I don't know whether a virus with no recommendations would also be rated "good" enough to keep. Yet it's rated "good" so I should keep it. No one out there in the cloud crowd has an opinion on the Dolby Audio component. It's another waste of your computer resources." Hmm.
Should you remove a component? Ask the crowd about Adobe ARM and you get the odd advice to "keep Adobe ARM in startup if you don't know how to check for updates on your own. What, exactly, does "Hijack Log" mean, for instance? Apparently, this option searches for Windows components that are loaded at startup and lists them. Slimcleaner's options are a confusing mess of undocumented icons and buttons. The usual response from the company is the equivalent of "thanks for telling us, we're working on it." I guess that's all you can expect of a program that's been in existence for less than a year. If you search for "Slimcleaner problem" you'll get plenty of problem reports submitted on Slimware Utitilities' support forum. For example, Slimcleaner tells me that I should keep Windows Live Essentials because, "it is a suite of productivity applications that simplifies everyday tasks." Never mind that I have never found any use for Windows Live Essentials! It makes no difference whether the user doing the rating knows what he's talking about. Users' recommendations about specific programs found on their computers are uploaded to a database that is used to rate the programs as unnecessary, optional, or "good," meaning you should keep it.
I guess the reviewers' excitement is ignited by Slimcleaner's use of "the cloud" and "crowd-sourcing." You see, everyone who uses Slimcleaner has the option to tell you what should or should not be on your computer. Some users are reporting that after using SlimCleaner, they have problems with Firefox, Google Chrome and Thunderbird. And users are complaining that flaws in the software are not being addressed. I have no idea what it does to my system, but it definitely hasn't speeded things up in the least. If nothing else, Slimcleaner is confusing.
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