IOLO System Mechanic
Performance Testing (February 2019)
Performance Benchmark
Edition 2

Document: IOLO System Mechanic Performance Testing (February 2019)
Authors:
M. Kankanige, D. Wren
Company: PassMark Software
Date:
27 February 2019
File:
IOLO_System_Mechanic_Performance_Testing_Ed2.docx
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS......................................................................................................................................... 2
REVISION HISTORY............................................................................................................................................ 3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 4
OVERALL RESULTS ............................................................................................................................................. 5PERFORMANCE METRICS SUMMARY ................................................................................................................ 6
BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME ..................................................................................................................................... 6
BENCHMARK 2 – BROWSE TIME ................................................................................................................................. 6
BENCHMARK 3 – INTERNET SPEED .............................................................................................................................. 6
BENCHMARK 4 – BROWSER LOAD TIME ....................................................................................................................... 6
BENCHMARK 5 – FREE RAM AVAILABLE ...................................................................................................................... 6
BENCHMARK 6 – CPU USAGE DURING SYSTEM IDLE ...................................................................................................... 6
BENCHMARK 7 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ........................................................................................................... 7
BENCHMARK 8 – USB 3.0 FILE COPY .......................................................................................................................... 7
BENCHMARK 9 – PERFORMANCETEST BENCHMARK ....................................................................................................... 7
BENCHMARK 10 – BATTERY LIFE IMPROVEMENT ........................................................................................................... 7
BENCHMARK 11 – MEMORY USAGE DURING SYSTEM IDLE.............................................................................................. 7
BENCHMARK 12 – DISK SPACE RECOVERED .................................................................................................................. 7
TEST RESULTS ................................................................................................................................................... 8
BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME ..................................................................................................................................... 9
BENCHMARK 2 – BROWSE TIME ................................................................................................................................. 9
BENCHMARK 3 – INTERNET SPEED ............................................................................................................................ 10
BENCHMARK 4 – BROWSER LOAD TIME ..................................................................................................................... 10
BENCHMARK 5 – FREE RAM AVAILABLE .................................................................................................................... 11
BENCHMARK 6 – CPU USAGE DURING SYSTEM IDLE .................................................................................................... 11
BENCHMARK 7 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ......................................................................................................... 12
BENCHMARK 8 – USB 3.0 FILE COPY ........................................................................................................................ 12
BENCHMARK 9 – PERFORMANCETEST BENCHMARK ..................................................................................................... 13
BENCHMARK 10 – BATTERY LIFE IMPROVEMENT ......................................................................................................... 13
DISCLAIMER AND DISCLOSURE ....................................................................................................................... 14
CONTACT DETAILS .......................................................................................................................................... 14
APPENDIX 1 – TEST ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................ 15
APPENDIX 2 – METHODOLOGY DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................. 17

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Revision History
Rev

Revision History

Date

Edition 1

Initial version of this report.

21 February 2019

Edition 2

Minor changes for better understanding of test results.

27 February 2019

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Executive Summary
PassMark Software® conducted objective performance testing on IOLO’s System Mechanic, in Windows 10 (64bit) in February 2019. This report presents our findings as a result of performance benchmark testing conductedon this product.
The aim of this report is to measure the performance improvements obtained from using System Mechanic(Version 18.5.1.278) to optimize the machine in two different test environments (Laptop with an HDD boot drive
and a Desktop with an SSD boot drive). To replicate a typical end user system, both machines were pre-installedwith commonly used programs (41), some apps chosen by IOLO (12) and browser add-ons (6).
Testing was performed on both systems using twelve selected performance metrics.
Ten of these tests were conducted before and after repairing the machines with IOLO System Mechanic to obtaina comparison between results. These performance metrics are as follows.
• Boot Time;• Browse Time;• Internet Speed;• Browser Load Time;• Free RAM Available;• CPU Usage During Idle;• File Copy, Move and Delete;• File Copy USB 3.0 to Disk;• PerformanceTest Benchmark; and• Battery Life Improvement (Only tested in laptop environment).
The two other tests were conducted to obtain additional information regarding the System Mechanic
application. These performance metrics include:• Disk Space Recovered; and• Memory Usage During Idle.

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Overall Results
PassMark Software calculated percentage improvements for each test metric upon using the “Repair All” feature
on System Mechanic, followed by reviewing and performing other recommendations suggested by the application.
Following are the summarized performance improvements obtained from tests conducted on the two machines:

Test

Percentage Improvement
Desktop

LaptopBoot Time

12% Decrease

7% Decrease

Browse Time

13% Decrease

8% Decrease

Internet Speed

1% Increase

1% Increase

Browser Load Time

10% Decrease

4% Decrease

Free RAM Available

7% Increase

4% Increase

0.7% Decrease

0.8% Decrease(22% Decrease as a percentage(38% Decrease as a percentagechange in utilization percentage)change in utilization percentage)

File Copy, Move and Delete

6% Decrease

8% Decrease

File Copy USB 3.0 to Disk

1% Decrease

3% Decrease

PerformanceTest Benchmark

0.3% Increase

0.5% Increase

Battery Life (Discharge Rate)

N/A

7% Decrease

CPU Usage During System Idle

Test

ResultDesktop

LaptopMemory Usage During System Idle

4.1 MB

4.9 MB

Disk Space Recovered

75.32 MB

1464 MB

Note: The observed improvement in performance will be dependent on the hardware and the initial state of themachine. Smaller improvements in performance could be expected if the testing was conducted after a clean
installation of Windows whereas a larger improvement in performance could be expected if the machine wasinitially in a more degraded state.

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Performance Metrics Summary
The following test metrics have been selected to highlight certain areas in which the product (IOLO System
Mechanic) has an impact on the system performance for end users, particularly areas involving common tasks that
end-users perform on a daily basis.
All of PassMark Software’s test methods can be replicated by third parties using the same environment to obtain
similar benchmark results. Detailed descriptions of the methodologies used in our tests are available as “Appendix
2 – Methodology Description” of this report.

Benchmark 1 – Boot Time
This metric measures the amount of time taken for the machine to boot into the operating system. With all thevarious applications installed in an end-user’s machine, it is common that multiple programs are launched at
Windows startup, adding an additional amount of time and delaying the startup of the operating system. An
improvement in boot time essentially means that the system starts up faster.

Benchmark 2 – Browse Time
This metric measures the amount of time taken for a machine to browse through a set of webpages that havebeen linked together. The browser is cleared each time this test is conducted, prior to the next round of testing toprevent any advantages from caching. The final result for this metric is the average of five rounds.

Benchmark 3 – Internet Speed
This test evaluates the maximum internet speed achieved by the machine. For this, we have used third party speed
testing sites such as Google’s and OOKLA’s Internet Speed Tests. Both the upload and download speeds from boththese sites are obtained and included when calculating the average internet speed value. The final results is thetotal average over five rounds of tests.

Benchmark 4 – Browser Load Time
This metric is one of many methods to objectively measure how much the product improves the impacts the
responsiveness of the system. This metric measures the amount of time it takes to launch the user interface ofMicrosoft Edge. To allow for caching effects by the operating system, both the initial launch time and thesubsequent launch times were measured. Our final result is an average of these two measurements.

Benchmark 5 – Free RAM Available
This metric evaluates the change in free RAM once the product completes its repairing process on the machine
under observation. The amount of RAM used during system idle provides a good indication of the amount ofsystem resources being consumed by programs on a permanent basis.

Benchmark 6 – CPU Usage during System Idle
The amount of load on the CPU while in an idle state may affect the end user experience as high loads slow down
the system. This metric measured the percentage of CPU used when the system is idle. With all the programs
installed in the system, it is common that these applications perform tasks in the background even while thesystem is assumed to be idle, thus slowing down the machine.

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Benchmark 7 – File Copy, Move and Delete
This metric measures the amount of time taken to move, copy and delete a sample set of files. The sample file set
contains several types of file formats that a Windows user would encounter in daily use. These formats include
documents (e.g. Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF, Zip files, etc), media formats (e.g. images, movies andmusic) and system files (e.g. executables, libraries, etc).

Benchmark 8 – USB 3.0 File Copy
This test measures the amount of time taken to copy files from a USB 3.0 drive to a local disk. The data set
comprised a total file size of 6.06GB, and the formats used included documents, movies, system files andexecutables.

Benchmark 9 – PerformanceTest Benchmark
This test measures the machine’s overall performance as a finalized score over a range of areas, including CPU,
Memory, 3D / 2D video & HDD performance. The benchmarking is performed using PassMark’s PerformanceTest
application. The final result is the average of the score obtained over two rounds.

Benchmark 10 – Battery Life Improvement
This test is conduct on the laptop environment to evaluate the improvement in battery life caused by the product.
The battery percentage is logged as it diminishes from 100% to 0% (Or until the machine goes into sleep state).
The rate of battery loss (Discharge rate) is used for comparison to evaluate the improvement in battery life.

Benchmark 11 – Memory Usage During System Idle
This metric measures the amount of memory (RAM) used by the product while the machine is in an idle state. The
total memory usage was calculated by identifying all the processes belonging to the product and the amount ofmemory used by each process.
The amount of memory used while the machine is idle provides a good indication of the amount of system
resources being consumed by the product on a permanent basis. Better performing products occupy less memory
while the machine is idle.

Benchmark 12 – Disk Space Recovered
This metric measures the amount of capacity recovered once the product completes its repairing process on thesystem.

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Test Results
The table below shows the averaged final set of results for each performance metric in the desktop environment.1

Desktop

Test

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Percentage Change(Improvement)

Machine Boot Time (s)Browse Time (ms)Internet Speed (Mbps)
Browser Load Time (ms)Free RAM Available (GB)CPU Usage during Idle (%)
File Copy, Move and Delete (s)File Copy USB 3.0 to Disk (s)Performance Test Score
Battery Life (Discharge Rate) (%/hr)
Memory Usage During Idle (MB)16.32
17227.60
374.001298.72
5.25
2.97%
3.75
46.02
2372.07
N/A
N/A

14.29
14993.20
377.481172.45
5.61
2.30%
3.54
45.65
2378.93
N/A
4.1

12%
13%
1%
10%
7%
0.7%
6%
1%
0.3%
N/A
N/A

N/A

75.32

N/A

Disk Space Recovered (MB)The table below shows the averaged final set of results for each performance metric in the laptop environment.2

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Percentage Change(Improvement)

Machine Boot Time (s)Browse Time (ms)Internet Speed (Mbps)
Browser Load Time (ms)Free RAM Available (GB)CPU Usage during Idle (%)
File Copy, Move and Delete (s)File Copy USB 3.0 to Disk (s)Performance Test Score
Battery Life (Discharge Rate) (%/hr)
Memory Usage During Idle (MB)195.66
58662.00
370.013818.19
4.53
2.08%
11.52
111.812143.73
27.1
N/A

181.3953718.00
374.523679.88
4.72
1.29%
10.60
108.492154.00
25.2
4.9

7%
8%
1%
4%
4%
0.8%
8%
3%
0.5%
7%
N/A

N/A

1464.00

N/A

Disk Space Recovered (MB)1

LaptopTest

Percentage change (Improvement) for “CPU Usage during Idle” on the desktop can be interpreted as -22% as apercentage change in utilization percentage.
2

Percentage change (improvement) for “CPU Usage during Idle” on the laptop can be interpreted as -38% as apercentage change in utilization percentage.
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In the following charts, we have highlighted the results before (in blue) and after (in green) repairing bothmachines with System Mechanic.

Benchmark 1 – Boot TimeThe following charts compare the average time taken for the system to boot (from a sample of five boots) before
and after the product repairs each machine. Lower the boot time, better the performance.

LaptopDesktop200.00190.00Faster

185.00180.00

Seconds

Seconds

195.00175.00170.00
Before System
Mechanic

16.50
16.00
15.50
15.00
14.50
14.00
13.50
13.00

After System
Mechanic

Faster

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Benchmark 2 – Browse TimeThe following charts compare the average time taken to browse over a linked set of webpages before and after
the product repairs each machine. Lower the browse time, better the performance.

LaptopDesktop

58000

Faster

56000
54000
52000
50000
Before System
Mechanic

Performance Benchmark

After System
Mechanic

Milliseconds

Milliseconds

60000

17500
17000
16500
16000
15500
15000
14500
14000
13500

Faster

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

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Benchmark 3 – Internet Speed
The following charts compare the average maximum internet speed (Combination of upload and download
speeds) achieved by each machine before and after it is repaired. Higher the speed, better the performance.

LaptopDesktop

375
374
373
372
371
370
369
368
367

Faster
378
377

Mbps

Mbps

Faster

376
375
374
373
372

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Benchmark 4 – Browser Load TimeThe following charts compare the average launch times of the Microsoft Edge after rebooting each machine,
before and after the product performs its repairing process. Lower the browser load time, better the performance.

LaptopDesktop
1300

3800

Faster

3750
3700
3650
3600

Milliseconds

Milliseconds

3850

1250

Faster

1200
1150
1100

Before System
Mechanic

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After System
Mechanic

Before System
Mechanic

After System
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Benchmark 5 – Free RAM Available
The following charts compare the average amount of free RAM available in each machine when the system is in
an idle state. Higher the free RAM available, better the performance.

LaptopDesktop
Improved

GB

GB

Improved
4.75
4.70
4.65
4.60
4.55
4.50
4.45
4.40
Before System
Mechanic

5.70
5.60
5.50
5.40
5.30
5.20
5.10
5.00

After System
Mechanic

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Benchmark 6 – CPU Usage during System Idle
The following charts compare the average CPU Usage when each machine is in an idle state, before and after
repairing the system with System Mechanic. Lower the CPU usage, better the performance.

LaptopDesktop

2.5%

Improved

1.5%

%

%

2.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.0%
Before System
Mechanic

Performance Benchmark

After System
Mechanic

Improved

3.0%
2.5%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.0%
Before System
Mechanic

After System
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Benchmark 7 – File Copy, Move and Delete
The following charts compare the average time taken to copy, move and delete several sets of sample files onboth machines, before and after repairing the system with System Mechanic. Lower the time taken, better the
performance.

LaptopDesktop
3.8

11.5

Faster11.0
10.5

Seconds

Seconds

12.0

10.0

3.7

Faster

3.6
3.5
3.4

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Benchmark 8 – USB 3.0 File Copy
The following charts compare the average time taken to copy a set of files from an external USB 3.0 drive to a local
disk, before and after repairing each machine with System Mechanic. Lower the time taken, better the
performance.

112
111
110
109
108
107
106

Desktop

Faster

Before System
Mechanic

Performance Benchmark

After System
Mechanic

Seconds

Seconds

Laptop
46.1
46.0
45.9
45.8
45.7
45.6
45.5
45.4

Faster

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

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Benchmark 9 – PerformanceTest Benchmark
The following charts compare the benchmark score achieved from Passmark PerformanceTest, before and after
repairing each machine with System Mechanic. Lower the score, better the performance.

LaptopDesktop
Improved

Improved

2155

Score

Score

2150
2145
2140
2135
Before System
Mechanic

2380
2378
2376
2374
2372
2370
2368

After System
Mechanic

Before System
Mechanic

After System
Mechanic

Benchmark 10 – Battery Life Improvement
The following charts compare the battery discharge rate, before and after repairing the laptop with System
Mechanic. Lower the rate, better the performance.

Dischage Rate (%/hour)

Laptop
28
27
27
26
26
25
25
24

Improved

Before System
Mechanic

Performance Benchmark

After System
Mechanic

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Disclaimer and Disclosure
Disclaimer of Liability
While every effort has been made to ensure that the information presented in this report is accurate, PassMark
Software Pty Ltd assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or out-of-date information and shall not be liable
in any manner whatsoever for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from theavailability of, use of, access of, or inability to use this information.

Disclosure
IOLO funded the production of this report. The testing environments and metrics included in the report wereselected by IOLO.

Trademarks
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Contact Details
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Level 563 Foveaux St.
Surry Hills, 2010
Sydney, Australia
Phone + 61 (2) 9690 0444
Fax

+ 61 (2) 9690 0445

Web

www.passmark.com

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Appendix 1 – Test Environment
For our testing, PassMark Software used two test environments (Laptop and Desktop) running Windows 10 Pro(64-bit) with the following hardware specifications:

Test Machine 1: Laptop
Model:
CPU:
Video Card:RAM:
HDD (Boot Drive):
2nd Drive:
O/S:

HP Envy 15-1067nr Notebook PC
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
AMD Radeon Vega 8 Mobile Graphics
7892MB DDR4
HGST HTS721010A9E630 1000GB
Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB
Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Test Machine 2: Desktop
Model:
CPU:
Video Card:RAM:
SSD (Boot Drive):
2nd Drive:
O/S:

Lenovo H50W-50 i5Intel Core i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 705
8GB DDR3 RAM
Samsung 850 PRO 512GB
ST1000DM003 1000GB
Windows 10 Pro 64bit

State of Clean Image
In order to test the performance benefits of System Mechanic, we installed a set of programs and browser addons on top of the clean Windows 10 Home image of both test machines. Common programs were chosen to
replicate a typical end user system.
Listed below are 41 commonly used programs, 12 additional application chosen by IOLO and 6 browser add-ons
used for testing. It is noteworthy that these applications were installed with their default options:
List of Common Applications:
1. CyberGhost VPN
2. Adobe Acrobat Reader
3. AVG AV (Free)
4. Evernote
5. Aomei Backupper
6. Audials
7. AntiBrowserSpy
8. WonderShare
9. Bluestacks
10. Video Converter Ultimate
11. Lightshot
12. Maxthon Browser
13. McAfee TruKey
14. OverWolf
15. Pluto TV
16. SoundTouch
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17. VisualStudio Plus
18. Unchecky
19. Camtasia
20. Synology
21. FreeDownloadManager
22. Glasswire
23. Kodi
24. Steam
25. iTunes
26. Advanced Uninstaller
27. Quicktime
28. Microsoft Office
29. Adobe Flash Player
30. Google Chrome
31. Google Earth
32. Java Runtime
33. VLC Player
34. Skype
35. Dropbox
36. WinRar
37. Notepad++
38. Whatsapp for PC
39. Macrium Reflect
40. uTorrent
41. Daemon Tools Lite

List of Applications chosen by IOLO
1. ICQ
2. Virtual DJ
3. Quickbooks Pro
4. DU Meter
5. Discord:
6. Epson Printer software
7. CyberLink Screen Recorder
8. Startup Faster!
9. SlickRun
10. DigiGuide
11. Power2Go DVD Burning
12. CyberLink Webcam

Browser Add-Ons:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Save to Pocket
Evernote Web Clipper
Translator for Microsoft Edge
Nimble Contacts
Open in Private
Read & Write for Microsoft Edge

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Appendix 2 – Methodology Description
Benchmark 1 – Boot Time
PassMark Software uses tools available from the Windows Performance Toolkit (as part of the Microsoft Windows
10 ADK obtainable from the Microsoft Website).
The Boot Performance (Fast Startup) test is run as an individual assessment via the Windows Assessment Console.
The network connection is disabled and the login password is removed to avoid interruption to the test. The result
is taken as the total boot duration excluding BIOS load time.
For instances where the system never really reaches an idle state (due to background applications running
continuously), timing is done manually using a stopwatch.

Benchmark 2 – Browse Time
This test uses javascript to load a list of 103 ‘popular’ websites consecutively from a local server. On each page inthe sample data, a few lines of javascript are added to the website’s html to execute the javascript script that loads
the next website in the chain. To begin with, once the first website has been loaded completely, the script is
executed to load the second website in the chain. Once this has finished loading, the script is executed to thenload the third website in the chain. This process is repeated until the final website in the chain has loaded. The
start time and end time of this process are recorded and the difference is calculated in seconds to get the final
result. For this test, we will use the current version of Chrome. The set of websites used in this test include front
pages of high traffic pages. This includes shopping, social, news, finance and reference websites. The Browse Timetest is executed five times and our final result is an average of these five samples.

Benchmark 3 – Internet Speed
Internet speed benchmarking will be conducted using the 2 sites listed below:
1) OOKLA’s SpeedTest.net – (http://www.speedtest.net)
2) Google Speed Test (MeasurementLab)
Each of these tests will be run five times before and after running System Mechanic. An overall average fordownload and upload speeds will be calculated to be included in the compiled set of results.

Benchmark 4 – Browser Load TimeThe average launch time of Microsoft Edge interface was taken using AppTimer. This test was practically identicalto the User Interface launch time test. For each product tested, we obtained a total of fifteen samples from fivesets of three Edge launches, with a reboot before each set to clear caching effects by the operating system. Whencompiling the results, the first of each set was separated out so that there was a set of values for the initial launch
after reboot and a set for subsequent launches.
For this test, we have used Microsoft Edge (Version 42.17134.1.0) as our test browser.
We have averaged the subsequent launch times to obtain an average subsequent launch time. Our final result forthis test is an average of the subsequent launch average and the initial launch time.
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Benchmark 5 – Free RAM Available
FreeRAM is a command-line tool which samples the amount of free RAM available every second. From this,
FreeRAM calculates and displays the average free RAM available for the interval of time for which it has been
active.
For this metric, FreeRAM was used to measure the free RAM available on average by the system while it is in an
idle state (Machine is left alone for 5 minutes before running the tool). The result is calculated as an average fivesets of 300 RAM usage samples.

Benchmark 6 – CPU Usage during Idle
CPUAvg is a command-line tool which samples the amount of CPU load approximately two times per second. From
this, CPUAvg calculates and displays the average CPU load for the interval of time for which it has been active.
For this metric, CPUAvg was used to measure the CPU load on average (as a percentage) by the system while an
On-Demand Scan is run on a sample data set. The result is calculated as an average five sets of thirty CPU usage
samples.

Benchmark 7 – File Copy, Move and Delete
This test measures the amount of time required for the system to copy, move and delete samples of files in various
file formats. This sample was made up of 812 files over 760,867,636 bytes and can be categorized as documents[26% of total], media files [54% of total] and PE files (i.e. System Files) [20% of total].
The breakdown of the main file types, file numbers and total sizes of the files in the sample set is shown in thefollowing table:

Performance Benchmark

File format

NumberSize (bytes)

DOC

830,450,176

DOCX

4

13,522,409

PPT

3

5,769,216

PPTX

3

4,146,421

XLS

4

2,660,352

XLSX

4

1,426,054

PDF

73

136,298,049

ZIP

4

6,295,987

7Z

1

92,238JPG

351

31,375,259

GIF

6148,182MOV

7

57,360,371

RM

1

5,658,646

AVI

8

78,703,408

WMV

5

46,126,167

MP3

28

191,580,387

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EXE

19

2,952,914

DLL

104

29,261,568

AX

118,432CPL

22,109,440

CPX

2

4,384

DRV

10

154,864

ICO

1

107,620MSC

141,587

NT

1

1,688

ROM

2

36,611SCR

22,250,240

SYS

1

37,528,093

TLB

3

135,580

TSK

1

1,152

UCE

1

22,984EXE

192,952,914

DLL

104

29,261,568

AX

118,432CPL

22,109,440

CPX

2

4,384

DRV

10

154,864

ICO

1

107,620MSC

141,587

NT

1

1,688

ROM

2

36,611SCR

22,250,240

SYS

1

37,528,093

TLB

3

135,580

TSK

1

1,152

UCE

1

22,984

Total

812

760,867,636

This test was conducted five times to obtain the average time to copy, move and delete the sample files, with thetest machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

Benchmark 8 – USB 3.0 File Copy
This test measures the amount of time taken to transfer files from an external drive to a local disk via a USB 3.0
connection. The data set comprised of 6,834 files with a total file size of 6.06GB, and the formats used included
documents, movies, images, executables and system files. A breakdown of the sample file set is given below:
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File Size

File

NumberExtensionof Files

.dll

1429

627MB

.doc

496

164MB

.docx

324

76MB

.exe

280

1.2GB

.jpg

1564

469MB

.mp3

394

1.06GB

.pdf

567

246MB

.pptx

556

1.06GB.pst

2

59.1MB

.sys

568

145MB

.xlsx

584

81.0MB

.zip

70

911MB

A total of five runs of this test were performed, with a machine restart between each run. The time taken totransfer files was measured and recorded by CommandTimer.exe. Files were deleted from the local disk once thecopy was complete. The final result is calculated as an average of the five samples.

Benchmark 9 – PerformanceTest Benchmark
A well-known synthetic benchmark will be performed using PassMark’s PerformanceTest. This test measures theoverall performance as an overall score over a range of areas, including CPU, Memory, 3D / 2D video & HDD
performance.

Benchmark 10 – Battery Life Improvement
This test will only be performed on the laptop (Test machine 1). Preliminary steps will be taken to adjust the default
power plan in order to disable sleep/hibernation of the machine. A script will be utilized to place a moderateamount of load on the machine. For example: the machine remains idle for 1 hour and then runs an application
called BurnInTest. This process is repeated in a loop while BatteryMon logs reduction in battery life leading to a
0% battery level.

Benchmark 11 – Memory Usage During System Idle
The MemLog++ utility was used to record process memory usage on the system at boot, and then every minutefor another fifteen minutes after. This was done only once per product and resulted in a total of 15 samples. The
first sample taken at boot is discarded.
The MemLog++ utility records memory usage of all processes. As a result of this, the product’s processes need to
be isolated from all other running system processes. To isolate a relevant process, we used a program called
Process Explorer which was run immediately upon the completion of memory usage logging by MemLog++.
Process Explorer is a Microsoft Windows Sysinternals software tool which shows a list of all DLL processes currently
loaded on the system.

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Benchmark 12 – Disk Space Recovered
Using PassMark’s OSForensics we created an initial and final disk signature allowing System Mechanic to run its“Repair All” feature in-between these signature captures. These disk signatures recorded the amount of files anddirectories, and complete details of all files on that drive (including file name, file size, checksum, etc) at the time
the signature was taken.
The initial disk signature was taken immediately prior to running the “Repair All” feature. A subsequent disk
signature was taken immediately following the repair process. Using OSForensics, we compared the two
signatures and calculated the total disk space consumed by files that were new, modified, and deleted during thisprocess. Our result for this metric reflects the overall difference in disk size (space recovered) after the executionof System Mechanic.

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