Sometimes Windows is so complex that only specialists can keep their systems properly configured and tweaked in order to get the best performance and user experience.
Ashampoo PowerUp 3, all-in-one system optimizer, includes a great number of useful utilities to make your PC perform faster such as a Registry Cleaner, bootup optimizer, overall system tuneup tools, and features that customize how you access your network. With this software you save time and are able to configure and maintain Windows and Windows Vista. This is like a single control center for all your Windows settings and explains everything simply.
This new version comes with more protection against incorrect settings, more control, more configuration options and makes the entire process easier than ever before. Also, it has a beautiful new graphical design for Windows Vista! However, Ashampoo PowerUp 3 focuses more on power users than beginners who want to tune up their systems. Also, it doesn't involve detailed advice and wizards–it shows you the options, describes what they do, and enables you to take it from there.
Ashampoo PowerUp 3 offers the following new features:
- Fully compatible with Windows Vista,
- Profile Assistant: Helps you to customize your system by modifying existing profiles,
- Profile Manager: Create, delete, modify and export your own configuration profiles that you can use to change all your system settings in seconds,
- Ready-to-use profiles: A set of professionally tuned profiles for super-fast optimization of your system,
- Profile export: Save profiles on external media and apply them independently,
- QuickStart Bar: Direct access to tweaks and settings for fast customization of your system,
- Automatic System Scan: Adjusts the presentation of all options to match your individual system requirements,
- Risk Level Monitor: Warns you about potentially risky settings,
- Rescue Center: Records all configuration changes you make and enables you to return to your original settings at any time,
- Processes: A management console provides detailed information on active processes and enables you to kill them if necessary,
- Services: Recommendations and configuration options for many Windows services – improve performance by disabling unnecessary services,
- Benchmarking: Check your system performance with a detailed analysis and report,
- Profile Manager: Helps you to optimize system performance and behavior,
- System Diagnostics: Generates a detailed report on your computer's components,
- Icon Manager: Saves the layout of the icons on your desktop so that you can restore it if it gets "messed up",
- Skins: Three new skins to change the appearance and style of the program,
- Improved setting help: Context-sensitive pop-up descriptions of all settings provide all the information you need on every option,
- Improved Windows optimization: For all system areas in Windows 2000, XP and Windows Vista,
- Many new settings: A wealth of new options for customizing and the Windows user interface and enhancing performance,
- Online Update: Add new tuning options and solve issues and problems quickly.
In time you will discover all the existing features and improvements this software has to offer:
- System Information: Analyzes your hardware and software and displays a detailed report,
- Autostart: Configuration options for how Windows starts,
- Windows tuning: Direct access to hundreds of Windows settings and configuration options with detailed information – many new options,
- Configuration profiles: Save your own Windows configurations as "profiles" that you can load to reconfigure your entire system in seconds,
- Hidden Windows options: Access many "secret" Windows settings that are normally difficult or impossible to change,
- MS Office: Configure hard-to-find Office settings quickly and easily (incl. support for the latest Office versions),
- MS Outlook: Configure permitted mail attachments for Microsoft Outlook (incl. support for the latest Outlook versions),
- Privacy: View, understand and configure Windows functions and settings that can be critical for protecting your privacy,
- Hard disk acceleration: Display and adjust settings that control the performance of your hard disks
- Registry clean-up: Quickly identify and eliminate old or invalid entries that are clogging up your Windows Registry database,
- Wipe files: Delete sensitive files permanently so that even data recovery labs can never access their contents,
- IP spam blocker: Disable the Windows messaging service that spammers often use to display annoying advertising on your desktop,
- Tuning Assistant: Comprehensive and safe system tune-up with just a few clicks, with automatic backups as a safety net,
- AntiSpy Assistant: Prevents unauthorized access to your personal data in Windows and Windows Vista,
- Uninstall Windows components: Get rid of faulty Windows components which cannot be uninstalled through the usual way anymore,
- Language Editor: Edit or translate all texts and menus displayed in the program.
Resources:
Review on Optimization Tool
Describing Ashampoo PowerUp 3
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