Category: Software → Ashampoo WinOptimizer v6.5

Microsoft Windows may have got more advanced but the need for effective maintenance is greater than ever. If you don’t houseclean your computer system regularly the digital garbage that collects over time makes it slower and can even cause inexplicable errors – usually when you need them least.
With the reliability of 11 years of experience, Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2010 makes Windows maintenance fast and easy – and it works for Windows XP just as well as it does for Vista. The One-click Optimizer does what it says and you can even schedule it to run automatically so that you don’t need to think about it at all. It keeps your Windows computer running as fast and smoothly as on the first day you bought it.
In addition to efficient Windows maintenance you also get a whole suite of powerful, easy-to-use tools that enable you to configure and tune your Windows computer so that it works exactly the way you want it to.

Function Modules:

Clean Up System
- Optimize your hard disk drives with Drive Cleaner: Gets rid of general redundant files.
- Cleanup your internet files with Internet Cleaner: Cleans up the temporary files and "data trail" left by Internet surfing sessions.
- Cleanup your registry with Registry Optimizer: Cleans up leftover garbage in the Windows® registry. See also the chapter The Windows® Registry.
- One-Click-Optimization: Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2010 optimizes your complete Windows® with only one click. If you use the default options, the functions Drive Cleaner, Registry Optimizer and Internet Cleaner are executed automatically.

Optimize Performance
- Defrag 3. This is the ultimate option for a simple and efficient defragmentation of your hard drives.
- Control the system start with the StartUp Tuner: Disable annoying and malicious programs that waste your system resources.
- Process Manager: The Process Manager is an essential tool for dealing with badly-behaved programs.
- Faster, smoother and snappier internet surfing with Internet Tuner: Optimizes your Internet connection for faster, more efficient performance.

Privacy and Security
- Delete files forever with File Wiper: Permantly removes files and folders so that they cannot be restored.
- File Encrypter and Decrypter. This module enables you to encrypt files to prevent others from accessing their contents without your permission.

Tune System Settings
- Tweaking. A control centre for adjustment of your Windows® system settings (Security, Login, Internet Explorer, Messenger, Error Handling and more).
- Icon Saver: Saves and restores the arrangement of your desktop icons.

Diagnosis and Information
- DiskSpace Explorer. Analyzes and displays how the space on your hard disk is used. The information can be sorted dynamically and displayed in graphs.
- System Information. Shows detailed information of installed devices and software.This information is helpful for error checks and support features.
- System-Benchmark: The System Benchmark module tests the processor (integer and floating point) and memory performance of your system and compares the aggregate result with the performance of reference systems.

File Tools
- Windows® Functions. This section provides direct access to the three most useful Windows® tools, making it much easier to use them regularly.
- File Splitter & Joiner: Enables you to split large files into smaller parts. Later you may join or respectivly reassemble the the smaller parts back into the original file.

Backup
- Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2010 stores all changes made to the Windows® registry or important changes yof the system configuration in backup files. If you don't want to keep a change, just remove it!