Ace Utilities 5.2.5

Safe, Easy, Fast and Effective!

Each utility in the Ace Utilities is described below...

ScreenshotRemove Junk Files Junk files are created by
almost all of the Windows applications you use. In an ideal case,
such files are deleted by the program that created them in the first
place. But, the converse is what happens often. These files can
have a temporary existence where the parent program, which
created the file, would delete them upon exiting, or a permanent
existence due to unexpected termination of the parent program, an
error in the program, a system crash, etc.

The point to be noted here is that such files left behind will
reside in your hard disk and accumulate over time unless you
manually find and remove them. Some of the results of having a
substantial amount of such junk files are dramatic reduction in system
performance, consumption of hard disk space (sometimes up to
hundreds of megabytes), system crashes etc.

"Remove Junk Files" tool can spot out these miscreant files and
help you get rid of them very fast and effectively.

Benefits: Regain disk
space. Applications load and run fast when more disk
space is available. Windows will boot faster.
Windows Explorer's performance will get better. File
search speeds increase. Features:
This utility helps you clean unwanted temporary and obsolete files from
your disks and regains disk space. You will be left with a
cleaner drive. Safe: Disk Cleaner uses a
built-in 'ignore list', and will exclude many important
files from being deleted. You can also add your own file types to the
ignore list easily, and they will be excluded from the
cleaning process. The reason why each file is not needed
will be shown by the cleaner unlike other disk cleaners
that blindly clean files. From the list of files, advanced
users can open/explore any file and confirm whether the
file is a junk one or not. Optionally cleans 'zero length'
files, temporary internet files, etc. Allows important
folders you wish to be excluded from scanning altogether.
Can use wild cards. Option to delete files to the recycle
bin, permanently delete or backup to a folder of your
choice. Fast - don't waste too much time; powerful - can be
customized to find your own junk file types.
ScreenshotClean system Registry The Registry, the
central hierarchical database used in the Microsoft Windows, is used to
store information necessary to configure the PC for one or more
users, applications and hardware devices.

The Registry contains information that Windows continually
references during operations such as setting profiles for each
user, details about the applications installed on your computer and
the types of documents that an application can create, what all
hardware exists in the system, the ports that are being used,
etc.

Over time, Windows Registry
begins to bloat with data that are invalid and obsolete. Such
invalid data eventually accumulate in the Registry slowing down the
Windows, whereby compromising PC performance and causing other
problems.

Benefits:
Windows boots up quickly.
Applications load and run faster. Have
a cleaner Windows system.
Minimize application crash.
Features: The fastest, safest and
best tool in it class to clean and fix registry errors, and
finds more errors than almost all the other registry cleaners.
Safe: Built-in 'ignore list' to protect
many important registry entries. Expert users can add their
own entries to the ignore list so that those entries will
be exempted from being scanned in the future.
Thoroughly scans and cleans all parts of the registry.
Allows you to 'undo' a cleaning
operation at a later time, if you want.
Expert / normal mode of registry cleaning.
Shows you the reason why each entry detected is
invalid unlike other registry cleaning software.
Advanced: Intelligent:
Auto decides whether to delete either the entire registry sub-key or
just the entry. Expert
users can view the registry entries ignored in Windows Registry
editor (Regedit), and delete them if needed.
Scan and clean invalid ActiveX/COM
entries, application paths, add-remove software, start menu
order, shared dll section, font section, help section, IE
context menu, IE toolbar, file extensions, browser helper objects
(BHO), obsolete software and more from the registry.
Intelligent: Certain keys that are
absolutely invalid are not allowed to be added accidentally
to the exclude list.


ScreenshotFind Duplicate Files Duplicate files can appear on your
system for a number of reasons, and can have a number of
detrimental results aside from wasting hard drive space. Various
applications may install the same files at different locations on
your system, or you may copy or download the same files into
different folders on your system without knowing it. Sometimes the only
result of this is wasted hard drive space, but many times
different copies of the same vital system file can cause havoc.


"Find Duplicate Files" tool can easily find and remove duplicates of the same file.

Benefits: Find true duplicate files
in your disks and regain disk space by removing them.
Avoid problems due to duplicate files.

Features: Safe: Uses a built-in
'ignore list', and will exclude many important files from
being scanned. You can also add your own files to the
'ignore list' easily, and they will not be found again.
This prevents important files like DLLs, windows system
files from being listed as duplicate and getting deleted accidentally.
Find duplicate files based on criteria : filename, size,
contents, etc. Can find either specific types of
duplicates like *.mp3, *.mpeg, etc (can be customized), or
all types of files. Fastest among such duplicate file
finding tools, user friendly and easy to configure.
Can optionally ignore files below certain size to find
space-consuming larger files. Can find duplicate files
across different drives. Can find duplicates from a
selected set of folders (i.e., not from a whole drive).
Allows important folders you wish to be excluded from
scanning altogether. Can use wild cards.
Can find true duplicate files: files which are truly identical.

ScreenshotAuto-Start Manager Most
Windows users are used to the fact that after installing a large number
of software applications, their computer usually slows down
considerably. One of the main reasons for this problem is that
many applications install background processes that are automatically
started when you start your computer. Those background processes
increase the boot time and consume valuable resources. Some of
the background processes may show up in your 'system tray' as small
icons, while others are completely invisible. Not all background
processes are bad, of course. Some, like anti-virus programs and
system utilities, are needed to keep your system running
smoothly, but many of the background processes are often not necessary
at all and only make your system run slower.

"Auto-Start Manager" allows you to manage all such applications
which start automatically. This tool can organize programs that
run automatically using the Registry, the 'Startup' folder in the
Start menu and the 'Win.ini' file.


Benefits: Security: Prevent spyware /
trojan / virus and other malicious programs from running.
Windows loads significantly faster.
When the number of startup programs are
controlled, other programs get more system resources and
hence their performance will increase
Features: AutoStart Manager can be used to
manage the programs, services, processes, etc that start
automatically when Windows boots.
You can either disable or enable programs that run at windows
startup. Helps you remove
unwanted programs permanently. Scans the
system registry, startup folder and win.ini sections.
Allows you to add a new program to start automatically or
edit an existing program's properties.
Get detailed information of the programs in the startup
list. Warns you when previously disabled
programs get enabled again. Verify that
spyware/trojan/virus and other malicious programs are not
in the list. We can also help you optimize the list if you
can send the report of the programs to us (for registered users
only). We will provide our opinion.


ScreenshotErase Your History Your Windows
operating system keeps tracks of many things that you do with your
computer, like the websites you visit using Internet browsers ,
the pictures you view using image viewers, the movies you watch
using Media player etc. Likewise, many of the third-party applications
that you use keep a list of the 'most recently used' files.


Owing to the fact that such information
is stored at different places by different programs, it is
impossible, or rather tedious and time-consuming, to maintain your
privacy by manually searching for such entries and eliminating
them.

"Erase History" tool makes
the job much easier by taking care of everything at the click of a
button: freeing up wasted hard-drive space and getting rid of your
past activity records from the PC.


Benefits: Maintain privacy.
Clear your PC usage history without letting any one else
discover it. Regain disk space.
Internet usage history can be
cleaned; ideal when multiple users use the same computer.
Clean the list of sites visited, files downloaded, etc.
Speed up computer, Internet Explorer, etc.
Security. Features:
Erase encrypted and hidden cache
(temporary internet files). Clean
history and typed address-bar URLs of popular browsers like
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, etc.
Erase auto-complete data of Internet explorer
form-fields. Delete cookies
selectively. Important cookies can be excluded.
Delete index.dat files which are locked by windows.
These files are very difficult to be deleted manually.
Clear history of over 200 third
party applications like Media Player, Opera, WinZip, MS
Office, AOL, Messengers, Netscape, Kazaa, Morpheus, etc
using plug-ins. The recent document/usage history stored within these
applications are cleaned. Erase
Outlook Express's deleted emails that never get deleted
promptly. Erase start menu
history which is encrypted and hidden by windows.
All Recent Document history of Windows from start
menu, open/save dialog boxes, disk, Start menu find
history, run history, etc.. And much
more.

ScreenshotFix
Invalid Shortcuts Shortcuts are links to files stored in
different folders and drives on your PC. The Windows Start Menu
is made of shortcuts pointing to various files elsewhere on your hard
drive. These shortcuts, when run, opens its corresponding
application or document. Many a time, the 'targets' of these
shortcuts are moved or deleted, leaving the shortcut pointing to a file
or location that no longer exists. Such 'dead' shortcuts clutter
your Start Menu and Desktop.

"Fix
Invalid Shortcuts" tool provides you with an easy and convenient way to
address these invalid shortcuts. It scans your system, finds all
the invalid shortcuts and reports back to you so that you can
remove it from your system.


ScreenshotSecurely Delete Files The standard Windows Recycle Bin
allows you to delete files and folders, presumably removing them
from prying eyes. However, unbeknownst to most of us, there are many
ways to retrieve and view files and folders which have been
removed in this manner – even months after they have been
deleted. The reason items can be so easily retrieved intact even long
after being supposedly deleted is because Windows does not
actually erase the physical data on your drive that makes up the
item: it only marks the very first byte of it as 'available space' so
that the operating system can use it if necessary. With simple,
and in most cases free, software anyone can view a list of all of
the files, folders, pictures, and documents you have attempted
to delete recently, as well as easily restore and view them. This is
where "Securely Delete Files" tool come in handy.

ScreenshotUninstall Manager You just can't trust those
installation programs. Sure, they'll copy a new application's
essential files to the hard disk, but they'll also add files to existing
directories, modify the Registry, and generally litter the disk.
Uninstall Manager lets you safely remove all unwanted files and
return your system to its original state. This utility can be used to
uninstall applications easily and quickly than the 'add/remove'
control panel applet. This tool lists entries usually with
reference to a physical uninstallation file located somewhere on
your system.

Sometimes, by either
manually deleting applications or from untidy uninstallation, the file
that these entries refer may no longer exist and this results in
an error when the corresponding entry is tried to uninstall. It
is impossible to remove these orphaned entries manually. Using
this tool, you can easily remove these invalid entries.

ScreenshotFind Empty Folders "Find Empty Folders" tool
can be used to find the empty folders in your hard drive.

ScreenshotDisk Analysis "Disk Analysis" tool shows the
disk usage of your drives. Use it when your hard disk is almost
full, and you don't know where the big files are residing, what all
files occupy how much space, etc. They may well be hidden in
sub-sub-directories.


ScreenshotScheduled System Maintenance "Scheduled System
Maintenance" tool can be used to schedule a cleaning operation with the
help of Windows 'Task Scheduler'.


ScreenshotWipe Deleted File Data Many computer users are
unaware that deleted files can be recovered or undeleted and can yield
information which can be used against the person who deleted
them. This information can be as common as a deleted email
message or as important as sensitive business records. Most people
assume that if a file doesn't show up in a folder, it's gone forever.
Few people know that deleted files are not erased; the data is
just hidden, and the files can be undeleted.

Wiping a disk's free space ensures any such data currently
stored will be destroyed. Save all documents and close all
running programs that may write to the disk, before using this
tool.

ScreenshotMaintenance Wizard
"Maintenance Wizard" is a tool that conveniently consolidates several
of Ace Utilities' features into one collective interface for
quick access and operation. Quick-Cleanup will allow you to
easily run a variety of system maintenance procedures on your PC in just
a few easy steps.
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