Most PC speedup programs are, let’s be blunt, a disappointment. They’re frequently jammed with weak options that make no difference to your system’s speed at all. And some are so badly written that they can actually slow you down.

There are a few high quality exceptions to this rule, and Auslogics BoostSpeed 5 is among the much better ones. The program brushes aside the questionable tips advocated by so many of the competition, and instead focuses on genuinely useful techniques and technologies that really can revitalize almost every area of your PCs performance. And, best of all, you do not need to be a Windows expert to make this come about.

Here is a quick mention of just some of the tools available:

• A duplicate File Finder to scan your drives, searching duplicate files and letting you delete them.
• An Explore Disk option analyses your hard drive, then reports how all those gigabytes are being used (or misused!)
• Having liberated a few gigabytes from your hard drive, for example, you might then be able to significantly raise its performance by running the bundled Auslogics Disk Defrag.
• Auslogics Startup Manager can display your Windows startup programs, letting you disable unwanted entries (and save valuable system resources) at a click.
• The Startup Manager displays file handlers, shell extensions and IE add-ons beside the list of typical startup programs, for example, so it’s unusually comprehensive.
• The program can assure you in many cases which files are trustworthy, and which could be dangerous, making it easy to get rid of spyware and other threats from the list.
• You also get an remarkably easy way to optimise your Windows service settings.
• The program then picks out services that you can probably do without, and these will be ended in a click.
• A Locked Files section lists all the files your running programs have open, which both tells you what they’re doing, and, if you want to delete or move a file that’s locked, lets you know who’s holding on to it.
• A valuable set of privacy tools include options to delete your application, Windows and browser histories, securely delete confidential files so they can’t be recovered later, and even scrub entire hard drives clean of your personal information.

Check it out at Auslogics

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