Finally Fast Review
We have been asked by many users to do a review of the Finally Fast software over at FinallyFast.com which is brought to you by the folks over at Ascentive. We highly suggest you try PC Registry Cleaner instead of Finally Fast. Download PC Registry Cleaner. There are many bad reviews of finally fast online but we also found some positives in it. The software is easy to install and has a very clean looking interface. However many people report finally fast software as sending them a barrage of popups etc. We did not notice any popups that resulted from installing the software from finallyfast.com at the time we tested it other than normal nag screens commonly found in trial versions of software. It did install 4 icons on our desktop promoting their other products. Some novice users may not know how to remove these but they were not overly intrusive just a little out of the ordinary. When you goto the FinallyFast.com website you actually download a program called PC SpeedScan Pro. The other icons on your desktop will be for their other products to try and buy. Requirements: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, or XP This is according to their website faq as of 2/9/2009. It does seem strange that they don’t mention it working with Windows Vista as Vista has been out so for almost 2 years now. We tested the software with Windows XP. It ran ok without any errors on our XP test system. The screenshot below shows you that its the August 2008 version but we downloaded and tested this on February 09 of 2009.
The GUI straightforward and easy to use but took a very long time to scan our test pc and it said it found 32 issues. It’s not the fanciest interface around but it works.
Many people complain that they couldn’t uninstall the software but we were able to uninstall finally fast quite easily through the Add/Remove programs option in the control panel. The software does not offer a quick uninstall from the programs menu. They do have a very nice looking website and fancy commercial at finallyfast.com but the software does not seem to be as high quality as their marketing is. I would think they could make the GUI much better looking as well but again this is just my personal opinion.
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February 17th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
The folks @ finallyfast need to show me how to get a BSOD on a MAC. I MUST KNOW!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Caught that too, didja? That’s almost as good as the Antivirus2009 online scan that found 1,000+ virus instances for me in C:\WINDOWS…on a Linux box.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:20 pm
They fail to mention the “clean” install comes full of lovely trojans, and how they repeatedly charge your credit card should you choose to pay the ridiculous 30 dollars for this garbage. The commercial for this website should never have been aired on television, millions of computers are probably infected from this program. Its one thing to report false positives but it really makes me to lie to people and install malware.
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:48 am
My computer seemed to run SLOWER after I installed FinallyFast software. I finally had to tell it to quit running on startup so it wouldn’t take forever for my PC to boot.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
i can’t uninstall it. something wont let me open the control panel o_e
October 20th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I ran it on my clean install of vista with barely anything installed on it and found 243 errors. Claimed to find extension errors, but included in that was open.
After removal it slowed the computer down significantly.
I wouldn’t recommend using it as it seemed to have given me alot of false positives