If your notebook suffers from sluggish performance, chances are that the PC is a victim of poor notebook maintenance. It’s understandable, as tinkering with Windows’ inner guts can be intimidating. Fortunately, Macecraft offers a solution in jv16 PowerTools 2009, a utility (starting at $29.99 for one license) that is designed to clean your notebook’s registry to help your system run faster, safer, and stay free of performance problems. The software offers many different (and highly detailed) methods to clean your system, which makes it a solid tool for power users, but somewhat complex to the uninitiated.
When compared to other utilities, PowerTools 2009 is not as intuitive, but allows veteran users to make very specific adjustments to their systems. The brightly colored interface consists of a sidebar that contains the four repair and cleansing categories (Registry Tools, File Tools, System Tools, and Privacy Tools). Clicking on one reveals a number of different options, which again, will seem somewhat opaque for novices, but will please those with advanced knowledge. For example, the Registry Find & Replace option in the Registry Tools menu will probably only be useful for a handful of people. For others, confronting numerous icons like these may prove intimidating.
The only true one-click fix option can be found buried in the System Cleaner menu, under Privacy Tools. This cleans out temporary files and unused directories. Alongside it is History Cleaner, which removes the history lists of your most used applications.
New to this year’s edition of PowerTools is the inclusion of System Optimizer and Service Manager. The former disables system processes that run in the background (such as DOS 8.7), and explains what it does in plain English, so that even novices can understand; the latter lets you disable or outright delete items that you may not use (such as fax or Bluetooth support).
Source : www.laptopmag.com
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