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Dell System Diagnostic, or something else?
Hi,
decided to run a system diagnostic on my Dell PC today - just because it had never been done on this particular PC. Received a msg telling me Microsoft .Net Framework 4 Full would be required in order to install the Dell Diag. We have the lesser version .Net Framework 4 Client Profile. Was about to install the full version over top of Client Profile when it occurred to me that perhaps there was a better System Diagnostic tool out there anyway.
In fact it looks like there are quite a few. So I am here for recommendations. Would prefer not to pay for one if possible but certainly don't want to be cheap since this is our primary PC. Or should I install the Full Version of .Net Framework 4 & stick with the Dell diag?
Perhaps a little more info:
I ran something called Free PC Health Scan on the Dell website which then called into play iolo System Mechanic & it found a number of issues. Two items removed from startup which I already knew about & was going to remove myself when was certain there would be no negative repercussion. But what concerns me:
1) are the over 100 registry entries it flagged - I do run CCleaner several times throughout the week to remove old/left over/invalid registry entries. But apparently iolo found around 104 that need to be removed? & yes I know we're not supposed to muck about with registry but have been letting Norton, McAfee & CCleaner do their thing for a number of years now & to my knowledge have not damaged a registry yet. No longer run Norton or McAfee, have installed only Microsoft Security Essentials & Malwarebytes at this time.
2) Also indicated there may be some data corruption on the HD. It was a bit ambiguous on that point.
This is when I decided to run the diag.
iolo System Mechanic is not free, guess just the PC Health Scan was. Found some Dell threads where users had run System Mechanic on brand new Dell machines & because of all the Dell bloatware System Mechanic found all kinds of problems - on brand spanking new PC's.
Thank you