The undisputed leader in PC diagnostics and support with over 100 Million PC performance tests and counting, PC Pitstop, has updated its Optimize service that keeps PCs running at top available speeds. Annoying ‘craplets’ and other data that can slow down your Internet connectivity and provides step by step instructions to keep things running smoothly are removed by the new version of Optimize. Optimization of Firefox, deeper registry cleaning, are other key new features included and the technology is now delivered through a new automatic update technology.

Founder and CEO of PC Pitstop, Rob Cheng, stated: “Most computers are simply not formatted to receive the greatest bandwidth available from Internet providers.” He added: "Optimize changes that. By keeping your system craplet-free and boosting performance, this is the one tool that can ensure you are zooming along the information superhighway -- super fast. "

A PC’s operating system is constantly writing to the hard drive. Every link you click on to every web page you visit, small bits of data are being written to the PC system registry, cookies, and temporary folders, silently while you work. Internet web browser operations are significantly slows down by this. Those hidden bits of data are eliminated and the system is streamlined for optimum performance using Optimize. Simply by making a few adjustments to the Windows Internet settings and based on connection type, Optimize improves your Internet connection up to 200%.

Optimize can be used in conjunction with PC Pitstop’s newly overhauled OverDrive scanning service which provides a detailed list of any and all performance bottlenecks using Internet Explorer (IE) or the IE tab in Firefox web browsers to provide a full report in just under five minutes. Evaluating system performance, application versioning, drivers, software, security, system conflicts and other key information and delivers a report for a full system tune-up, the OverDrive scan goes beyond just Internet optimization. PC Pitstop, with almost a decade of experience giving PC users a simple, self-sufficient and cost effective way to administer their own systems, is a one stop resource that uses the most current real-world information about PCs to help PC users keep their systems running optimally.

PC Pitstop was founded in 1999 and has performed over 100 Million scans all over the globe, from home PC users to Fortune 500 companies. To provide worldwide PC performance rankings, today the company uses their vast repository of knowledge. This new feature in OverDrive allows users from all over the globe to compare their performance with others.