Number 286 - March 2007
VCom System Suite 7- The King Of Utility Suites
by Vinny La Bash, vlabash@comcast.net,
Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc.


   There's nothing like having all your answers in one place, especially when it's the very best of what will satisfy your needs. When its all addressed together in one utility suite designed to find, fix, and prevent computer problems, you could hardly ask for more. Where does such a utilitarian program exist? You will find the best answer to that question in VCom's System Suite 7 from Avanquest.

VCom is a well-recognized purveyor of high quality utility software. A visit to its website (v-com.com) will enlighten you to a superb collection of important utilities. Some of the most outstanding of these are collected together in Vcom's System Suite 7. Each of its components represents a comprehensive and powerful solution to protective and functional problems that face every computer owner. Here's what you will find in this king of quality software utilities:

1. SYSTEM PROTECTION
   A full-featured antivirus program, a net-defense firewall providing complete 2-way protection both incoming and outbound, and anti-spyware protection including, adware, worms, viruses and trojans.. Each offers top-notch, full-time, continuous duty, state of the art security against the most prevalent threats to computers.

   2. DIAGNOSIS:
   A variety of components that will find and fix both hardware and software problems:

   PC Diagnosics - will perform a series of more than100 different tests to root out hardware problems among all your computer's components including memory, hard drives, network cards, USB connections, video cards and components, audio devices, peripheral devices, CD/DVD drives, input devices, and monitors.

   System Explorer and System Monitor - Examines and reports on all concurrent computer operations including usage of memory, resources, and all other most vital statistics pertaining to current computer operation

   SMARTdisk Check - Examine your hard drive(s) to detect any sign of drive problems and early failure.

   Error Tracker - Logs and keeps track of Windows error messages.

   Media Verifier - The best way to examine your removable media to see if they contain any errors. Th easiest way to find out of the CD/DVD you just created is error-free and functional.

3. FIX AND MAINTAIN:
   Registry Fixer - Find and fix registry errors.

   Disk Fixer - Automatically diagnose and fix disk problems.

   Windows Updates - Get the latest update for Windows.

   Registry Editor - Edit your system registry.

   System Scheduler - Run System Suite components automatically at the shedules times you choose.

   Clock Sync - Synchronize your computer's time with the Atomic Clock.

4. OPTIMIZE:
   Startup Commander - View and modify your list of items that startup with your computer.

   Jet Defrag - Defragment and optimize your hard drives.

   Registry Defrag - Defragment your hard drives to maximize computer speed.

   Size Manager - Finds oversized files and folders.



5. CLEANUP: -
   Selectively cleanup your cache, Internet history, Internet plug-ins, Internet cookies, Internet Active-X, unused files, unused registry entries, and temporary files. You can do each with single-click ease.

6. RECOVERY:
   Here's a series of utilities, previously components of Ontrack's separate and well-known Recovery Commander (now an integral part of System Suite) that can offer recovery from your mistakes, all common among us.

   File Undeleter - Recover what you wished you had not gotten rid of.

   Create/Restore Checkpoints - Before you perform an operation that you might later regret, or before creating any significant change, you can create a checkpoint that will lead you back to the time preceding your error to restore your system.

   Rescue Disk - Here's a real lifesaver for that moment when for reasons unknown you can't bootup your computer.

   Undo It - Undo changes made by System Suite.

7. UNINSTALL:
   Uninstall - Delete a program and all its files.

   Backup - Backup an application and its installed files.

   Restore - Restore an application and its backed-up files.

   Move - Move and install an application.

   Transport - Copy an application to another computer.

8. ZIP:

   All the necessary procedures in working with Zip files. Create, restore, extract, mail, convert, backup and repair Zip files.

   Now that's a comprehensive list of vital utilities if ever there was one. Combined with a graphic, button-click interface, it is one of the easiest to operate programs in existence. System Suite is a powerhouse application that belongs on every computer. You will use some of its components continuously. For some, you will offer a prayer of thanksgiving for having them when you are in desperate need.

   The tune-up alone features in System Suite will make your computer run faster and more efficiently. The list of models provides the most comprehensive functions all in one program that is available. I have put each and every one through testing and all work easily and exactly as advertised. If you want to give yourself and your faithful computer a great Christmas present, this is the one to get! List price: $44.95 V-Com.com :

   Copyright 2006. This article is from the December 2006 issue of the Sarasota PC Monitor, the official monthly publication of the Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc., P.O. Box 15889, Sarasota, FL 34277-1889. Permission to reprint is granted only to other non-profit computer user groups, provided proper credit is given to the author and our publication.
  Number 286 - March 2007