Toolwiz Care 1.0.0.1700

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on December 20, 2011

Toolwiz Care is an all-in-one system cleaning and optimizing tool. It's actually a number of useful tools bundled together, including a registry cleaner, disk cleaner, and various system utilities and tweaks. It's designed to help users boost the performance of older PCs by cleaning out junk files and entries and defragmenting disk drives. But users who boot from a solid-state drive (SSD) should avoid the disk defragmenting tool and some of the program's tweaks, which can undo some of the changes many users make deliberately when installing SSDs.

Toolwiz Care's colorful user interface is fairly typical of system care utilities, with its various functions accessible by toolbar icons: Checkup, Cleanup, Speedup, Security, Tools, and App Manager. Some functions are accessible under multiple headings, and the program starts with an all-in-one Checkup scan and repair. We scanned our system but chose to access the various cleaners and optimizers separately, in part to gauge each tool's effectiveness but also to avoid triggering an automatic defrag of our SSD boot drive. But the various individual tools let us select or deselect items to scan, clean, or ignore. The program cleaned unneeded registry and disk items with no ill effects. Toolwiz identifies security risks, too, such as networks shares. The Privacy cleaner empties browser caches and other places where personal data lurks. While the cleanup tools are fairly straightforward, we recommend more care in the system tweaks department, since the program can disable some error-reporting features, alter your network settings, and make other changes, some of which can speed up older computers, and others of which can cause hours of troubleshooting. When in doubt, leave it out.

Most users who boot from one of the new, ultrafast SSDs probably won't need all of the tweaks and tools Toolwiz offers, though it packs many features that will be of interest to any Windows user, such as the App Manager, which gives detailed information about your programs, plus many interesting extras like a Duplicate File Finder, Disk Doctor, Repair Network, and File Shredder and Recovery Tools. As always, we recommend using any system cleaner or tweaker with care and knowledge.

Publisher's Description

From Toolwiz Software:

Toolwiz Care is a totally free tool set designed to speed up your PC and give your system full care. With multi-functional optimization suite, this software provides a collection of tools that includes System Checkup,System Cleanup,System Speedup,System Virtualization and 40+ powerful tools to enhance PC performance, security, and to optimize the start-up procedure. Toolwiz guarantees users that the freeware will stay free. This tool suite is designed for all levels of PC users from beginners to experts.

Timefreeze tool will keep your system safe and protect your computer from unwanted changes. The Eyes Care tool will protect your eyes with scheduled warning. Registry Cleaner tool will make your system more stable by cleaning out the bad Registry entries. Disk Cleaner tool will clean out all junk files. History Cleaner will protect your privacy by deleting all activity history and surfing traces. Fast Defrger will de-fragment the hard drive with it's smart engine, keep your system running efficiently and prevent the formation of other fragmented files. Checkup module will provide a full report of your system and allow the user to fix all problems with one simple click. Boot Report will provide a easy to read report that shows the start-up time of your system. It offers a detailed list of the processes loaded since booting. Startup Optimizer allows you to disable or delay the loading of any startup entries. It also provides you with suggestions of standard processes. Registry Defrager rebuilds PC's Registry, making the entire system run quicker and smoother. The Game Booster concentrates every system resource for gaming purpose.File Shredder helps you to shred and permanently remove unwanted files/folders from your computer beyond recovery. Disk Wipper completely erases the free space in your hard disk to prevent other one to recovery the removed files in the disk. File Recovery tool helps you to find the files you have deleted before and you can recovery any of them easily. Registry Backup and Restore helps you to backup or restore your Regidtry with a simple click.Password Manager is designed to help you create secure passwords that are extremely difficult to crack or guess. Also it can help you to manage your password, account and other private information. Disk Doctor helps you to check your hard disk both in I/O access and file system and give you a full report for the checking.

What's new in this version: Version 1.0.0.1700 added Image Editor, improved the Screen Capturer, improved the Toolbar, fixed several minor errors.