PC Fresh

Abelssoft

PC Fresh is an optimizing tool that allows you to significantly improve your computer's performance without having to learn all the technical knowledge that comes when dealing with computers. At a first glance, the program's main window displays all the options that you have available: set all the services that are being executed in the background, set which ones should start up with Windows, adjust some speed limits and personalize some of its general options. Manoeuvring any of this is as simple as clicking on the icon, detecting any issues automatically and troubleshooting them in the same automatic way. Easy, fast and with no complications. PC Fresh is a very useful tool to improve the speed of your computer, especially when you use it to play video games. However, don't let yourself be cheated, although the application helps quite a lot, it is still not capable of performing any miracles.

DriveSmart

DriveSmart Group

WinXPatch

GravityFX

Windows 7 Little Tweaker

LeeLu Soft

Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a simple but effective free application for Windows 7 that gives you access to advanced settings of the O.S. Available settings are shown in a list next to a brief description and a checkbox. If you click on any of those editable options, you'll access a longer description to make sutre you want to modify it. New contextual menus, task manager, Internet Explorer enhancements, task bar poweru ups, etc. Windows 7 Little Tweaker also offers the possibility to set restore points to go back in case you donn't like the changes.

Memory and CPU Observer

MCO Enterprise

Use this application, and you'll never again have to ask for details about your computer: not its temperature, not the percentage of CPU being used, not how much free space you have on your hard drive, nor the speed of your Internet connection. With Memory and CPU Observer, you can find out how your computer is performing by looking at the information contained in three separate windows (the menus, colors, and aspect of which you can even change if you want to). You'll need the program Motherboard Monitor to be able to use all of the features included in MCO. You can download it here.

SetteMaxer

N/A

Windows 7 is present in more and more computers day by day. Lots of users are happy with its performance, but others want to optimize it, and they are who will welcome this application. SetteMaxer is a free application that promises us to power up the performance of our Windows 7 based computer. You'll find a list of options you can enable or disable to speed up what you think it's running slow. By this way, with no complications, you will be able to change settings to optimize your computer and make Windows 7 run better than ever.

Size Matters

Owen Mahoney

Size Matters is a small application of less than a megabyte in size that lets you continuously monitor the size of any file or folder on your hard drive. To do this just manually select the files or folders of interest and set a refresh time for the program to run its checks (anything between one minute and one day). Afterwards you'll see a column that constantly displays the current size of each individual file. All the file columns can be easily exported in CSV format at any time. Likewise, you can convert one of the file's registries to TXT format so you can view its incidents more easily. Size Matters is a very lightweight application that might prove super useful for users who are running out of space on their hard drives and want to know why.

T55 WinMate

N/A

T55 WinMate is an optimization suite that allows you to take the most out of your computer. It includes many different tabs that give you access to the different optimizations it can perform on your computer. Scan for dangerous files, clean the registry, delete junk files, uninstal programs, assign applications to startup, destroy files,... T55 WinMate is a full-featured application that can be very helpful if you want to have your computer in perfect conditions.

RamAgent

Digital Lonhorn

SysCheckUp

N/A

SysCheckUp is the cleaning applicaitton for Windows you neded to make your computer run smoothlier than ever. Clean and repair tools allow you to take the most out of your computer. If you thinkn your computer is runing slower and slower, download SysCheckUp and run it. It will scan your computer and will tell you the errors it can fix. Fix those errors and clean thing told by the program and you'll notice how your computer will thank you. It finds obsolte shortcuts, duplicate entries in Windows Registry, duplicate files,... If there's somthing wrong in your computer, it will tel you. You can find in SysCheckUp the perfect partner when trying to make your computer run smoothly.

Puran Defrag

Puran Software

Portinho Boot XP

Bernardo de M. Porto

Do you miss those wonderful months in which your computer started in a matter of seconds? Have you ever wondered if you would ever be able to recover the lost speed in your system startup? With Portinho Boot XP you might not be able to completely recover this speed, but you will at least speed up your computer’s start-up process. Portinho Boot XP is a small application that optimizes some key aspects of your system in order to ensure shorter loading times during your startup process. The actions carried out by Portinho Boot XP include the following: - Defragment system files. - Clean the Prefetcher (Windows memory management system). - Optimize the system's cache memory. - Optimize system files.

Zoom

Dachshund Software

Warning: This software is not the 'ZOOM Cloud Meetings' video conferencing tool. The Windows version of this software is available at Uptodown. Zoom is a tool that lets you shut down and power up your computer quickly, and may even double the speed of your Windows start up. It also improves the speed in sleep mode and standby mode, making it ideal for most laptop users. You also have a number of interesting options at your disposal, like the chance to activate required reboots (which, as the name suggests, turns your computer off when required) or alarm mode (which ask you if you are sure you want to turn off the computer before doing so). Zoom could be a very useful application, since most users tend to have problems with slow speeds when turning their computer on and off.

Vista Manager

Yamicsoft Software

Now that we have Windows Vista in some computers, we realize that even if you install the latest O.S., it should be tweaked and optimized. That’s the reason why we offer you now this utility which will help you when tweaking your new OS. It offers you detailed system and hardware information, running processes and threads. Of course you can repair anything you want with just a click. Speed is important, very important and if you want your PC to be faster, you’ll have to tweak it and improve windows startup and shutdown and at the same time you’ll power up its performance. Vista Manager also offers you cleaning tools, customization options, security and network setup and more. If you have Windows Vista installed, you need Vista Manager. It will power up your PC and you’ll realize the real power of your new Operating System in your PC.

Hidden Utilities

Camtech 2000

Hidden Utilities is a lite tool that allows you to execute more than 200 Windows utilities. It doesn't include any of them, in fact, all those utilities have een in your compputer since you started using it, but they are not easy to find. The interface of the program is divided in two zones. You'll find all utilities on the left and command lines on the right. They are all there, from notepad to the calculator passing y screen options or screensaver, as well as other hard-to-access options like registry or other modifications. Hidden Utilities is an interesting application for all those users who usuall use Windows utilities and want to have them at a hand.

Memory Booster Gold

wincarepro

Memory Booster Gold is a tool for optimizing your computer's performance and correct any problem that comes from the inappropriate use of the CPU's memory. To do this, the program will defrag the memory in use that the inactive files are using and will show at any moment how much real memory each program is using and how much is free, so that you can manually implement changes. Also, Memory Booster Gold will adjust your CPU's priorities automatically,and will analyze and recognize the apps that you use most and will instantly close any process that could be dangerous for your computer. Memory Booster Gold is a pretty interesting app for users whose computer isn't functioning as well as it should since the app lets you review it and put everything in order.

Speed Optimizer

Speedbit

SpeedOptimizer is a tool designed to improve your computer's performance in the simplest way possible: one click. The program helps you fix invalid file extensions, problems with ActiveX, corrupt uninstallers, redundant DLLs, broken direct accesses, and more. Everything, of course, is done after you click once on the optimize button. SpeedOptimizer can also improve your Internet connection through an identical process - one click and you're done. SpeedOptimize is one of the best options you have if you're considering installing this type of application. It has a clean, clear interface, couldn't be easier to control, and contains effective features.

KeyRun

Fernando Marin

EnhanceMySe7en

SeriousBit

Windows 7 has arrived to stay here for a long time, and, as usual, all users are arguing about its performance and some developers are creating software to improve it. EnhaceMySe7en is a free application that will power up the performance of Windows Seven. It modifies some settings and delete extra lines to make the system run smoothlier. The program is divided into four different tabs: Tools, system, optimizations and customization. The tab Tools offers you information about hardware and software and make changes in running processes and startup programs. The tab system is to configure some security options, temporary files, control panel and restore points. The section Optimization will offer you advanced options to addapt our system and take the most out of it. Finally, the pcustomization tab lets you personalize Windows 7 and make it suit your needs. By this way, EnhaceMySe7en becoms a very important tool for all Windows 7 users who want it to run better.

BootRacer

Greatis Software

BootRacer is a simple application that times how long your computer takes to get started. The program is very easy to use and its only utility is to tell you if you should boost it up or not. How many times have you wondered how long your computer takes to get started? Now you can know it exactly thanks to this curious application. It's like a rage against the chronometer and the only challenger is your computer.

Slow PC Fighter

SPAMfighter

Slow PC Fighter scans your computer in search of erroneous registry entries and other elements that could slow down your computer, and quickly repairs them. Using the program is as easy as following these two simple steps: scan your PC with one click and repair the errors with another click. Invalid directories, obsolete registry entries, corrupt text fonts, bad DLL files, corrupt uninstall files, useless help files … any small error that could slow down your computer is easily fixed. Slow PC Fighter is a very interesting tool, although its limit of 25 repairs (it normally detects between 1,000 and 5,000 errors) seems extremely insufficient in order to benefit from the trial version.

Start Menu 8

IObit.com

Windows 8 and 8.1 came without the traditional start button from earlier versions of the same operating system, so some users had some trouble accessing certain features and options to which they were accustomed. Start Menu 8 is perfect for all those people, since it brings the original start button back, putting it in the same place where it has always been, with the same appearance it had in previous versions. Start Menu 8 modifies the more modern Windows interface, allowing the computer to boot directly to the previous operating system image. Your PC will have the same appearance as Windows 7 but with all the features of the newer version. Although this program is intended to restore the start button on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, it can also be used with Windows 7, XP, and Vista if you want to change the start button in those, too. From the application’s settings, you can make the button look more than a dozen different ways, including the system icons and other fun shapes like a little pig, or a V for Vendetta mask.

Super Finder

FreeSoftLand

Are you tired of the limitations of the Windows search engine? Super Finder is the application that will solve those searching problems. It is a usful application that offers you some advanced features not included in the original Windows search application. Super Finder is divided into several tabs, so you can search for an specific word, application, type of file, filter your search results,... Choose if you'll see hidden files or not, choose the maximum and minimum size of the file you are searching for and more. By this way, you'll get a moe exact result, you will not have to search for the file again in the result list, because the result list will be better and smaller. Finally, you can access super finder from the right-click menu.

StartW8

N/A

StartW8 is a small application that, once installed, recovers the beloved Windows start button for users of Windows 8. When you install the program, the start button returns to its place in the lower left-hand corner of the screen where it belongs. Clicking on the button reveals everything you'd expect: recent programs, documents, images, videos, computer shutdown, etc. In addition to all that, StartW8 allows you to make some other configurations to the start menu. Among those is the language as well as exactly which elements you'd like to be displayed when you open the menu. StartW8 is the ideal application for all of those users who changed to Windows 8 but still miss the classic start button. This way, you'll always have it close by. And, best of all, you don't have to pay anything - it's completely free.

AnVir Task Manager

AnVir Software

Anvir Task Manager is a task manager including a good bunch of interesting features that will be loved by advanced users. It allows you to monitor all processes giving you an stimation of the risk for your computer, the resource consumption, location In addition it allows you to eliminate and clean any traces of virus, spyware or Trojans that your antivirus software doesn't delete. You can also modify the list of programs running in Windows startup and boost it up. In short, Anvir Task Manager is an useful application that allows you to modify some settings to make your computer run better.

Advanced Mouse Auto Clicker

N/A

Advanced Mouse Auto Clicker is a curious tool that allows you to click automatically without needing to press the buttons on the mouse. In the program settings, you can choose a series of options, such as the frequency of clicks (in seconds, minutes, and hours), and the button utilized (left, central, or right), if it is double or single clicks, or if you want the cursor to return to a specific point on the screen after completing the operation. To enable the application, you have a couple keyboard shortcuts that will save you from even more hassle, because now you can complete some complex tasks without needing to reach for the mouse. Advanced Mouse Auto Clicker is a very peculiar application, whose usefulness will depend largely on the user's needs. For some, it will be completely useless, while others will find it to be a a lot of help.

Win8Starter

Engelmann Media GmbH

With Windows 8, the start button disappeared from the desktop, and many users who were used to accessing tasks or shutting down the computer from this area have had a hard time adapting to the change. Using Win8Starter you can put the start button and start menu back where they belong, making it easier to access common menu options. It's easy to adjust the application's functions, and you'll see that all of your programs and buttons will integrate uniformly into your new Windows menu.

Open-Shell

Open-Shell

MultiMon

Resplendence Software

MultiMon is a real-time process monitoring tool that lets you see what's going on inside your computer at all times. The program offers three different types of monitoring. The first focuses on the file activity from the point of view of the application itself. The second lets you do the same from the perspective of the system files. And the last one lets you 'oversee' files from the Windows manager. In addition to this, MultiMon lets you monitor the clipboard, keyboard, and activities in progress. If you're interested, the result of your activities can be exported in a text document where you can clearly see all the information. MultiMon is a tool geared toward people with relatively advanced IT knowledge. If this isn't your case, you probably won't find it very useful.

SIW (System Info)

Gabriel Topala

SIW (System Info) is a simple tool which will allow you to know everything having to do with the software and hardware installed on your PC. All data related with configurations and installed elements in your PC. It doesn’t need to be installed, because it’s executable directly from any drive. Its simple and intuitive interface is divided into three different parts: - Hardware: Detailed system info, CPU, Bios, PCI, installed cards, USB devices,... - Software: Operating system, DLL libraries, crypted files, codecs, authors,... - Network: Security level, ports, connected servers, active connections, TCP/IP, etc. And all this completely free.