Benchmark Tests

These tests were performed in March 2015 Test 5: Windows 10 Benchmark Tests As a last test setup, Windows 10 Technical Preview edition was also used in Macecraft’s benchmark testing. Similar to the tests done with the other Windows versions, as detailed in the Overview of the Benchmark Test Procedures, 15 popular software programs were […]

These tests were performed in March 2015 Test 4: Windows 8.1 Benchmark Tests Following Software Uninstallment There is one more angle of the story that needs to be addressed: if you install software to Windows, it clearly makes the entire system slower.  However, does uninstalling all the software bring the system speed back up to

Test 3: Windows 8.1 Benchmark Tests Similar to the tests done with Windows 7 and detailed in the Overview of the Benchmark Test Procedures, 15 popular software were installed to a newly uploaded Windows 8.1 operating system and the results were measured. Test Results Installing the popular software to the system didn’t have as dramatic of

These tests were performed in March 2015 Test 1: Number of Errors Found This test was carried out to see how many errors different system or registry cleaning products report from a freshly-installed Windows 7. It can be speculated that some system cleaning or registry cleaning products may be what is commonly referred as “scareware“.

These tests were performed in March 2015 Cleaning Windows with Popular Software Installed On It During the first test, it was identified that out of the 133 tested products, only 34 products allowed users to fix the found registry or system errors. The remaining products required their paid version to be purchased before it would

These tests were performed in March 2015 Appendix 1: Technical Details of the Test Setups and Procedures All of the tests were run on a virtual computer based on the Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization environment version 4.3.18 (r96516). In all of the tests, the host computer running the virtual testing environment was a system running