Suite can keep teleworkers' PCs in tune and up to date  The
System Mechanic software suite from iolo technologies has had a
long history that harkens back to the DOS days when system
utilities were incredibly powerful tools best used only by
experts. Although somewhat scaled down in power, today’s
commercial system tools are still important, especially for
government employees who do partial or full telecommuting and
who may be required to maintain their own gear away from agency
administrators.  The new System Mechanic Version 12 does a great
job of striking a balance between power and usability. For the
complete novice, there are one-touch settings that can fix most
problems. For those who don't ever trust automatic settings, the
new version lets users "crawl under the hood" to analyze and
approve every single change the software wants to make.  For our
testing, we used a fairly typical PC from the GCN Lab with a
quad core Intel Xeon processor running Windows 7, and ran
benchmarks before and after using Sys