TweakPower – the Right Windows Tweaking Tool

By Robert Last updated Mar 5, 2022 0

Do I Need to Use a Windows Tweaking Tool?

As we all know, all Windows versions from 98 to 11 lose their functionality after a while when you use them and install programs and applications on them. The registry of Windows becomes bigger and some preferences of Windows might change when the user installs different applications and changes Windows settings.

Although there are many good windows uninstaller tools to clean the registry of windows to make it clean and optimized, still some users might not be able to get the speed of their fresh Windows.

It is totally common that some Windows users feel their windows was much faster when it was newly installed and they wish to have a freshly installed windows but as they have used their Windows for a long time, customized it and installed applications they needed on it, they don’t like to do all the hard work of installing Windows and must install Windows apps on it again.

All these convince users to benefit from a tool to tweak and optimize windows to make it as close to newly installed Windows as possible. One of the best free Windows tweaking tools that can help Windows clients with many features is TweakPower.

TweakPower Windows Tweaking Tool

TweakPower is a complete Windows optimization tool that offers many features for free. The features and possibilities are more than a few. You will have many options to choose from to tweak your Windows operating system.

The main interface of TweakPower includes a brief summary about the overall health of your Windows. It includes a summary about your system information, Windows version, physical RAM amount, CPU and graphics card. To get detailed information about your hardware, you could click on the information button and see detailed hardware information.

At the bottom of main Window, you see a brief status of the health of your windows OS. This Section includes information about: disk performance and health, security issues of your Windows, hard disk health, bootup and shutdown times.

Before reviewing all features of TweakPower we should say, at the top Window of this Windows tweaking tool, there is a shortcut option to create a restore point. It is suggested to make a restore point from your Windows drive before making any changes to be able to return your operating system to the previous status if you would like.

All magic of TweakPower is located on the upper left side of the Window and clicking on the hamburger menu (three parallel lines) gives you a lot of options for tweaking your Windows. There are options for cleaning, optimizing Windows, optimizing system, HDD, and etc.

Cleaning

Cleaning section allows you to run default or simple cleanups. Simple cleanup removes all internet traces and history and clears cache and cookies of all browsers you have installed on your PC.

It can also delete junk files from your Windows including: temporary system files, temporary internet files and temporary application data. All these items are optional; you can select/unselect any of them.

The Default cleanup has so many options to choose from. It contains 4 different categories for making a complete cleanup as: Browser cleaner, system cleaner, plugin cleaner and registry cleaner. Clicking on the Settings of each of them opens tons of selections for you.

Browser Cleaner Settings: You can select the following options to be cleaned from all the installed browsers on your PC: compacting database, cookies, download history, internet cache, saved form information, saved passwords and session.
System Cleaner Settings: The following options are selectable to be cleaned: Chkdsk file fragments, empty clipboard, desktop shortcuts, start menu shortcuts, temporary system files, Windows log files, explorer MRUs (most recently used lists to find files, find Computer, printer ports, and streaming data), recent documents, run of start menu, game explorer, MS management console, MS search, Windows error reporting and a very detailed deletion of Windows store history tracks.
Plugin Cleaner Settings: You can remove the following options: advanced history tracks, applications history tracks , internet history tracks, multimedia history tracks and utilities history tracks.
Registry Cleaner Settings: These registry items can be optimized: ActiveX and COM, installed programs, applications paths, startup, system driver, common files, help files, acoustic signals, history lists, fonts, firewall, start menu and file types.

Windows

This section consists of several options: operation, communication, system settings, administration, visual style and privacy settings can be optimized here. Each of the mentioned items have several subitems to be optimized and customized.

Operation:

It has customizable settings for mouse, keyboard, effects and taskbar.

Mouse:

In the mouse section you can switch primary and secondary mouse buttons, change double-click speed, choose your desired pointers, select pointer speed, display pointer trails, hide pointer when typing, show location of the pointer while you press CTRL key and change mouse sensitivity.

Keyboard:

There are options to change cursor width in pixels, change keyboard speed by changing repeat delay and repeat rate and cursor blink rate.

Effects:

You have options to scroll inactive Windows when displayed, active Window tracking, set the level of transparency of taskbar, transparent background when changing programs using ALT + TAB keys, darken the background of the applications switching.

Taskbar:

You can customize different taskbar settings here. You can: change taskbar alignment, change position of the taskbar, adjust the size of the taskbar.

In Navigation area you can select/unselect: show widgets, show active applications, show search, show badgets, show recent searches when pointing to the search symbol, select the far corner of the taskbar to display the desktop, automatically hide the taskbar, show screen keyboard button, activate the snap-assist function flyout and show chats.

In Notification area you can set the duration of notifications (Balloon tip) in addition to the ability to change the size of thumbnails in Thumbnails area.

Communication

In addition to having the option to change and customize many settings of all installed browsers on your PC, there are some options of the network settings.

The security options you can select are: Hiding the computer in the network environment of the computers, enabling administrative shares to allow access to all disks, option to select automatically search networks for shares, enable/disable universal plug and play and synchronizing the time automatically with the internet.

System Settings:

There are so many options to select/unselect in this section to customize system settings of your Windows operating system as below:

Show Window concepts while dragging
Show color transition in title bar
Show mouse pointer shadows
Show selection rectangle with background color
Show icon title with Shadow
Activate transparent Window frames
Always show keyboard navigation indicators
Show tooltips on title bar buttons
Show windows version on desktop
Animate windows when minimizing or maximizing
Smooth scroll list boxes
Animate drop-down list
Automatically hide scroll bars for apps and settings
Fade out menu items after clicking
Show flat menus
Show shadows under menus
Show Open command prompt here in context menu
Show Powershell here in context menu
Show send to in context menu
Show copy to in context menu
Show move to in context menu
Show “encrypt and decrypt in” in context menu
Show compressed ZIP archives as folders
Show compressed CAB archives as folders
Show pop-ups above files and desktop elements
Show content information in popup above folders
Arrange elements of a folder by alphabet or both alphabets and numbers
Show encrypted and compressed elements in a different color
Switch on the transparent view of the selection rectangle
Manage desktop icons
Hide Drives
Show all drive letters before the label
Show all drive letters behind the label
Customize address bar of Windows file explorer

Administration

There are so many options to select/unselect in administration to customize your Windows operating system as below:

Do not load the desktop until the login script has been processed
Show all users on login page when starting
Logon screen background image
Show previous logon activity on Windows welcome screen
Disable disk space warning for all disks
Monitor Cd drives for media changes
Optimize performance of the computer for programs
Optimize performance of the computer for background services
Enable defragment of BOOT files (not recommended)
Enable/disable hibernation
Enable restart of desktop and taskbar for errors
Enable system speaker
Change Registration Name of the computer (Name, company or Product-ID)
So many options and customizations for features, special folders, command line, Windows Powershell, virtual memory and Windows settings
Windows explorer and security settings related to antivirus and firewall
Change Windows update settings like: resetting features updates and pausing updates temporarily

Visual Styler

There are various options to customize your Windows and change how it looks. There are options to:

Assign individual icons to drives and folders.
Replace typical Windows icons with other ones.
Change Windows background image.
Modify the size of desktop icons.
Choose the screen saver and settings of it.
Repair icon cache and symbol cache.
Change themes and visual effects and sounds on the computer.
Decrease/increase the spacing of desktop icons.
Save and restore the current layout of desktop icons.
Enable dark theme and transparency effects

Privacy

There are several options to select/unselect to stop Windows spying on your activities. This issue is more important in Windows 10 and Windows 11 as there are multiple settings to change if you would like to have a more protected and secure computer. The options you can change are as below:

Do not send handwriting samples to Microsoft
Disable handwriting error reporting
Disable Inventory
Do not send writing to Microsoft
Disable experiments through your system
Disable participating in Windows customer experience improvement program
Disable SMS text messages backup to the cloud
Disable biometric login
Prohibit websites from accessing their own language list
Prohibit apps the use of the Advertising ID
Disable advertising via Bluetooth
Disable Occasional App Previews in the Start Menu
Disable sync provider notifications
Disable Windows lock screen displays and links (Windows Spotlight)
Disable Tips, Ads, and Proposals
Disable Custom Experience with Relevant Tips and Recommendations Using Your Diagnostic Data
Hide password button
Disable Step Recording Diagnostics Tracking
Disable Telemetry Prevent Internet Access through Windows Media DRM
Disable Wi-Fi Sense
Disable Windows Defender
Windows Defender – Set SpyNet Membership
Disabling malware infection information
Windows Defender – Turn off file examples to Microsoft
Disable Windows Defender SmartScreen for Apps and Files in Windows 10
Deny apps access to telemetry
Disable app access to user account information
Disable Windows App Launcher Tracking
Disable app access to diagnostic information
Turn off app access to camera
Disable app access to microphone
Turn off app access to notifications
Disable app access to contacts
Disable app access to calendar
Disable app access to call log
Turn off app access to email
Disable App Access to Tasks
Turn off app access to messages
Disable app access to documents
Turn off app access to images
Turn off app access to videos
Deny apps access to SMS / MMS
Disable app access to file system
Applications prohibit running in the background
Disallow app access to uncoupled devices
Deny app access to wireless connections
Turn off App Notifications
Disable app diagnostics
Turn off app access to notifications
Disable app access to radio
Disable app access to Bluetooth sync
Disable app access to Bluetooth
Turn off app access to mobile data
Turn off app access to view
Turn off app access to location access
Disable All Settings Synchronization
Disable the synchronization of the design settings
Disable Web Browser Settings Synchronization
Disable passwords synchronization
Disable voice settings synchronization
Disable synchronization of settings for easy operation
Disable advanced Windows settings synchronization
Reset Cortana
Do not allow positional search and Cortana
Disable Web Search on Windows Desktop Search
Disable Bing Search and Browsing Results Display
Disabling Voice Data Auto Update
Disable search in the cloud
Deactivate assistant ‘Cortana’ for searching in Windows search
Disable Learn – Disable Voice Analytics and Data Collection for Cortana scion and other sensors
Disable Location Features
Disable sensor functions completely
Deactivate script function for locating
Disable location and location sensors
Disable Windows Localization Service
Turn off app access to your geographic location
Disable updates via ‘Peer to Peer’
Disable Speech Recognition and Synthesis Updates
Enable postponing upgrades
Disable vendor apps and custom icons download
Disable device driver update
Disabling Automatic App Updates Through Windows Update
Disable Automatic Windows Updates
Disable Automatic Windows Updates Other Products (eg Microsoft Office)
Remove tips from Windows Spotlight Lock screen
Disable screen lock notifications
Do not display the list of recently opened items in the start menu or the taskbar (jump list)
Disable OneDrive network traffic before login
Disable feedback
Disable Windows Search with Bing
Disabling automatic installation of suggested Windows Store apps
Turn Off Volume License Auditing Telegram Offline Maps
Disable Automatic Map Update Offline Maps
Disabling Unwanted Network Traffic
Remove Windows Contacts from Taskbar
Disable Windows Unwanted Internet Queries
Disable user tracking on the web
Disable checking by websites for saved payment methods
Disable sending site information to improve Microsoft services
Disable usage and crash reporting
Turn off personalization of advertising, search, and messages by sending browsing history to Microsoft
Disable Microsoft Search in Bing suggestions in the address bar
Disable user feedback
Disable AutoFill for Credit Card Information
Disable autofill for addresses
Disable suggestions from local providers
Disable search suggestions
Disable the resolution of navigation errors using a web service
Suggest disabling related pages when a webpage cannot be found
Deactivate network prediction
Disabling Microsoft Defender SmartScreen
Disable Microsoft Edge From Running in The Background

System

In system section you will see options to uninstall programs, change startup applications, create restore point or restore a previously made shadow copy, repair Windows by finding automatic solutions for probably issues, display basic system information about your computer. Showing complete hardware information, control computer power consumption and finally evaluate and increase performance of your computer.

HDD

To diagnose and repair hard disk issues, TweakPower has many different options for you. DiskDoctor checks your hard drive and fixes found errors. You can also run a defragmentation to speed up your HDD.

It can also run a full scan of all files on your computer and find and remove duplicate records to space up your hard disk. It can find broken links that point to an empty file/folder. To split large files into smaller files, you can use TweakPower.

Disk space analyzer finds the files with the largest size and helps you identify and remove them if you would like. It is possible to recover deleted files and folders using this tool in addition to the possibility of encrypting files using AES algorithm.

Tools

To backup and restore your registry entries or to run a defragmentation to speed up your Windows, you can use the Tools section. There is also a shortcut to the event viewer of your Windows that displays a log of application and system messages that can have system errors, information messages, and warnings to have more control over what’s going on your PC.

Optimize

Optimize has so many tweaks to increase performance of the Windows. You will have options to:

Shutdown Windows faster
Shorten waiting time for crashed programs
Optimize windows appearance
Increase speed and performance of computer disks
Optimize your system
SSD optimizations to make it faster

Smart Tunning

It includes three different modes that can be applied with one click. The Default mode which balances performance and power consumption, Economy mode which tries to save battery life by consuming less power and Game Booster mode that uses the most power to bring the highest possible performance to the user. You can choose and change them anytime you would like.