Tweak

Stock motherboards run their fans on whatever curve the BIOS decided was reasonable, which usually means louder than necessary or warmer than ideal, rarely the […]

Optimizer is a portable tweaking tool that gathers the privacy switches, service toggles and cleanup jobs people normally hunt for across settings pages, registry keys […]

Anybody who keeps a dozen browser tabs open has wondered why the file manager insists on a window per folder. Clover adds tabs to the […]

Anyone who has owned a gaming laptop for more than a few months has probably watched it choke under load. The CPU spikes, the fans […]

Rivatuner Statistics Server draws numbers over a game while it runs and, if you ask, holds the frame rate to a number you choose. The […]

SetFSB lets you overclock your processor live from the desktop, without ever touching the BIOS. It works by talking straight to the motherboard’s clock generator, […]

Wu10Man is a control panel for the parts of the operating system that download and install updates on their own. It lists the five services […]

The tweaking category is full of software that promises to make a computer faster and delivers a cleaner-looking control panel over the same settings. Winaero […]

NZXT Cam does two jobs, and it does the first on any computer. Install it and it monitors the machine, with live graphs of processor […]

Some programs need elevated rights every single time they run, and the consent prompt that appears becomes a reflex you stop reading within a week. […]

Suites promising to speed up a computer arrive with a reputation problem earned by the category rather than by any one product. TweakPower belongs to […]

Improve your privacy when using Windows 10 by using Destroy Windows Spying, a simple but effective application that enables you to prevent Windows 10 from […]

NSudo launches programs with privilege levels that sit above even an administrator, reaching the System and TrustedInstaller accounts that own the most protected corners of […]

ASUS GPU Tweak III tunes a graphics card from one window. Pick a preset, OC Mode for a modest boost, Silent Mode for a quieter […]

Most people who install this are not trying to make a processor faster. They are trying to make it cooler, because a machine that overheats […]