dotTech Exclusive: Free WinUtilities Professional Edition (with free updates)!
February 5, 2010 128
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Update: The developer of WinUtilities Professional Edition has canceled free updates. Please see http://dottech.org/announcements/17765 for more details. v9.81 is still available for free via this promotion, though.
Update: Apparently the download of WinUtilities Professional Edition now includes Ask.com toolbar. Be sure to uncheck the options to install the Ask.com junk during installation if you don’t want it!
Long, long time ago in a galaxy not-so-far away, dotTech was one of the first (besides GOTD of course) to give users the ability to grab WinUtilities for free. Now YL Computing and dotTech have decided to further our cooperation and allow dotTechies to get WinUtilities Professional Edition for free!
For those people that have been living under a rock for the past two years (=P) don’t know what WinUtilities is, let me give a quick recap. WinUtilities is a system care suite which has over 20+ features which users can make use of:
Feel free to read my full review on WinUtilities Professional Edition to learn more about WinUtilities in detail.
WinUtilities comes in two editions: Professional Edition and Free Edition. Free Edition is, of course, freeware so users can grab it whenever they want. Professional Edition, on the other hand, costs $49.95. Now dotTechies can get Professional Edition for free! To make deal even sweeter, dotTechies will all receive free updates for Professional Edition!
That being said, to get WinUtilities Professional Edition for free follow these simple directions:
Version being given out for free: v9.81
Free updates: Yes! No
Supported OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003 Server/2000/NT/98
- Download WinUtilities Professional Edition.
- Install WinUtilities – if you downloaded the installer version – or extract it if you downloaded the portable version.
- Run WinUtilities. You should be asked to register it. Register it with the following information:
regname: dotTech User
regcode: C1H0L9-B93A-90C9-1465-4935-W6Y1L3Note: This promotion is available to everyone – everyone may get it for free. However, this is a dotTech.org promotion. Please do not copy, paste, or reprint this registration information anywhere else including private or public forums, blogs, file hosting services, etc. If you want to spread information about this offer, you may link to this article by providing a permalink to your audience.
- After installation right-click on WinUtilities’ system tray icon, go to “Settings…” and uncheck “Automatically check for updates”.
- Enjoy!
If you have any trouble getting WinUtilities Professional Edition for free, post below and I will try to help.
So what exactly consists of the “Basic PC Care” that WinUtilities Free has? All of this:
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@Adrian,
Thanks for your suggestion and help. No matter how I tried (I even uninstall using Revo uninstaller, CCleaner scan, deleted all the old downloaded WinUtilities files and reboot the system) it still auto register Giveawayoftheday. I guess I’m forever “married” to Giveawayoftheday. Not sure how to divorce it. Thanks anyway.
#26 Ryan – have you asked for help from the GAOTD website?
Thanks!
Hi Annie,
This free WinUtilities software is a tied-up between dottech and YL Computing. Therefore, GAOTD has nothing to do with this issue. But, I’ll asking them for help. No harm trying. Thanks for your suggestion.
Thanks for this giveaway.
It installed and registerd fine after uninstalling the free edition – I followed advice in a previous post to uninstall the GAOTD version using the the prog’s uninstall utility, shut down, run CCleaner, reboot then install.
One issue during installation – I had a notepad window open, and when I came to the registration screen, it showed the text of the notepad window through the installer window, reducing readability. Closing the notepad window didn’t help.
Otherwise it’s the bee’s knees.
@Ryan:
Thanks all for your suggestions, but I can’t seem to get rid of the Giveawayoftheday registration. I followed all the above suggestions (3X’s)but no luck. But no big deal, I’ll just go with what I got.
Thanks again.
A quick question, I have jv16 powertools 2009 installed (also a dottech freebie). Does anyone know if it is worth it to install winutilities as well?
thanks, as always, you are the best, great information and evaluations always.
Thanks Ashraf! Helpful as always. I installed mine directly over the GotD and had no problems. Came up with the registration screen, entered given reg info and it’s running perfectly.
Well, guess that I am also in the minority, can’t get away from GOTD version of WinUtilites. I really did try, uninstalled 3 times, cleaned reg many times, restarted 3 times, and each time, just like a bad penny, it kept coming back. Oh well, guess I will have to accept it. Thanks for your efforts in supplying a great program Ashraf, only wish I could utilize it.
Thank you Ashraf.
I uninstall the Gotd version with the help of Revo Uninstaller (option 4 ) then I install the dotTech version without any problem.
thanks for all the goods software you have foud for us and particularly for this one wich is , in my opinion , the most efficient in this category.
alain
@Ryan and Bosco: Maybe you could try waiting for the next update? Since the GOTD version does not allow for free updates, the license will return to ‘trial’ after your next update. Then, you can enter your DotTech info.
@annie: This also happens when you run WinUtilities. So, you could navigate to the desktop before running WinUtilities to circumvent this graphic bug.
@Roland: You are welcome =).
@Ozzie: You are welcome =). I am not particularly sure if you need to uninstall the freeware version before installing Pro, and you probably can just install Pro over Free, but it is a good habit to uninstall anyway.
@Ozzie: Cool! You are welcome… again! =).
@Ryan: You are welcome =). I don’t know if the GOTD version allows free updates or not, but if installing the new version makes it automatically registered to GOTD, and the software works fine, then that is OK – stick with it because the differences between who the software is registered to is mainly just semantics.
@MikeR: I hope you feel good about yourself for making me Google what that means =P. At first I thought it meant “stupid” but then I thought its MikeR so he wouldn’t say that, and “estupido” is stupid (I think?).
@Adrian: Sometimes even RevoUninstaller is not able to “unregister” a software (primarily because it doesn’t delete the registration key in the registry for it). However, ya for those people that want to register WinUtilities Professional Edition with dotTech’s information (no one has to do this because it looks like Pro is working fine with GOTD info but I would appreciate the people who take the extra step to do so because the more people that register with dotTech’s information, the more successful this promotion is), do exactly as Adrian said: Use RevoUninstaller to uninstall WinUtilities first, then reinstall.
@Adrian: Well I can’t reveal the exact details of the deal (that is confidential information and professionalism dictates I keep it close to the chest) but lets just say as long as you see the WinUtilities banner at the top of dotTech, everyone will continue to get free updates.
@Sandeep: You are welcome =).
@Bosco: Ya as I explained to Adrian earlier, sometimes Revo just can’t “unregister” programs. In my opinion, don’t worry about it. Long as the program is working, it doesn’t really matter who it is registered to.
@Linu: You are welcome =). Glad to see dotTech is helpful to you.
@muhammad: You are welcome =).
@Abbasgirl: Honestly? I really don’t know. No program is perfect, but WinUtilities is known to be one of the more reliable ones. The best advice I have is report the problem to the developer directly and see if they can fix it.
@mohsen: Thanks =).
@jimorris77: Works fine for me. You can download it from other sources if Download.com is not working for you: http://www.ylcomputing.com/content/view/12/31/.
@Adrian: Good idea. Using CCleaner after using RevoUninstaller will probably do the trick.
@Mike: You are welcome =).
@gpc111: Thanks for the feedback; I am glad to see at least some people who are having problems are able to resolve then. Also, you are welcome =).
@normofthenorth: Cool! Glad to see it works. You are welcome =).
@Kernow: You are welcome =).
@MikeR: I agree – good advice.
@Jyo: You are welcome! =).
@MerryMarjie: You are welcome =). And yes it is not only OK but highly encouraged to share info about this promo!
@Jami: You are welcome =).
@Samuel: I agree =).
@Ryan: No problem at all. As I explained earlier, it really isn’t that big of a deal who the program is registered to as long as it works.
@annie: Good suggestion but I don’t think GOTD will be able to help out for this specific issue.
@Paul: You are welcome =).
@Ryan: I agree… there is no harm in trying.
@annie: You are welcome =). I am glad to hear it works fine for you.
@Bosco: Dang. Well, you win some and you lose some, right? However, as you said, it really isn’t that big of a deal so no need to stress over it, right? =)
@azrael789: They are both excellent software. However, since I have not explicitly compared the two, I really can’t say which one is “better”. I can say, though, is that jv16 PowerTools 2009 doesn’t have free updates while WinUtilities Pro does.
@TAB: You are welcome =).
@Cino: You are welcome =).
@Shueygal: Oh wells. No biggie. Enjoy WinUtilities Pro nonetheless… regardless of who it is registered to!
@Stockel1949: Cool! You are welcome =).
@alain: You are welcome =).
@Adrian: Good suggestion. Hopefully things will be set straight then.
@Adrian: Interesting. I never knew about this bug. Thanks for the info.
@Ashraf: Re: “@MikeR: I hope you feel good about yourself for making me Google what that means =P. At first I thought it meant “stupid” but then I thought its MikeR so he wouldn’t say that, and “estupido” is stupid (I think?).” I very nearly choked on my toast with laughter reading that! Hilarious! :)
Excellent Giveaway
Thanks Ashraf
@Ryan: Just so you know that you are not alone…
I’ve uninstalled WinUtilities with Revo, run CCleaner, jv16 PowerTools, ASC’s reg cleaner, aShampoo WinOptimizer, Glary, and Tuneup Utilities, and rebooted. And manually searched the registry for the prior registration name and key as well as all references to WinUtilties in the registry. Still it maintains my old product key.
I’m giving up. :-(
@karen: I just did an online search to see if I could come up with any solutions for the problems you guys are having, and came up with this. It is how to remove a Vista product key, but could the same method by used for this?
1. Click the Windows Start button and select “Run.” In the text box, enter “cmd” and press the “Enter” key. This starts the Windows MS DOS command prompt.
2. Type “slmgr” into the command prompt. This opens a new Windows screen that gives you a list of options for the tool. Notice one of these options is “upk,” and is listed as the method to uninstall a product key.
3. Type “slmgr -upk” to remove the Vista product key off of the machine. You are prompted for a confirmation. Click “Yes.”
4. Install a new product key by typing “slmgr -ipk .” For Windows Vista to work properly, you need to replace the uninstalled key with a new one.
Or this:
slmgr /dlv – this helps you find the activation ID for the current activation; run this with the old retail or OEM key installed
slmgr /upk – this removes the current product key by removing the activation ID
slmgr /cpky – this removes the product key from the registry
slmgr /ipk – this adds the new product key
slmgr /dlv – this will show you the new activation ID for the newly installed product key
slmgr /ato – this will activate the new product key
Would these be useful?
AOA Ashraf
Thanks a lot for such a great offer for free..
I’m obliged :)
BTW the portable version is 9.37
OK. I’m running Win XP SP2. Here’s what I did.
1. I uninstalled the GOTD version and “Perfect Utilities” (which is an older version of Win Utilities).
2. I set a System Restore Point Before you do this, or if this doesn’t work, perhaps almost all of this is unnecessary. Try
a. Setting a System Restore Point.
b. Uninstall previous versions of WinUtil and Perfect Utilities
c. Install the new version.
d. Check “About” to see what the version number is. If it is the new version, try registering it. If the registration page still says it is registered to GOTD, it probably is a registered version and not a trial version. So, you’re probably OK. When an update comes out, just install it. I expect that the update will either be registered to GOTD or you will be able to enter Ashraf’s registration info.
Finally, it is a good idea to save the registration info by using Notepad to create a .txt file with the registration info. Then create a folder called “WinUtil Pro Install” and put both the txt file you created and the install .exe file in it.
@Karen & Ryan:
When all else fails,,, use a hammer on it! :-) LOL!
@Ashraf: Another great freebie. Thank you sir, for the hard work you do for your visitors.
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@Ozzie: Ozzie, sure..if ya wanna remove the Vista product key. :) And how would u use this to remove the key for WinUtilities? :)Hope nobody removed their Vista product key. But smart that you found it, nonetheless. :)
I also seem to be stuck with the GOTD reg, but I’m gonna try to update it & see if that fixes it, just for fun. :)
THANKS, Ashraf! You’re terrific! :)
@Skye-hook: PS to Ashraf- Yeh, I know. It won’t matter if the name is different, but in case it decides to not let me use this for updates, I’m gonna keep the reg codes handy. I didn’t find a way to try to get updates, to be able to reg from you, because it’s all up to date. lol@ me! :)But this sure works great! It’s fast too! :) Thanks again!