Desktop Maestro 3.0 – What’s New?

• New Plug-in architecture

  Desktop Maestro 3.0 has been re-designed to have a new plug-in framework which means that additional features and tools can be easily incorporated into Desktop Maestro.

• New User Interface – clean & clear design for simple navigation

  The interface in Desktop Maestro 3.0 has been re-designed to provide a clean, clear structure along with easy access to a selection of the most commonly used Windows features and Desktop Maestro’s powerful features and tools. The new interface takes advantage of its latest plug-in technology, allowing for components and tools to be logically categorized and refreshed for easy accessibility. Furthermore, new features can be easily downloaded as soon as they are available via Smart Update.

• Tune-up your services – improve system performance

  By tweaking the Microsoft® Windows® services, the service tuner feature has the ability to improve the performance of your computer and provide better start-up times. This feature changes the preference of non-essential Windows services which can result in fewer system resources being consumed to help your software run more efficiently.

• Tune-up tools – to keep your computer running in tip-top shape

  A selection of useful optimization and management tools have been added to Desktop Maestro 3.0 to assist you in enhancing your system’s performance, stability and maintenance. In addition to the new tools (listed below); Desktop Maestro still offer registry compacting, the system optimizer and enhanced privacy features. The privacy cleaning feature has also been updated to support more third party applications and popular Internet browsers.

  • Manage your Startup – manually control your startup items

    Startup Manager allows you to take control of your system by providing a list of items that have been identified as potentially unnecessary during the start up process. You can quickly and easily examine and manage the list of items set to run when your computer starts up, to improve your startup time.

  • Service Manager – manually control your services

    The Service Manager allows you to control, manage and find Windows services with ease and simplicity. The state of each service is clearly presented, along with the ability to control its behavior (stop, start or pause) to allow manual control over all system services.

  • Uninstall Manager – manage unwanted bloat-ware

    The Uninstall Manager links you directly to the Windows add/remove programs tool. It also includes an added feature which conveniently highlights potentially unnecessary, pre-installed software and other bloat-ware that you may wish to remove, which can further improve system performance.

• Windows Management tools

  Desktop Maestro 3.0 has incorporated a range of some of the most useful and popular Windows management tools in an easily accessible format. You can now access several useful Windows management components in one place at one time to take control of configuring your system simply and quickly. The Windows management tools are grouped into three categories – Computer, Security and System, each with their own set of related tools.

  For example, the Computer category includes access to the Windows tools:

  • Computer management
  • Windows Update
  • System Restore
  • System Properties
  • System Information
  • Control Panel

Desktop Maestro Key Features

Three easy steps to boost your computer performance:

• Scan Your Computer
• Clean Your Computer
• Optimize Your computer

In more detail, Desktop Maestro provides the following features to enhance your computer performance:

Registry Cleaning & Monitoring:

• Safely repairs invalid entries in your Windows Registry

  Over time, invalid entries and orphaned shortcuts can accumulate in the registry and may lead to Windows crashes and error messages. Desktop Maestro can safely clean and repair invalid entries from your registry with a few simple mouse clicks.

• Customizable Scans

  Performs a full scan of your registry and also allows you to customise a scan for selective areas in your registry.

• Highly functional Scan results screen

  The Scan results screen provides full text search capabilities to allow for rapid problem identification using text strings, and expandable and collapsible problem views.

• Automatic Registry backups with each repair

  Desktop Maestro automatically creates a backup of all changes it makes to the registry, allowing you to restore these changes to their original condition, if required.

• Registry Monitoring

  The Registry Monitor assists you in keeping your system free of Windows Registry errors by monitoring your Windows Registry and alerting you when a specified number of changes have been made to key areas of the registry. When alerted, you have the option to run a silent scan. This optional feature can begin monitoring your registry as soon as Windows starts up.

Privacy Protection

• Erase your tracks

  The Privacy Guardian feature of Desktop Maestro cleans traces of online activity, history and other sensitive data. Specifically, it allows selective cleaning of all traces of online activities such as cache, cookies, index.dat and history from a variety of web browsers on your PC. This includes other sensitive data such as the Windows Recycle Bin contents, temporary files and the recent file/URL lists of Microsoft Office Suite. It is also capable of cleaning activity tracks from over 50 other third-party applications, including AOL, ICQ, Windows Media Player and many more.

• Bleach free space

  By bleaching the free space on your hard drive, deleted information is rendered unrecoverable by standard file recovery methods. This ensures complete privacy and security of your data.

System Optimizer:

The system optimizer feature in Desktop Maestro offers a range of performance enhancing tools, such as:

• Optimization:

  Within the Optimization area, Desktop Maestro provides the following tools to enhance your system:

  • Registry Compacting:

    For optimized system performance, Desktop Maestro’s registry compacting feature analyzes, rebuilds and compresses the Windows Registry by removing registry gaps and free space, and corrupt keys.

  • Defragmentation:

    Desktop Maestro provides a streamlined interface to the Windows Disk Defragmenter which will optimize the files on your disk for faster file access and improve overall system performance.

  • Optimize your system:

    The “optimize your system” button implements a system-wide optimization function which, at the click of a button, applies a set of tweaks and patches directly into the Windows Registry that are designed to improve system performance. The system optimizer also includes boot file defragmentation and rebuilding, and sorts and refreshes the Windows Start Menu items list, all of which are designed to improve the efficiency and speed at which Windows starts up.

• System monitors and other information:

  Within the system optimizer, Desktop Maestro provides a simple interface to view useful system information such as the Windows Process Manager – which displays a list of running processes; CPU usage, activity and priority. There is also a performance and drive monitor that allows you to easily view the total free CPU and MEM available, along with a complete list of system information such as Computer Name, User Name, Operating System, CPU Speed, RAM, Number of Processors, Printer locations etc.