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1 Clean & Speed Up Windows with AWO C 400 / 1 Manage Windows with this Powerful Collection of System Tools Every version of Windows comes with at least a few programs for managing different aspects of your system. However, these only cover the basics, and they aren t always easy to find (assuming you know they exist at all!). In this article, I ll introduce you to a powerful program named Advanced Windows Optimizer (AWO) which gathers a large collection of useful tools into a single friendly window. By Don Levison How To Install Advanced Windows Optimizer... Delete Unnecessary Files with Disk Cleaner... Clear Out Old Websites and More with History Cleaner... Remove Invalid Shortcuts with the Shortcuts Fixer... How To Undo Changes using AWO s Rescue Feature... This article shows:... How to install Advanced Windows Optimizer... How to use the different tools included in AWO Windows XP/2000/Me/98/95 C 400 / 3 C 400 / 6 C 400 / 9 C 400 / 10 C 400 / 16 You can install Advanced Windows Optimizer from the Update 3/08 CD-ROM in the Update Software section 19

2 C 400 / 2 System tools are for managing your system itself AWO provides 20 system tools A Rescue feature lets you undo changes What is Advanced Windows Optimizer? Advanced Windows Optimizer is a collection of system tools, and that s a term that needs a little explanation. A system tool (or system utility) is a program used for managing different aspects of your computer, your files and Windows. A good example of a system tool is the Disk Defragmenter program we covered in your PC Knowledge for Seniors main manual in article P100 PC Maintenance: Keep Your PC Running Smoothly. Disk Defragmenter tunes up your hard disk to keep it working as quickly as possible: it doesn t allow you to create anything or provide any sort of entertainment, it just does that one essential system-management job. Along with Disk Defragmenter, Windows includes a few other system tools. Which ones, and where you find them, varies from one version of Windows to another, but they have one thing in common: they tend to handle only the basics. Advanced Windows Optimizer (or AWO ) is a program that provides 20 different system tools in a single package. These tools help you carry out a wide range of tasks such as clearing out your Internet history details, finding duplicate copies of files, deleting files securely to prevent them from being recovered, cleaning up the Windows Registry to remove unnecessary entries, and finding and removing files that are wasting space on your hard disk. That s just a quick taste of what AWO has to offer I ll explain its most useful tools in more detail later in this article. Apart from the tools themselves, there are several other features that make AWO friendlier than most other system 20

3 C 400 / 3 programs: everything is available from one attractive window, and each tool does a more comprehensive job than its Windows counterpart (if it has one). Best of all, some tools have a useful Rescue option which you can use to reverse any changes you made if they seem to have caused problems. How To Install Advanced Windows Optimizer You can install a trial version of AWO straight from your update 3/08 CD-ROM. AWO is a shareware program, which means that you can use it free-ofcharge for up to 30 days. If you decide you like it and would like to keep using it, you ll find a Buy button in the program which you can click to pay for the program at the AWO website. You can do this at any time during or after the 30-day trial. Alternatively, if you decide you re not keen on AWO, you can also uninstall it at any time. Advanced Windows Optimizer can be used with any version of Windows apart from Windows Vista. If you use Vista, you unfortunately won t be able to use the version of AWO included on the CD-ROM. However, at the time of writing, a new version for Vista was said to be in the pipeline, so it s worth paying a visit to the company s website at to check whether the new version is available. In the steps below, I ll explain how to install AWO. Of course, if you d prefer to read more about the program first and decide whether you d find it useful, feel free to skip ahead! If you d like to install AWO, follow these steps: 1. Insert your Update 3/08 CD in your computer s CD-ROM drive. 21

4 C 400 / 4 2. Click Update Software, then Advanced Windows Optimizer (AWO), and then click the blue text that says Click here to install Advanced Windows Optimizer. 3. The setup process is very straightforward: just click the Next button at the bottom of the window to move from step to step you don t need to change anything along the way. 4. After clicking Next a few times, you ll reach a step in which the Next button says Install. Click Install and AWO will be installed, which takes only a few seconds. 5. Now you ll reach the final step, pictured in the following screenshot. Here you can choose whether to start AWO straight away: if you d prefer not to, remove the tick beside Launch Advanced Windows Optimizer. 6. Finally, click Finish. Remove this tick if you d prefer not to start AWO yet Click Finish 22

5 C 400 / 5 Finding Your Way Around the AWO Window If you ve just installed Advanced Windows Optimizer, and you left a tick in the box in step 5 above, you can already see the AWO window. Whenever you want to start AWO in future, you ll find it on your Start menu: then just go to Start > All Programs (or Programs) > Advanced Windows Optimizer and click the item that says Advanced Windows Optimizer. If you decide you don t want to keep AWO, you can also easily uninstall it from your computer via the Start menu. Just click the item that says Uninstall Advanced Windows Optimizer. The AWO window is neat and easy to understand, as you can see from the next screenshot. At the left you ll see a column of six buttons. Each of these buttons leads to a different category of tools: just click a button to see the tools in that category. On the right you ll see the buttons for each tool in the category you selected, containing the name of the tool and a brief description of what it does. To use one of the tools, just click its button. How to start Advanced Windows Optimizer Click a category to see the tools it contains Each button starts a different tool 23

6 C 400 / 6 How To Use Advanced Windows Optimizer s Tools Each tool you use opens in its own window, and because every tool does a different job, those windows all look a little different and work in different ways. Over the next few pages I ll explain how to use the most useful of AWO s tools. As some tools are rather unusual, or intended only for advanced users, I ll skip those for now and give you shorter explanations of them at the end of this article. Remove unwanted files that clutter your hard disk Delete Unnecessary Files with Disk Cleaner The Disk Cleaner tool in the System Cleaners category does a similar job to the Disk Cleanup program included with most versions of Windows: it scours your hard disk looking for unnecessary files and offers to delete them for you automatically, removing the clutter from your disk. These include temporary files created by programs you use, which should be deleted when the program has finished with them but are often left behind, as well as shortcuts to files that no longer exist. Unlike its Windows counterpart, the Disk Cleaner can also keep compressed copies of the files it clears out for extra safety, allowing you to put them back if necessary. To use Disk Cleaner, follow these steps: 1. Select the System Cleaners category button on the left, and then click AWO Disk Cleaner on the right. 24

7 C 400 / 7 2. If you d like Disk Cleaner to keep safety copies of anything it removes, click Options at the top of the window, select the Cleaning Options tab, then tick the box beside Create Restore Point and click OK. 3. Click the Next button twice, and Disk Cleaner will scan your system for unnecessary files. 4. Next you ll see a list of the junk files found, as shown in the next screenshot. If you feel that any of these should be kept, which is unlikely, you can remove the ticks beside them to tell Disk Cleaner not to remove them. The ticked files in the list will be removed to recover wasted space 5. Click Next twice more, and Disk Cleaner will remove the ticked files. In the final step, you ll see a note of how much space was available on your hard disk, and how much is available with those unnecessary files removed. Click Finish to close the Disk Cleaner window. See how much wasted space has been recovered 25

8 C 400 / 8 Programs leave a lot of obsolete information in the Registry Remove Invalid Entries from the Registry The Registry is an area of Windows where details of your entire system are stored: its hardware, software, and Windows itself. Over time, the Registry grows as you install, uninstall and use programs on your PC. Well-behaved programs should look after your Registry, removing entries they no longer need and, most importantly, removing all their entries if you uninstall the program. Unfortunately, such programs tend to be the exception rather than the rule, which means that Windows has to load and manage a Registry that s much larger than it needs to be. A Registry clean-up helps to speedup your PC and can also prevent errors caused by Windows reading entries that relate to programs you ve uninstalled. AWO s Registry Cleaner provides a safe way to remove these invalid entries, keeping a note of every entry it removes so that you can undo the changes if you need to. To use the Registry Cleaner, follow these steps: 1. Select the System Cleaners category button on the left, and then click AWO Registry Cleaner. 2. Click the Options button at the top of the window and make sure there s a tick beside Create Restore Point then click OK. 3. Click the Next button twice and Registry Cleaner will begin scanning your Registry for unnecessary entries. When the scan completes, you ll see a list of the entries to be removed. 26

9 C 400 / 9 4. Click Next twice more, and the unnecessary entries will be removed from the Registry. 5. Finally, click Finish. Don t be surprised to see hundreds of unnecessary entries in Registry Cleaner s list in step 3. Program writers know that very few of us ever look at the Registry s contents, so they often have a cavalier attitude to cleaning up after themselves. Clear Out Old Websites and More with History Cleaner Windows and Internet Explorer both collect and store a great deal of information about the files you use, websites you visit, web addresses you type, the text you type into forms on web pages, and much more. Windows itself provides various methods of removing all this information, but it s scattered around in different places and between different programs. The History Cleaner in Advanced Windows Optimizer can remove all these history details in one go. It s also very straightforward to use. Start the AWO History Cleaner tool from the System Cleaners category, and you ll see a list of the different types of history you can remove, as shown in the next screenshot. The most typical items are ticked for you already, although you can remove ticks beside anything you don t want cleared. Lower down, you ll find other items you can tick if you want to, such as removing the lists of files you ve used recently in Microsoft Office programs or Windows Media Player. Several programs store lengthy history details Choose which history items to clear 27

10 C 400 / 10 Tick the history items you want to clear out Click this button to delete the ticked items After ticking or unticking the required items, click Wash My Computer Now. Another little window will open showing you the progress of the clean-up. When it completes, click Finish. Below the words Space recovered at the left of the window, you ll see how much extra space was gained by removing these files. Click Close to close the window. Most systems contain a number of obsolete shortcuts Remove Invalid Shortcuts with the Shortcuts Fixer Shortcuts are tiny files that act as pointers to a real file somewhere on your hard disk. Most of the items on your Start menu and desktop are shortcuts, for example, but Windows quietly creates shortcuts in all sorts of other places as well. Many of these shortcuts can point to files that no longer exist, perhaps because you ve renamed or deleted the file since the shortcut was created, or uninstalled the program that the shortcut points to. 28

11 C 400 / 11 The Shortcuts Fixer tool scans your computer for these invalid shortcuts shortcuts that are simply wasting space and enables you to remove them all in one quick operation. To use the Shortcuts Fixer, follow these steps: 1. Select the System Optimizers category on the left and click the AWO Shortcuts Fixer tool. 2. Click the Next button twice, and the program will scan your PC for invalid shortcuts. Any it finds will then be shown in a list, as in the next screenshot. 3. Invalid shortcuts are easy to deal with, because they can all be safely removed. Click the Select All button to place ticks beside every item in the list, and then click Clean All. 4. A message will ask whether you want to move the shortcuts to the Recycle Bin. Click Yes and the shortcuts will be deleted. (Rather oddly, they are all moved to the Recycle Bin, allowing you to recover them if you want to, but you re not likely to want a non-working shortcut back!) Click Select All to tick all the shortcuts found Click Clean All to remove the invalid shortcuts 5. Finally, click Cancel to close the Shortcuts Fixer window. 29

12 C 400 / 12 A process is a program that s currently running There are more programs running than you re aware of! Check the Programs Running on Your PC with Process Manager Process Manager is different from most of the other AWO tools in that its purpose is just to display information. The information consists of a list of all the programs running on your computer. (A process is just a technical term for a program that s currently running, which is where Process Manager gets its name.) You may be surprised at how many programs are running while you go about your day-to-day computing. Along with the programs you know you re using, there may be another dozen or more that you re not aware of at all. Many of these belong to Windows itself, and are the vital programs that keep Windows running, while others may only appear as little icons alongside the clock in the taskbar. To see this list of running programs, choose the System Tools category and click AWO Process Manager. The window looks dauntingly technical on first sight, but it s really just a list of the programs that are running. You ll see the name of each program in the left column, and the folder in which the program is stored in the next column you can ignore everything else. These columns list all the programs currently running on your PC 30

13 C 400 / 13 It may be mildly interesting to see how many programs are running behind the scenes, but Process Manager has a more important use. If you suspect that your computer has been infected by spyware, or that there may be unnecessary or unwanted programs running, you can check through this list to find out exactly what all these programs are. Just right-click any program in the list and choose About this process. The window that appears contains full details of the program, including a description of what it is and the company that produced it. This may not give you enough information, but there s one more option available: click the Google it! button at the bottom of the window, and you ll be whisked straight to the Google search engine where you ll see a list of web pages providing more information about the program. Delete Unwanted Files Securely Using the File Shredder You re probably aware that when you delete a file, it isn t actually deleted at all: instead it goes into the Recycle Bin, from where you can recover it later if you need to. It s only when you empty the Recycle Bin (or open it and delete individual files from it) that those files are really deleted. In fact, though, even at this point the files are not actually deleted. You no longer see any sign of them anywhere on your computer, but they are still stored on your hard disk. They remain there until you create or install more files and your hard disk puts them in the space that was occupied by your old deleted files. The complex workings of hard disks mean that this may You can check what these programs are Deleted files may remain on your hard disk for months... 31

14 C 400 / and could still be recovered and opened You can shred files to completely destroy them happen within minutes or hours, or it may take much longer. It s common to find that a hard disk still contains files that were supposedly deleted months or even years earlier! There are software programs that can be used to scan the hard disk looking for deleted files, present them in a list, and allow the user to recover them. This kind of program can be useful if you delete a file accidentally. On the other hand, however, if you delete a file containing sensitive information, you might prefer to ensure that it really has been removed from the hard disk, so that no-one else who uses your PC now or in the future could find and recover it. AWO s File Shredder allows you to delete a file in a secure way that makes it impossible to read if anyone were able to recover it. (This is the equivalent of putting a real document through a paper shredder, hence the name of this tool.) You can shred individual files or whole folders full of files; you can also shred the contents of your Recycle Bin rather than simply emptying it. Here s how to use the File Shredder: 1. Choose the File Tools category and click AWO File Shredder. 2. Click Files to shred one or more files, Folders to shred everything in a certain folder, or Recycle Bin to shred the contents of your Recycle Bin. 32

15 C 400 / 15 Remember that shredding files really is permanent: there is no way to recover them afterwards! For this reason, make absolutely sure that you really do want to delete any files you select, or that there s nothing in your Recycle Bin you want to keep if you re choosing the Recycle Bin option. If you choose the Folders option, bear in mind that everything in the folder you choose (and in any folders inside that one) will be shredded: make absolutely sure there are no files among the folder s contents that should be kept! 3. The next step depends on which option you chose in step 2: Files: click the Add button to select a file you want to shred. (You can do this repeatedly if you want to shred a number of files.) If you add a wrong file by mistake, select it and click Remove. Folders: click the Add button to select a folder you want to shred. (As with files, above, you can do this repeatedly if there are several folders you want to shred.) If you choose the wrong folder by mistake, select it and click Remove. Recycle Bin: click the Refresh button to load the list of files in the Recycle Bin. If there are any files in the list you don t want to shred, select them and click Remove to remove them from the list and they will be left in the Bin. 4. If you re sure that you really do want to shred the files and/or folders shown in the list, click Delete All. A message box will ask you if you re sure about shredding the items you ve chosen: if you are, click OK. Choose what to shred 33

16 C 400 / 16 Undo changes made using AWO s tools How To Undo Changes Using AWO s Rescue Feature Several of Advanced Windows Optimizer s tools delete files or Registry entries from your computer, and there s a small chance that something will be deleted that should have been kept. This is very rare, since AWO specifically looks for unnecessary items only, but AWO provides a Rescue feature in case it does happen. When using the Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner or Duplicate File Finder tools, you can tick a box labelled Create Restore Point and AWO will keep a copy of everything it removes. If you have problems with your PC after using one of these tools, or a file has been deleted that you need to replace, you can use the Rescue feature by following these steps: 1. Start Advanced Windows Optimizer and launch the tool you were using. 2. At the top of the tool s window, click the Rescue button pictured below: 3. Now you ll see the dialog pictured in the next screenshot. This lists all the dates and times when you used the tool, and you can undo the changes made on any of these dates. 4. Select the item whose changes you want to undo, and then click Restore. AWO will put back the files or Registry entries that were removed on that date. 34

17 C 400 / 17 Select the date of the changes you want to undo Click Restore This Rescue feature is a useful safety net that s well worth using, but these safety copies also use a little space on your hard disk, especially those made by the Disk Cleaner tool. To regain this space, you can delete older safety copies when you know they won t be needed: follow the first three steps above, then select one of the safety copies in the list and click the Delete button to remove it. A Quick Look at Other AWO Tools We ve looked at six of Advanced Windows Optimizer s most useful tools on the previous pages, so let s finish with a quickfire explanation of some of the other tools AWO offers: Duplicate File Finder: this tool scans your hard disk looking for duplicated files (files of which you have two or more copies). You can then choose which copy to keep and which to delete. Be sure to tick the Create Restore Point box in case you want to retrieve one of these files later using the Rescue feature. Find unnecessary copies of files 35

18 C 400 / 18 Choose which programs run when Windows starts Split large files into smaller pieces Startup Cleaner: this tool displays a list of the programs that run automatically each time Windows starts. You can prevent a program from running by removing the tick from the box beside it. To undo the change, just return to this tool and tick the item again. System Information: although rather technical, this tool provides incredibly detailed information covering every aspect of your computer. Registry Backup: allows you to create backup copies of the all-important Registry, and to replace the existing Registry with one of those backups if disaster strikes. File Splitter: this unusual tools lets you split a large file into several smaller pieces. This can be useful to fit a file on to a floppy disk, for example, which can hold only relatively small files. Just split the file into pieces small enough to fit, place each on a separate floppy disk, and they can be joined together again later using a tiny program named MergeFiles which this tool creates for you when it splits a file. EXE Protector: this is another unusual tool that lets you set a password for programs, preventing anyone else who uses your PC from running those programs. (An EXE or executable file is another term for a program.) Select the program you want to protect, type a password, and every time you try to run that program you ll be prompted to enter the password you chose. Of course, the same tool also allows you to remove the password just as easily. 36

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