purchase) to perform the advertised functionalities, however following activation - they remain nonoperational (i.e.

Some PUAs, for example fake anti-virus / system cleaning and optimizing tools, require activation (i.e. Questionable promotion and distribution methods are not uncommon for legitimate products, however they are more often used to promote unreliable and possibly harmful software. Software of this kind is often nonoperational and may even have unmentioned, heinous abilities. Note that PC Accelerate may also install under the following names: Onrym Speedup, YixSpeedUp, AesteriusAPCP, HogoSpeedup and Chrono SpeedUp.

It is deemed to be a PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application), due to the dubious techniques used to distribute it. It is supposedly capable of creating backup files, updating old registry files, eliminating errors, and so on. PC Accelerate is a piece of software, endorsed as a tool for optimizing operating systems.