time protection, can also fix some problems too. As an example, a while back I ran some disk cleaning software, and it started deleting some of the system files which are part of Windows and needed for Windows to work (I really have no idea why it was doing this), and Kersih Doctor actually detected that these files were being deleted and replaced some of wrongly deleted files. This is not only really neat, but also is something that other utilities can't do.

Since this a year 1 year license, it will be able to download any updates it finds from the Update Center, which is handy as it continually being updated.

Unfortunately the registry cleaner will occasionally wrongly identify a valid regsitry key as being bad. However, to be fair, unlike with yesterday's giveaway it does not happen that often, and if I was to let Kersih delete these few registry keys, no serious harm would be done. I am going to email the developer about the bugs right now, and more than likely within a few days he will release an update which will fix them, and you will be able to download the update from the Update Center in Kerish Doctor. Based on my dealings with the developers over the last ten years I can say they are very helpful, and fix issues quickly.

I recommend Kerish Doctor, despite the minor bugs, and it is worth taking a look at as it is much smarter than the average utlility software. If you do encounter problems, I suggest you go the Kersih Doctor website and send a support request, and I'm sure they'll do their best to help you and fix the problems.

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Great Software. Fixes what it says it does. My desktop crashed, and K.D. Fixed it, straightaway.

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@Brian,

Downloaded, installed, activated, Crashed and tested .... All this in about 12 minutes !!!! ????

@Brian, Downloaded, installed, activated, Crashed and tested .... All this in about 12 minutes !!!! ????
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Jagadeesh  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+20)

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I have had this giveaway since it was last given away in November 2015.Nice program for basic housekeeping and maintenance,not too intrusive and does what it says.I have it installed on a Windows 7 Home Premium system with no issues whatsoever.
If you already have the program you do not need to reinstall it.Just follow the link in the download "read me" file to get your license code.Once you get the code go to the "about" section and use "activate another license code".Copy and paste the code sent to your email and you are done.The only downside is that it doesn't add a year to your present license, it resets and gives you a year starting today.I'll take it!
Thanks GOTD and Kerish!!

Alan Bickmore  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+20)

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