dotTech Exclusive: Free WinUtilities Professional Edition (with free updates)!
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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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thanks for WinUtilities. something messed up last week & I could rung the version I had.
I installed the version above but have not been asked to register. not sure why.
Thanks, Willy
Thank you for a wonderful program. I did not know the win utilities had a duplicate file finder on it. It will be most useful. I have a link on my website, and should generate quite a bit of interest. thanks Again.
Cindy
Thanks for this Ashraf. It was a nice surprise to find it. Very useful.
The installation went smoothly but although it is the current version, 9.41, I did not have to register using your info : turned out it registered itself with an ID number to Giveawayoftheday.
I can only surmise that I had installed a previous GOTD version which, despite me not uninstalling it, made a graceful exit when the newer younger model presented itself.
Is there any drawback to it being registered to GOTD?
Anyhow, many thanks, and also in general for all your good and helpful work here.
Hi Ashraf, thanks for this! Keep it up. Love your reviews at GAOTD and here.
http://forum.pcastuces.com/winutilities_pro_gratuit-f1s174424.htm
http://www.livingonlines.com/2010/02/giveaway-winutilities-pro-941.html
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=c1h0l9-b93a-90c9-1465-4935-w6y1l3
@Locutus: What happened to
“Note: 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.”
Ashraf and Ramesh:
Well, I figured out what happened to the missing full menu (ALL modules) we used to get by r-clicking the sys tray icon and how to get it back: it’s now a l-click….:-)….!
thanks asraf for the program I ussed to have this program but I lost my key
Ashraf,
Love your first comments on GAOTD. Today’s comments, along w/others, saved me grief (Adv Reg Dr Pro). Upside, I got linked to your dotTechSite and as a side benefit, I was presented with an install of Win Utilities Prof Edition V9.52! Oh, not fully used yet, but Downloaded, Installed, and Registered all OK w/out the ask.com Toolbar.
As always, a joy when things work as they are supposed to!
Cheers -Phil
Installed the portable version. Registered fine. Worked at home. But upon trying to run it on my work machine, I run into the error Allan (see comment 55) described: “Failed to initialize DLL object. Please reinstall.”
Ashraf, any idea what I could have done wrong?
Man, on a hunch I ran init.bat again, and the tool loads, but I had to re-register. Now when I go home, I’m sure I’ll have to run init.bat and re-register again.
Hmmm … This is not really portable. :-)
Cochin Blogger
Lina
Hi Ashraf,
I am new to your site, but I really was interested in your offer of Win Utilities. I went to the download site, but it seems I am unable to download any binary file from any site. I am using Mozilla, having got rid of IE in every way permanently. I am using No Script, but I am allowing all scripts in a site I trust, I allowed Download.com, but to no avail, I get the file panel – save file or cancel- I click on save file but the download in my download folder has an icon, 0 bytes and it says this is is not a valid windows 32 file.
The “hoiw to fix it” I have no idea, perhaps it was a Microsoft update? or some change in the system. Absolutely not malware, I have malwarebytes pro., Super Antispyware, and Avast all scan and find not one piece of malware from a boot scan to a full scan.
Looks like I will not be able to download anything that is not zipped.
Thanks anyway for the offer,
Lina
@Lina:
Sorry I do not understand the reply- delete.
counting numbers? Why?
I wanted to tell Ashraf not me.
I’m new to your site, downloaded WinUtilities, put in the key which it accepted and then put me back to the trial, so I re-enter the key and still accepted but on trial basis. Another quirk I found, I unchecked the recycle bin yet when I ran the program, it empty the recycle bin and now I need to learn how to get the contents. The duplicate program works fine yet the file extensions were too long to show the filename, so I decided against removing them, since I am not sure if its necessary to keep duplicates in tact, since the file extensions differ from the ones I could see. over 2500 files were found, I don’t want to disrupt anything, just not sure how important they are for maintaining this computer.
thanks , great stuff so many good updated thanks for ur wonderful work
WARNING, DOT TECH LICENSE KEY WILL NOT WORK WITH V 9.7!!!
~Joji~
I agree with JoJi…
Dot Tech license will not work with version 9.7
Don’t work since 9.7
just upgraded to 9.7. won’t work anymore :(
Please use this one:
regname: dotTech User
regcode: C1H0L9-964E-DDC7-35CB-422D-W6Y1L3
Thank you very much chatokay, best regards
@Chakotay: thanks. The new registration key worked =]
@Paul Uchenna: You probably downloaded WinUtilities 9.7 version. To activate it try using these codes:
License Name: Softpedia User
License Code: C1H0L9-611A-FC03-6F73-47F1-W6Y1L3
When I saw today’s GOTD decided to update the DoTech version I have. Clicked on the Upgrade link and landed at YL Software. Clicked the Download link & landed at Cnet & downloaded uprgrade 9.7. Although it said it accepted the old DotTech registraion information when I restarted it still said only 31 days left. So uninstalled 9.7 and used the ‘Check for Updates’ link, landed at YL S’ware, used its mirror link to download 9.7 & got same result. Will not accept DotTech User as License name. Used Softpedia User as advised above & it works. It was a bit of a nuisance, so what’s happened to the ‘cooperation’. Perhaps it was just an oversight by YL Software. Regardless, I gratefully thank YL Software, DotTech & Softpedia.
And many thanks Robert Fare : )
dotTech user please use this one:
regname: dotTech User
regcode: C1H0L9-964E-DDC7-35CB-422D-W6Y1L3
*I am no developer though
Thanks Chak now it works