Windows 10: What's the catch with GameGain ?

Recently I was about to donate an ancient laptop I had to my 4 year old nephew who showed interest in laptops but rather for playing videos and browsing youtube , so I managed to upgrade it to windows 10 which went up fine despite not even being supported but i did notice it to be quite iffy performance wise . So out of blunt trials before I rest the case I tried an app called GameGain .

I was thinking it would probably end up another fake ware or pc clean up tool or would design a mode that would shut down everything running and dedicate everything to the specific app i choose , to my surprise it did nothing of that it just did some gizmos based on cpu selection and next thing the laptop can do X 2 fps of what it used to do and running smooth as is without even producing any extra heat ...

Now I googled for catches behind this or for what exactly are they applying , I mean if hardware can deliver X 2 performance with only few registry tweaks then why arent manufacturers doing it on their own , however I found little awareness of its existence .

The reason why I opened this thread is that I am highly considering installing this on my other valued laptops but i am wondering if there is a catch really with this thing . I mean i dont wanna lose my work or gaming laptops , so any thoughts ?

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Windows 10 - What is the Catch?

Of course there's a catch. It's bait for Microsoft making profits down the road. If you as me, $119 for a copy of an OS is not that bad a deal; even if it costs $200, I'd rather not get into something with someone who isn't telling me the whole story.
I'll just wait...heck, I'd still have XP if it weren't for it having security holes all through it.

 

Windows 10 - What is the Catch?

Ive tried to ask this question several times ... Like will I be asked to pay for continuing use of Windows10 after one year. Each time I post my question my browser crashes

 

I imagine, that the full version installs the latest drivers, optimizes CPU as they say and applies some network tweaks.

You can mitigate it yourself, using these freeware:

Bitsum. Real-time CPU Optimization and Automation

Driver Easy Free Trusted Driver Updater

SpeedGuide.net :: TCP Optimizer

This is, what the "free" version does. Common tweaks.