There are no hidden secrets to a smoothly running PC. Keeping it clean and optimized at all times can make a world of difference in its performance, handling, and consequently, the quality of your interaction with it. Built for saving users from manually running maintenance and optimization tasks, System Mechanic Ultimate Defense, just as its baby brother, System Mechanic, aims at offering a complete package for cleaning and tweaking PCs, this time with even more useful functionality bundled into it.

Right after the swift deployment process, users will be prompted with options for running a general scan, which will quickly determine all impending issues. We believe this to be a good approach, as it enables one to “go straight to business”, without performing any configuration.

However, the generalized scan and its results are merely the “tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the app’s functionality and features arsenal. As we surely suspect, more demanding users will likely put to the test the entirety of those, and they sure have an extensive selection to choose from.

When going past the general aspects of optimization, one will be able to quickly perform more specific tasks. We enjoyed the fact that the app offers a neat, collapsible side-panel, which holds all of the features in a categorized manner, making for quick identification.

With features that offer parametric cleaning, in multiple segments of your PC’s performance, automated maintenance, and even a dedicated performance booster, there’s practically a tool addressing almost any potential issue that might occur, and this is almost ideal.

Two of the highlights of this release of System Mechanic Ultimate Defense are the ByePass and Malware Killer modules. The first is aimed at increasing the security when running Internet purchases, by preventing credentials theft that might occur when performing such operations.

The latter, Malware Killer, could be considered as the suite’s dedicated malware “crusher”, which can be used for identifying and deleting malware from already-infected PCs. This can be quite useful, as deploying security software in such circumstances can be a challenge on its own.

With a well-designed package, that strives at offering both increased user accessibility and comprehension, as well as a myriad of tools for more intricate tasks, this system optimizer can easily take multiple roles, a cleaner, Internet security extension, antivirus, and general maintenance tool, with flying colors.