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This story was printed from Anchordesk,
located at http://review.zdnet.com/AnchorDesk/.
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Fine Tune Windows with this inexpensive add-on
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| By Bill Machrone: Contributing Editor PC Magazine |
| Friday, January 26, 2001 |
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Windows will never be perfect.
And even if it were perfect for me, it wouldn't be for you.
MINI-INDUSTRY
That's why there's a mini-industry in Windows tuning and tweaking products, some of them free, some bundled into larger utility suites and some stand-alone.
Tweak-Me is one of the latter and, as you'll see from our review, has a broad range of useful functions, including memory optimization, memory and file cleanup, greater crash resistance and control over many settings that would otherwise take a journeyman's knowledge of the Registry and Windows' overall architecture.
CONVENIENCE AT 20 BUCKS
For 20 bucks, Tweak-Me offers a lot of convenience. There's very little in Tweak-Me that you couldn't do with existing Windows controls, utilities, RegEdit, and some well-chosen free utilities, such as PC Magazine's own Startup Cop.
But too many of the things you want to do are four or five menu levels down or buried in obscure Registry entries. Tweak-Me puts a very usable face on all that esoterica.
For more details, read PC Magazine's review of Tweak-Me.