Although, the most popular operating system at the present includes a sort of Computer diagnostics tools, such as PC Health, Dr Watson, and others, those applications are not exactly what the consumer expects from a full PC diagnostics suite to protect their costly equipment an the invaluable information contained within.

There is a large number of PC diagnostics software offered on a shareware basis. This software is usually provided fully functional for a limited period of time to allow consumers to test the features and if the program fulfills their expectations, the programmer typically is paid a one-time fee. Some of those PC diagnostics applications offered under this mode are:

TuneUP Utilities

Computer diagnostics applications provided by TuneUp Software

International, one of the pioneer companies in PC diagnostics software since 1997, and the top utility producer in the German speaking area of Europe. From its headquarters in Darmstadt, a city close to Frankfurt, Germany, TuneUP Utilities has literally "saved the life" of many computer systems by detecting conditions that can be easily fixed by the end-user.

As of 2006, more than 300,000 copies of TuneUp 97, the original, has been sold, creating one of the most successful PC diagnostics utilities available on the German market, usually referred as the mother of all tuning and computer diagnostics tools. With the release of PC diagnostics TuneUp Utilities 2003 the product was introduced internationally.

Today, the acclaimed TuneUP Utilities 2006 PC diagnostics software is available in German, French, Dutch and English language, as innovative as the first day, offering one of the most complete and friendly computer diagnostics solutions, with free trials software and affordable registrations fee.

Dr. Hardware 2006

Another one of the pioneer companies founded in 1994, but running on MS-Dos platforms since the earlier days. Dr. Hardware is considered among the most advanced PC diagnostics system information programs on the market, made for both the beginner and the expert user.

This PC diagnostics software runs on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 200x, XP, XP and x64 operating systems, and offers improved analysis of multi-Core CPUs. Computer diagnostics include detection of AMD SVM feature (Secure Virtual Machine), plus support to new Athlon 64, Opteron and Sempron processors and Pentium4 trace cache.

ASTRA, Advanced Sysinfo Tool and Reporting Assistant

Another featured PC diagnostics software running in all Windows versions, like the other two mentioned above, but this is one of the last offering MS-Dos support for system restore purposes used by repair professionals

PC diagnostics performed includes computer configuration analysis and general Computer diagnostics returning detailed information about your computer's hardware and devices operational modes, including reports on motherboard, CPU, hard disks, memory modules, chipset, PnP devices, monitor, video card, etc.

Natalie Aranda writes on computer and information technology. There is a large number of PC diagnostics software offered on a shareware basis. This software is usually provided fully functional for a limited period of time to allow consumers to test the features and if the program fulfills their expectations, the programmer typically is paid a one-time fee. Some of those PC diagnostics applications offered under this mode are TuneUP Utilities, Dr. Hardware 2006 etc.

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