The fake deep scan
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The pattern
The optimizer runs a dramatic 45-second "deep scan" with a throbbing progress bar and scrolling file names. The work it's pretending to do takes under a second — the delay is theater to make the result feel earned.
The tell
The scan always takes about the same showy length no matter how fast your PC is, and nothing it "found" maps to a change you can verify.
The honest version
What the honest version of this looks like ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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