A Simple To Use Tweak Utility for Windows XP: Advanced XP Tweak
Every computer powered by the Windows XP Home or Professional Edition sooner or later will show a lower performance due to various issues like the existence of a high number of unneeded applications instances running automatically at startup, the improper usage of Internet browsers due to the presence of a high amount of temporary files, low disk space on the partition containing the operating system and more.
Tweaking utilities can improve or restore the performance of an operating system without being the need of reinstalling it. Advanced XP Tweak is one of the tweaking utilities suitable to use in the context of Windows XP operating systems (Home or Professional version). It allows the optimization of an existing Windows XP operating system based on a series of tools available for the user from an intuitive graphical user interface.
After the download the executable file, the automatic installer will guide the user to setup the application. The interface menu is similar with the Windows Explorer one determining a better understanding of application functionality for people used to Windows XP default interface.
The Advanced XP Tweak application graphical user interface menu contains three sections: Utilities, Tweaks and Help/Options. In the Utilities section there are available entries that permit the access with a single mouse click of various tools allowing the display or management of system information, installed programs, startup programs entries, DLLs, cookies, hard disk clean up options and more.
The last entry in the Utilities menu section entitled Windows Tools offers the user the opportunity to directly access various important Windows operating system management tools and utilities such as Device Manager, Indexing Service, Computer Management, Registry Editor, Performance Monitor, Backup Utility, Disk Defragmenter and others.
In the next menu category, Tweaks, the user can choose the desired options to optimize the performance of its Windows XP operating system. There are available tweaks for system, start menu, Internet Explorer, system security, desktop and miscellaneous tweaks.
The overall system performance can be improved by enabling or disabling various features and services like the paging file clear at shutdown, boot defragmentation, automatically unload of DLLs from RAM, disk cache size, CD autorun, Windows Messenger and more. Unfortunatelly, the Internet Explorer tweaks available will not improve visibly its performance. The security issues that can be tweaked are related to: Control Panel applets, folder properties, context menu, task manager, add remove programs and network settings.
The Advanced XP Tweak can start with Windows automatically, minimized or not. It can be also employed to display warnings and messages. These options can be locked with a password.
The help is very comprehensive in useful and direct information, even a complete system of help tooltips captions is implemented in the program functionality that determines a better usage and understanding of key functions by the user.
The application Advanced XP Tweak has a low file size after installation (approximately 768 KB) and is a process that not consumes a high amount from the free RAM. The results of tweaking your system with this utility (after you read the help file in order not to perform irreversible changes or damages to your hardware or operating system) will definitely will be reflected in a visible improvement of the overall performance.
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