Why Build this Website?
Reimage is an automated PC maintenance software service that can produce great results for most users so I built this website as I had not been able to find a Reimage review that matched that covered a prolonged period of product use.
Many of the reviews I had seen detail once off reviews against a specific piece of hardware (say, a laptop by a specific brand). I wrote my own review as I prefer to see reviews that critique a product over an extended time period and using a variety of systems.
I believe that often reviews made 1 or 2 years following a product release show how a product has benefited the user over time. Such a review garners more information about how incremental upgrades/improvements are factored into the product.
In addition, these form of reviews then benefit from the product being tested on several systems, covering multiple error fix attempts. On this note, Reimage has performed admirably over the period I’ve been using it and has worked equally well on my desktop PC & laptop used for work and a media center desktop PC.
For the individual user or home office user I tried searching for similar PC maintenance software and was unable to find one within my price range. Reimage had originally been recommended to me by a former work colleague who uses it fix computers in his small work office and his search for similar products had only highlighted costly enterprise systems/solutions intended for larger offices/enterprises. In his case, a one-stop PC fix solution worked out cheaper than individual products to clean registry files and fix the OS/applications.
The one similar tool I found that gained positive feedback was the popular Registry Easy, but this tool solely concentrates on repairing the Windows registry.
Why is the product called Reimage? Is a ‘reimage’ like a ‘ghost image’?
The word comes from the concept of restoring the image of your system (its files, registry keys, O/S system files, etc.) to a healthy state while maintaining the current state of all personal data. A reimage does not require that your system is formatted.
A ‘reimage’ should not be confused with making a ‘ghost image’ of your system. A ghost image is a snapshot backup of all your files at a single point in time. If your system fails then the ghost image can be used to fully replace all the files on your system, thus restoring the PC to the state it was in at time of ghosting (this includes the state of all personal/application data). Ghosting a PC is a last resort way of fixing computers by rolling back to a previous healthy configuration.
By contrast, a ‘reimage’ diagnoses and restores only those files that are faulty/missing/out of date while maintaining the current state of all your personal data. It does not however recover lost data that you may have deleted.
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