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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $49.99 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: Date unavailable
- Total Downloads: 853,811
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 147 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Along with necessary support for Windows Vista, Version 3 of Ashampoo PowerUp sports a new look and adds useful features such as automatic backups for restoring previous configurations and a Risk Level Monitor that displays the potential dangers of certain tweaks. It's not perfect, but a well-designed interface that logically organizes PC settings, strong performance, and a very extensive list of customization options help earn the product a top rating.
The Windows tweaks available in Ashampoo PowerUp are too numerous to list, but if you've ever wanted to customize the number of rows in your Alt Tab panel, turn off autostart for disc drives and portable devices, remove your username from the Start menu, or disable sending error reports in Office 2007, you're covered. The interface is divided into six main sections: Home, for system overview, backups, and preferences; Optimize, for fine-tuning your system, drives, network, and software programs; Clean Up, for cleaning your Registry and securely deleting files; Customize, for a wide range of tweaks for your desktop, Windows Explorer, icons, and more; Manage, for handling your AutoStart options, Windows Services, and running processes; and Information, which includes details about your PC configuration.
Under the Home -> Assistant tab, there is a helpful new Profiles option that lets you set your PC for Performance, Security, or a balance of the two. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any way to save our own customized profiles, which would be very useful for computers with more than one user. The new backup feature is logical and worked great. The new benchmarking features are interesting for comparing your PC setup with other configurations, but the final score would benefit with a bit more explanation.
We occasionally saw German dialog boxes ("Ja" or "Nein") when making tweaks with PowerUp 3, but there were no major stability problems, and resource usage was respectable. The trial alone offers full functionality for 10 days; registering for a free Ashampoo account adds an extra 30 days. That's a minor annoyance when compared with the generous 40-day evaluation period. We still highly recommend Ashampoo PowerUp for Windows users.
Publisher's description
From Ashampoo :Tune up your computer like a pro in seconds. Stumped by Windows configuration? If you've ever tried to adjust how Windows behaves or performs you already know the problem. You can configure just about anything but the settings seem to be hidden in hundreds of different places. And even if you do find them you need a degree in rocket science and Chinese to understand them. Ashampoo PowerUp XP Platinum 2 takes the hassle out of tuning up your Windows computer. One click is all it takes to optimize your computer for office work, gaming, media editing or maximum resources (memory). Now you can switch your setup in seconds depending on what you are doing. You don't have to do your own tuning but if you want to the program puts all the relevant Windows settings at your fingertips. And it explains in detail what every single one does at the click of the mouse. Plus it includes several powerful new tools that give you even more control over your computer.
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