System Tweaking

TuneUp Utilities optimizes the performance of your computer, corrects problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs. It combines important aspects of system configuration, security, cleaning and maintenance under a modern interface. You can remove unnecessary files from your hard disk(s), clean and optimize the registry, tweak your internet connection settings, recover deleted files, optimize memory and more. In addition, you can analyze your system, receive automatic suggestions for potential performance improvements and view detailed hardware information. TuneUp Utilities also includes an Uninstaller, Registry Editor, Task Manager and even an Undelete tool to recover files that have been deleted from the recycle bin. A very nice tool, with many features that will appeal to novice as well as advanced users.

PCMedik is a tool for all that allows you to optimize your computer settings to increase performance and prevent crashes. All adjustments and settings are done automatically, from an easy to use interface and can be restored to the original if they do not meet your expectations. The modifications and tweaks performed by PCMedik include file cache settings, swap file settings, animation settings, legacy Windows support, file allocation size and buffers, boot optimization and more. The program first analyzes your computer configuration and then applies the new settings as appropriate. While the program is extremely simple to use, there is no insight into exactly what settings are changed and how, nor is there an option to exclude certain tweaks or customize it in any way. Since all changes can be safely undone, you can give it a try and see how it works for you - if you`re satisfied, you can register it for a minimal fee.

GameGain allows you to modify your computers settings to increase gaming performance and to avoid slowdowns and glitches. All adjustments and settings are done from an easy to use interface that only requires you to click a button. Your original settings can also be restored in the same manner. The program changes the maximum and minimum cache sizes, animation settings, file allocation buffers, application priority levels and several other options. All these settings could be changed manually from various Windows dialogs, however GameGain lets you access, optimize and restore them with a single click.

WinXP Manager is a tool for setting, optimizing, diagnosing and tweaking Windows XP. It includes more than 28 different tools that will let you teak and optimize your system. You can tweak memory and CPU settings, customize IE settings, find and remove junk files, check and repair your registry, control startup programs, optimize your connection speed, validate your Favorites and much more. It also includes an Auto-Optimization option, that allows less experienced users to easily optimize certain settings, using a wizard. The interface is easy to use and all available options are categorized into sections. Includes basic documentation.

AusLogics BoostSpeed is a computer tools collection to optimize and clean your computer, fix registry errors, boost Internet performance and more. It provides a categorized collection of tools and utilities, including a disk cleaner, registry scanner, startup manager, uninstaller and more. The program also includes a complete set of networking utilities, including WHOIS, Ping, connection monitor, traceroute and others. Other features include application boosting of popular browses, email programs and instant messengers, as well as Microsoft Office, Media Player and others. AusLogics BoostSpeed offers backup and Undo, allowing you to rollback any changes made to your system.

Vista Manager is a suite of more than 25 tools and utilities to tweak, optimize, maintain and tune up Windows Vista. You can retrieve detailed hardware information, tweak startup and shutdown speeds, find and remove junk files, view hard drive pie charts, find duplicate files and more. The program includes a system optimization wizard to maximize your PC`s performance, as well as startup and service manager. Other features allow you to customize the context menu, change your wallpaper automatically, tweak system icons and more. Vista Manager also comes with a Registry Cleaner, Internet Explorer Manager, Security Restriction Manager and other useful tools that allow you to manage and maintain your system.

Tweak-XP Pro bundles 56 different utilities into one. It was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows XP system. All settings can be done without the need for any technical knowledge, since Tweak-XP informs the user in detail about each option. Features include Desktop tweaking, Internet Explorer tweaking, connection speed optimization, virtual desktops, Outlook tweaks, hardware tweaks, cache optimization and much more. Tweak-XP Pro also allows you to create a RAM drive and virtual drives. Additional utilities include a secure file shredder, password generator, zip file repair tool, folder protection, registry cleaner and others. A feature rich tool with a modern interface and tons of features.

WinTasks Professional is an advanced replacement for the Windows Task Manager, that provides the advanced computer user with complete control over all running processes. Advanced resource management, problem solving and optimizations become much easier with the help of the included tools. It allows you to monitor CPU and memory usage graphs per process, view detailed processes information (with descriptions), stop and start new processes, manage start-up programs, create presets and much more. It also comes with a built-in scripting language that allows you to automated tasks, and manage processes, set priorities etc. based on custom conditions (IF statements). You can use WinTasks to easily find and remove unnecessary background processes as well as assigning more resources to demanding processes like games, realtime multimedia applications and cd writing softwares. A powerful tool that provides advanced users with great flexibility and control over their system.

Tweaking Toolbox XP enables you to change hundreds of registry settings for Windows XP, improving appearance, performance and functionality. You can prevent others from changing your settings, increase Windows security. Lock down Control Panel applets, Internet Explorer options, even choose which applications can or cannot be run on the computer. In addition, you can also optimize the CPU and memory usage, System cache and more. All tweaks are categorized and have additional information posted with each. If you are logged into a Windows XP administrator account, the program allows you to adjust settings for all users on the local machine without logging into each user account separately. Additional features include removal of "uninstallable" components, Internet time correction tweaking, hiding of drives, password protection and more.

Advanced System Optimizer is a system tweaking suite that includes more than 30 tools to improve and tweak your PC`s performance. It offers an attractive and easy to use interface that organizes all tasks into categories and provides graphical statistics whenever possible. The tools include junk file cleaner, memory optimizer, system information, system files backup, file encryption, safe uninstaller, duplicate file finder, windows transparency manager and much more. Advanced System Optimizer also includes a small SMTP server for direct mail sending, an Internet tracks eraser with cookie manager and secure deletion, and even a desktop sticky notes application. Overall, a great bundle that offers a wide range of system tools, as well as some extras that are not commonly found.

MagicTweak is a Tweaking Tool designed to optimize and personalize Windows looks , feel and performance. MagicTweak makes it easy to change the hundreds hidding settings in Windows so there is no longer any need to go digging in the registry manually. It includes tweaks from Start Menu,Desktop,System Icon to System Security.

XP Smoker is a system tweaking and control utility that will help to reduce system bottlenecks, increase boot times and system stability. In addition, it offers quick access to various settings and tweaks that allow you to restrict options in Internet Explorer and the Windows Control Panel. You can also delete IE browser cache, cookies, history and index.dat files. XP Smoker also comes with an option to disable some XP services, a built-in internet speed optimizer, drive analyzer/cleaner and more.

WINner Tweak is a tools suite for tweaking, optimizing and tuning of Windows 2000/XP. It helps you increase performance and manage your system using various tweaks and utilities for settings including Windows, Hardware, Security, Network and Software. In addition to the tweaks, the program also offers several additional tools (Power Utilities) that include a Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Shortcut Cleaner, Uninstall manager, File Shredder, Start-up Manager, Popup Blocker, Password Generator, and a Folder Protector to prevent access to selected folders. Overall, a very complete system tool with tons of features at a great price!

FolderIcon XP allows you to easily change the icon for any folder with just a few clicks. It integrates into the Explorer right-click menu and offers more than 120 custom XP-style icons (colored, numbered, marked folders) as well as a set of of more than 260 selected system icons. You can also add your own icons and use them in addition to the included library. FolderIcon XP keeps a detailed log of all changes and you can restore any folders, or all of them to the default settings at any time. Additional features include support for network paths, batch apply to subfolders and more.

Game Optimizer Pro allows you to optimize your computer for gaming purposes by allocating system resources and prioritizing game processes. It offers a Dynamic Optimization mode, and a Static Optimization mode, as well as a MagicSpeed feature that allows you to configure your speed index to either speed up or slow down your game. In addition, the program includes Keyboard remapping to customize your keyboard and make the keys that you use the most more accessible during game play, and optionally disabling the keys that can get in the way.

IconChanger enables you to assign a custom icon to any file on your computer - not only to a file type but to individual files as well. This allows you to highlight specific documents or files by assigning a custom icon, while leaving all other files of the same type unchanged. It integrates into the Windows Explorer right-click menu and allows you to easily customize your files by simply clicking and selecting a new icon for it. IconChanger comes with an integrated icon search tool that scans your system for icons and also allows you to copy or save individual icons for other uses.

O&O CleverCache tool to boost system performance by automatically optimizing Windows File Cache Management. It prevents excessive memory swapping and makes sure that a certain amount of memory is always available, which results in performance increase and lower response times, especially if you are running many applications at the same time and tend to switch between them quite often.

XtraTools 2008 combines more than 20 system utilities into a single application. It includes clean-up tools, a startup manager, registry cleaner and an uninstaller, as well as privacy tools to hide, encrypt and shred files. The program also includes a memory (RAM) optimizer with real-time monitor and benchmarking features, as well as and Extra Drive Creator to create and manage virtual hard drives and virtual CD drives.

Handy Folders adds a toolbar to Windows Explorer, that enables you to switch to your favorite folders or other drives with a single click. You can customize the list of folders, and also access them from the system tray icon for quick access from your desktop.

Vista Smoker Pro provides various system maintenance tools and tweaks that allows you to optimize and customize your system. The program includes features to clean your registry, find and remove junk files on your hard drive, view detailed system information and more. It also provides a auto-tune option that will automatically apply a set of optimized settings based on your system configuration. Other features include performance tweaks, startup manager, service manager, Internet Explorer tweaks and more.

SpeedUpMyPC enables you to optimize and clean your PC. It scans your computer and suggests potential performance improvements based on invalid registry entries, junk files, Internet settings, and also offers to clean-up Internet and PC usage tracks. SpeedUpMyPC also provides features to monitor disk activity, boost application performance, free unused memory (RAM) and control your startup programs. The program provides an easy-to-use interface, suitable for novice users. The evaluation version is a demo and only provides you with scan results, all optimization and clean-up features are disabled.

Ashampoo PowerUp 3 is a system management and tweaking tool that includes features to optimize, clean and customize your computer. It includes ready-to use profiles that allow you to tune and optimize your system, and you can also tweak settings manually. The program can automatically warn you about potentially dangerous system settings changes and the built-in restore feature can revert any changes you have made. Ashampoo PowerUp 3 includes registry cleaning, Internet connection tweaking, secure file deletion, system junk file clean-up, detailed system information, benchmark test as well as various tweaks and settings that can be applied to different areas of your system.

EnhanceMyVista includes tools and utilities to clean, maintain, secure and optimize your Vista PC. The program includes standard Internet and PC cleaning functions as well as common tweaks to disable features in Windows Explorer and IE. It also offers a Task Manager, Registry Cleaner, Startup Manager, Drive Cleaner, Defragmenter and a S.M.A.R.T disk monitor along with other features to customize the Vista interface and optimize system performance.

Keyboard Remapper enables you to assign custom functions to selected keyboard keys. You can choose to disable a key completely or assign a new action like launching a website or application, or have the program type a specific text when the key (or key combination) is pressed. You can also replace a key with any other one that is available on your keyboard.

Tweak Manager allows you to take complete control of your Windows system with access to hundreds of tweaks and hidden registry settings. The well organized interface enables quick access to various settings that affect the speed, security, efficiency and convenience of your computer. Tweak Manager also includes tweaks for many popular software applications including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. It includes a Live Update feature which allows you to easily keep the program up-to-date and download the latest tweaks for your system.

Tweaki is your Swiss Army knife of utilities. It allows you to configure, secure and optimize Windows, MS Office and Internet Explorer settings. You can easily add productivity enhancements like right click functions, perform privacy cleanups or tweak the Windows interface to fit the way you work. The program includes hundreds of tweaks that allow you to customize the look and feel of folders, locate and disable auto-start applications, edit the File/Open dialogs, adjust Windows XP ClearType technology, validate your IE Favorites, back up your drivers and much more. Tweaki...for Power Users also includes advanced options for NT/2000/XP users that allow to balance dual NIC cards and various other performance tweaks. If you wish to apply the tweaked settings to multiple computers (e.g a network), you can do so by simply connecting to the remote machines without having to install any software on them. Tweaki...for Power Users comes with complete Undo options, so you can revert any changes if needed.

Boost XP is a utility suite, that lets you tweak many Windows settings, enhance security, improve performance and more. It also includes a cache and cookie manager, a registry cleaner, startup manager, as well as tools to split files, repair corrupt zip files and securely delete documents. A Maintenance Wizard can help you to perform most of the common cleanup and maintenance tasks with a single click.

PS Tray Factory allows you to manage icons from all applications that appear in the system tray (next to the clock). You can hide inactive icons (already offered by Win XP), sort the order of icons, set hotkeys for selected icons and also minimize any application window to the system tray.

Task Commander enables you to easily launch and manage your programs without having to use the standard Programs menu. You can access your favorite applications from the system tray, manage running programs and minimize, hide or close them with advanced options. In addition, it includes a visual task switcher that replaces the standard Windows Task Switcher (Alt+Tab) and allows for visual selection of the application that you want to switch to. Additional features include hotkey support for common Window operations (hide all, minimize all, etc.) as well as a dynamic feature that allows you to add items to the HotLaunch menu automatically.

PhatBooster allows you to apply several system tweaks that may help to boost Internet, system and memory performance. In addition, it includes several system information displays, as well as local port scanner and a registry scan to find and fix potential problems. PhatBooster also contains a basic popup blocker and a simple screen capture tool that can save captures as BMP image.