WinSettings 5.1.1

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• Price: Free to try (Time-limited trial); $39.95 to buy (Buy it now)
• Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: October 13, 2002
• Total Downloads: 228,382
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on December 05, 2008

This program proves good things do come in small packages. While WinSettings focuses on protecting your online privacy and security, you also can use it to control screensavers and wallpaper images, change tray and system icons, customize start-up and shutdown routines, and establish background music.

The straightforward interface provides access to all the options through a program icon in the system tray or via the Control Center's tabbed interface. Along with its interesting and useful system settings and history cleaners, it includes unexpected features, such as a screen-capture utility and a Web pop-up blocker. The excellent File Associations tool offers all the tools you need to view and set active icons for each file type, as well as choose default actions, right-click options, and default programs. We used it to repair our Adobe Acrobat file association, which had broken while we were testing other software.

With its potpourri of functions, WinSettings should meet the needs of most power users.

Publisher's description

WinSettings is a Windows system tray utility that protects your online privacy and security, cleans up unwanted tracks left on the computer, lets you gain more control of your Windows Desktop, and makes better use of acquired multimedia contents. WinSettings automates the clean up process so the computer can be guaranteed free of selected tracks and junk at start-up. It also lets you clean up all tracks quickly at any time with just a single click, another feature not available in Windows. WinSettings lets you clean up Web surfing and other tracks, including AutoComplete data such as passwords, forms, cookies, history folder, typed URLs, cache, Documents menu, and temporary files automatically or on demand. The latest version offers you 29 options to clean up your tracks.

It is also a screen-capture utility with automatic capture and e-mail options. The latest version offers you 16 ways to capture, e-mail, or save screens. You can also quickly change Windows' style and appearance, play background music in a variety of formats including MP3 with your own play lists, create a screensaver control, analyze disk usage, and quickly change file association. The new WinSettings Image Lab feature offers you all the basic image editing tools you need when working digital photos, from convert, crop, print, and resize to one-touch editing tools, such as enhance, contrast, sharpen and add formatted text annotation to your screen capture or photo.

Version 5.1.1 adds the start-up wizard to let you optionally select Auto Clean and other start-up options at installation. To install and use WinSettings: run the downloaded EXE file and install the program to a folder of your choice. Right click on the program tray icon in the system tray (next to the Clock) to access all the commands. To uninstall: First right click on the tray icon and select Exit in the right click menu to exit the program. Then, use Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel to uninstall WinSettings.

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