Rawr! Anti tune up

Rawr!

So, this is a little off topic, but not fully. I love my gaming, and thus, I love my computer. I do not want anything to ever happen to it and I try to keep it happy and feeling good.

I actually clear my internet history, cookies, cache, so on. I actually clean my registry every 2 weeks.
I try to keep my files cleaned up, my deletes from cluttering and I only download from trusted stuff I have researched.... Usually.

I had, in the past, used AVG anti virus and been ok with it, so when I saw they had a computer doctor tune up program out, and were doing a free trial thing for the holidays, I shrugged, and downloaded it.

At first, it was ok, it fixed up a bunch of stuff, but at the bottom, it had skipped my drive, so I thought, oh, I must have to manually hit that. HUGE MISTAKE # 2.

My computer restarted and came up black, with a 'scan and repair' on it that locked at 10% and would not do anything. My poor baby (computer) was trapped, for hours. I switched the back, so I could soft turn off my computer, and forcing it off only brought up the 10% again. So I tried again, and it came up totally messed up, saying the computer could not start properly. Freaking, that I might have to deal with the bios now, that somehow this thing had destroyed my baby, I tried one last time.

This time it came up saying that I had a few seconds to hit any key and skip the scan. After a couple minutes of being frozen on second 6, for I had hit about 12 keys and clicked my mouse for good measure, it came up normally, but lagging, as if having a little trouble.

So, I did what I should have done in the first place, my FIRST MISTAKE, I researched, and found nothing but bad reviews from consumers for the tune up.

I promptly uninstalled it and when asked to do a survey, of course warned them  that their product had about tried to kill my poor baby. Anyhoo, don't use it, is the point, that and always research, even products from companies that didn't screw you over in the past, cuz they might just have made a bad egg this time.

Of course, some of the negative reviews said that if you didn't buy it after a day, it would undo all the good it had performed in the first place, or uninstalled it. So, after uninstalling, I ran my registry cleaner, and sure enough, all errors were back that the tune up had cleared.

So, for hours, my time was wasted, my fears for the safety of my baby spent, and in the end, I might as well have never downloaded the program, cuz even the orig ok things it did were not there to show for the trouble.

Also, you can't just uninstall it and it be completely gone, make sure you go into your drive, your programsx86 and go under AVG and remove it there after uninstalling from your remove programs/apps (depending on windows version).

Take care of your game systems, your putters, your laptops, your babies, by all means, but don't use the AVG tune up to try to do so, cuz it is not your friend.

Gaming is too important to not have my gaming baby (computer).

Rawr!