

The product uses the same dark blue background, with white text and as-if glowing blue icons. Installing Advanced SystemCare Ultimate is just as quick and simple as installing the basic tune-up utility. Still, our Editors' Choice tune-up utilities remain Iolo System Mechanic and AVG TuneUp. Advanced SystemCare Pro earned 3.5 stars in our review. Exercising the test system after tune-up, we found it noticeably snappier.
ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE 15 REVIEW FULL
Time tests, detailed in the full review, showed that the tune-up process measurably improved performance. Given the need for constant vigilance and antivirus updates, the subscription model does make sense. Advanced SystemCare Ultimate, like almost every other antivirus tool, is a subscription, $49.99 per year.
ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE 15 REVIEW UPGRADE
You can purchase the tune-up utility once and use it for as long as you like, paying again only if you upgrade to a more advanced version. IObit's products are almost always steeply discounted, but at first glance, the list price of this mini-suite and of the standalone tune-up tool appear the same-$49.99 for use on three PCs. The current version 11 adds ransomware protection, among other enhancements, but testing revealed a big hole in protection against ransomware, and the product failed some of our hands-on tests. The company's main focus is tuning performance, with antivirus capabilities added only in the top-of-the-line IObit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate. With IOBit, things are the other way around.

When antivirus utilities expand into full-scale security suites, we're accustomed to seeing them add performance tune-up tools, perhaps to offset any perceived slowdown caused by security functions.
