| The Reimage online service has, over the past few | | | | quarterly basis against each of the machines (a |
| years, been helping Windows users who require a | | | | desktop PC for music production, a work laptop used |
| computer maintenance and repair solution, but do not | | | | for work and a media centre desktop PC). The initial |
| wish to pay for expensive technician costs or be | | | | scan takes 30 minutes and is completely automated |
| without their computer for any period of time. I have | | | | and I am happy to report that it has performed |
| been using Reimage since Fall 2008 on 3 PCs, during | | | | excellently every time. |
| which time they have benefited from staying stable, | | | | The initial PC troubleshooting scan highlighted a lot of |
| fast, virus-free computers as a result of using | | | | damaged system files which it was able to repair using |
| Reimage. | | | | the online repository of healthy files. I allotted these |
| What is Reimage? | | | | faults to installation/removal of dozens of applications |
| Reimage is a PC maintenance software service | | | | and hardware upgrades I had made to the PCs over |
| available over the internet that can make your | | | | their lifespan. The native O/S drivers were also |
| Windows XP machine run like new, without needing to | | | | highlighted as out-of-date. |
| reinstall Windows XP and without loss of personal | | | | Once Reimage had remedied all the faulty/missing files |
| data. | | | | identified and the full system reboot I noted the PC did |
| It checks the health of your system files in a 30 minute | | | | boot up a lot faster, application stability had improved |
| scan, diagnoses operating system (OS) problems, and | | | | (especially using older software which had benefited |
| replaces objects detected as faulty or missing on the | | | | from driver upgrades) and better internet connection |
| PC using a spare parts repository of 25 million files. | | | | performance (probably due to the modem's driver |
| After viewing the scan results, a 30 minute online pc | | | | upgrade). |
| repair process can be run to fix all the faults. It finishes | | | | Thankfully, no personal data regarding login details |
| up by rebooting the PC for the repairs to take effect. | | | | personal settings in applications/etc. were lost at any |
| Reimage realized that files can become faulty or go | | | | point while the Reimage PC maintenance software's |
| missing over time as a result of software installations, | | | | repair process was running. This was a key point in |
| virus harm, defective drivers, broken registry entries or | | | | running this on my work laptop which I use daily so |
| just not being kept up to date with the latest versions. | | | | needed to turnaround repairs in a single evening. It only |
| Reimage can do the troubleshooting and then repair all | | | | needed 45 minutes as it turned out (30 minute scan |
| of these faults. | | | | plus 15 minute repairing) and repaired Windows XP |
| Does Reimage Actually Work? | | | | without needing to re-format the drives, while leaving |
| I have used Reimage since September 2008 on three | | | | my user data and applications intact! |
| different PCs. In this time, I have run a full scan on a | | | | |