WinUtilities Free

There are many issues which may cause a computer to work slower and crash often. Fortunately, there are also many ways to prevent these issues. Cleaning up the hard drive and registry, shutting down non-critical processes or disabling startup programs are just a few examples. WinUtilities Free places a wide range of tools at your disposal, which you can use to keep your system in prime condition. The software can remove system and Internet temp files, clean up the registry, optimize the RAM usage and much more.

The software is free, as the name clearly points out, but you have to upgrade to a paid version if you wish to use certain features. Fortunately, the software's core features are fully functional and it won't hinder you with any nag screens. WinUtilities Free can be installed in a matter of seconds, on all modern Windows versions and you don't have to meet any special requirements.

WinUtilities Free comes with numerous maintenance and optimization modules, which are neatly categorized on a user friendly interface. You can find cleanup and repair tools for the hard drive and registry, optimization features for the registry, disk and RAM and much more. The software is not limited to removing temp files and broken registry entries. It provides a series of privacy and security tools as well. You can use them to shred files, protect documents and executables, erase Internet history files, cookies or saved passwords and more.

Other utilities can help you increase your computer's performance. For example, the memory optimizer provides you with information about the RAM usage on your system and it can optimize it in just a few seconds. The same can be done with the CPU and you can also set the utility to optimize automatically if the free memory drops below a given value. The Process Security utility is another good way to boost a computer's performance and security. You can think of it as an enhanced Windows Task Manager, which allows you to bring up additional information about running processes or look them up on Google.

WinUtilities Free provides a one-click maintenance feature as well. You can check a series of maintenance tasks, like clearing the clipboard, removing Internet temporary data, junk files and more, in a different section of the user interface. Once you select one or more tasks, you only need to click a button and the software will execute them right away, without prompting you for anything.