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THQ's Divisional Executive Vice President Jack Sorenson dove into the debate over the death of PC gaming with the claim that "disc-based software is on a permanent decline." Sorenson believes the ...

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Disk Repair also attempts to make it so you cannot run any programs on your computer. If you attempt to launch a program it will terminate it and state that the program or hard drive is corrupted.

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Disk Optimizer will then prompt you to scan your computer, which will then find a variety of errors that it states it cannot fix until you purchase the program. When you use the so-called defragment ...