Reimage Review – PC Maintenance Software For The Home Office Worker

Filed under: Computers

Reimage PC maintenance software has been helping Windows XP users repair and maintain their computers in working order for a number of years. This Reimage review covers three years using the product to fix blue screen errors and speed up computers.

Reimage is an online PC maintenance service that can repair a Windows XP machine without the need for human intervention. The application runs from within Internet explorer by (a) scanning your PC for faults (b) reporting the issues it has identified and (c) repairing the faults using an inventory of 25 million OS/applications files.

From my experience it is capable of repairing blue screen fatal errors, corrupted registry issues and device driver problems. I had originally got Reimage after experiencing a blue screen error on a laptop during start-up (the exception code was 0×80072EFD). At the time the main reason for using Reimage was because of the boot application they were able to provide could bypass the blue screen.

I have since used the software for speeding up two desktop PCs and the process is the same. Reimage runs within Internet Explorer as an ActiveX control and initially scans the registry and file system for faults. The registry is checked for orphaned keys, incorrectly set keys and missing keys with Reimage pinging their knowledge base of healthy registry configuration settings for the right/optimum key settings.

Application and operating system files are also checked in the scan to see if there are newer versions of the files. The resulting report details all the issues found in great detail.

In the instance of my blue screen error the issue was due to the registry being corrupted (most likely due to the application removals I had completed the day of the error). With my other two machines there was a lot of device drivers which were out of date and the upgrades Reimage performed to the modem drivers & registry settings resulted in noticeably faster internet access.

The final stage for Reimage is to repair the issues by setting registry keys correctly and upgrading missing/old files. All in all the scan and repair process takes under 40 minutes to complete.

For home office workers, such as myself, we don’t have the luxury of a technical support team to repair and maintain our computers. When issues do arise it is good to have PC maintenance software on hand to automate the repairs promptly and effectively.