Manual - Bodrag
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Manual - Bodrag
Bodrag Utilities 2009 Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Bodrag Utilities 2009 Optimize your computer and fix system errors. by BODRAG Contents I Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part I Introduction 2 1 Main interface ................................................................................................................................... 3 2 Online ................................................................................................................................... Update 6 Part II Overview 1 One Click ................................................................................................................................... Optimization Part III Optimization 12 12 16 1 System ................................................................................................................................... Optimizer 16 2 Memory ................................................................................................................................... Optimizer 19 3 Internet ................................................................................................................................... Optimizer 22 4 Registry ................................................................................................................................... Defragmenter 25 Part IV Clean 29 1 Disk Cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 29 2 Registry ................................................................................................................................... Cleaner 35 3 Shredder ................................................................................................................................... 42 4 Disk Wipe ................................................................................................................................... 49 Part V Protection 55 1 Startup ................................................................................................................................... Security 55 2 Computer ................................................................................................................................... Security 57 3 EXE Protector ................................................................................................................................... 63 4 Spyware ................................................................................................................................... Protector 68 5 Registry ................................................................................................................................... Backup 70 Part VI Fix & Repair 73 1 Process ................................................................................................................................... Manager 73 2 Startup ................................................................................................................................... Manager 77 3 Service ................................................................................................................................... Manager 79 4 Uninstaller ................................................................................................................................... 81 Part VII Other Tools 84 1 System ................................................................................................................................... Information 84 2 Windows ................................................................................................................................... Styler 85 3 Wallpaper ................................................................................................................................... Changer 88 4 Auto Shutdown ................................................................................................................................... 90 Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. I II Bodrag Utilities 2009 5 Tweaker ................................................................................................................................... 92 Part VIII License 95 Part IX Support 0 Index 98 Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Part I 2 1 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Introduction Bodrag Utilities 2009 offers you 23 great tools for your Windows XP and Vista. Optimize your Windows, clean up your Windows registry or manage your installed applications, get ride of Windows errors and problems and speed up your computer performance, these are just a few benefits that you receive using Bodrag Utilities 2009. Bodrag Utilities 2009 suite include: · One Click Optimization - Optimize Windows with a single mouse click · System Optimizer - Optimizes your computer for better speed · Memory Optimizer - Optimizes your RAM utilization · Internet Optimizer - Optimizes your Internet connection · Registry Defragmenter - Optimizes your registry by defragmenting · Windows Disk Defragmenter - Optimize your hard disk performance · Disk Cleaner - Removes unnecessary files and creates more space · Registry Cleaner - Removes invalid registry entries · Shredder - Secure erase files and folders · Disk Wipe - Secure erase free space on your hard disk · Startup Security - Monitors all applications which start with Windows · Computer Security - Protects your online privacy · EXE Protector - Password protection for your executable files · Spyware Protector - Protect your computer against mallware products installation Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Introduction · · · · · · · · · · 3 Registry Backup - Created backup of Registry files for the Recovery Process Manager - Manages your current running applications Startup Manager - Manages the list of applications which start with Windows Service Manager - Manages the list of installed Windows services Uninstaller - Manages your installed applications System Information - Displays extended information about your system and hardware Windows Styler - Customize your Windows interface Wallpaper Changer - Changes your desktop wallpaper automatically Auto Shutdown - Schedule when your computer must shut down Tweaker - Customize your Windows settings For all tools, you will have in the top right corner a help button with a small arrow in the right. Clicking on Help it will show the help section for that application. If you click on the arrow you will see a popup menu: Help - will launch the help section for current application Register now - will display a new window to register and activate your application. This will be visible only on unregistered application. Buy now - will open the order page for Bodrag Utilities 2009 on your default browser. This will be visible only on unregistered application. About - will display a new window with details about your version of Bodrag Utilities 2009. 1.1 Main interface Bodrag Utilities 2009 main interface is the control center of all suite applications. Here you will find details about last run of them, change global settings and launch individual tools. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 4 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Main interface is structured on six categories from which you can start tools. To change the global settings, click on the down arrow from the right of the Help button. A popup menu will appear and click on Settings. The global settings window contain two tabs. General Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Introduction 5 Here you can choose the language for the interface of Bodrag Utilities 2009 suite. Also you can select which applications should be launched when Windows starts. If you want to disable the news window, displayed when you start tools, unselect Show news window on application startup. One Click Optimization Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 6 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Here you can choose which scans should be made by One Click Optimization application. Also you can change or disable the automated scans of One Click Optimization application. 1.2 Online Update First time when you start an application from Bodrag Utilities 2009 you will be asked if you want to check for updates. Updates are free and can bring to you a new version with bug fixes or new features. You can choose to check in that moment or you can select to be asked later. Also you can check for updates directly form the Bodrag Utilities 2009 interface. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Introduction When you choose to check for updates, Online Update application will start: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 7 8 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Click Next to start looking for available updates. If an update is available you will be prompted with details about it. To start downloading it click Download button. If you don't want to make this update click Close to close Online Update. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Introduction Here you can see the progress of the update download. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 9 10 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now update is downloaded and is ready to install. Click Install button in order to start installation or Close to cancel installation and close Online Update. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Part II 12 2 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Overview In this category you will find the automated tool from Bodrag Utilities 2009 designed to optimize Windows XP and Vista. This category tools is: · One Click Optimization 2.1 One Click Optimization One Click Optimization is a tool that allows you to quickly and easily clean up your registry and hard drive. It can make automated and manual scans of your system To start One Click Optimization, go into the Overview category and click One Click Optimization: Immediately after you start it, One Click Optimization will start the scan of your system. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Overview 13 After scan is complete you will see a summary of found errors. You can manually select which errors should be fixed by clicking on the red label. This option is available for dangerous startup entries, registry problems and junk files. To start fixing these problems click Fix errors. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 14 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now cleaning is done and you can close One Click Optimization by clicking Close. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Part III 16 3 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Optimization In this category you will find all the tools from Bodrag Utilities 2009 designed to optimize Windows XP and Vista. This makes your system more efficient. This category tools are: · System Optimizer · Memory Optimizer · Internet Optimizer · Registry Defragmenter · Windows Disk Defragmenter 3.1 System Optimizer Would you like to optimize your system for application needs? Then use System Optimizer from Bodrag Utilities 2009. With a few clicks you can optimize your system and increase performance. To start System Optimizer, go into the Optimization category and click System Optimizer: Select the system to match your system configuration. In the visual effects selection box, select visual effects the desired setting. Then click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Optimization 17 System Optimizer will check your computer and show you needed changes. You can select changes that you want or don't want to apply by clicking on the red text. Click Next to start optimization. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 18 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Select settings that you want to apply and click OK. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Optimization 19 Your system is optimized now, according to your predefined settings. 3.2 Memory Optimizer RAM is an essential factor in the performance of your system. The more RAM available, the better you can use your system and your applications. Due to frequent starting and stopping of various applications, during a computer session, the memory is consumed more and more, because some of the applications and components are not removed from the RAM if they are terminated. These components are left in the RAM memory, so that the same application after a new start can be loaded faster, and therefore these components do not have to be reloaded. With Memory Optimizer, you can remove no longer required components from the RAM memory. The optimization of RAM can be made automatically or manually as needed. To start Memory Optimizer, go into the Optimization category and click Memory Optimizer: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 20 Bodrag Utilities 2009 The memory optimizer is divided into two tabs: Status In the Status tab will give you the details about your physical RAM and the paging file. Also you get a graphical display of the memory and the memory usage. You can also read here the current size of the clipboard cache. You can directly optimize RAM from this tab by clicking the Optimize now! button. Also you can empty the clipboard cache by clicking Empty button. The status of automatic optimization will be displayed here, and you can enable or disable it. Settings In the Settings tab, you can set different settings for the Memory Optimizer. Show icon in tray If you want to display Memory Optimizer icon in tray, select this option. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Optimization 21 Optimization shortcut Change the keyboard shortcut for memory optimization. Automatic optimization You can use the slider to set the minimum amount of available memory. If available memory will get under this value, the automatic optimization will start. In addition, you can select to optimize memory depending the CPU load. If you want the automatic optimization only takes place when the CPU is only up to 50% capacity, then select the When CPU usage is: and adjust the slider to 50%. Also you can choose Smart optimization and let Memory Optimizer decide when automatic optimization should be made. Memory Optimizer in the tray If the Memory Optimizer started (manually or automatically by Windows) it will place an icon in the tray (if this option is enabled). Clicking the right mouse button on the icon of the Memory Optimizer, you will get a context menu that allows you, among others, to manually optimize memory or empty clipboard cache. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 22 3.3 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Internet Optimizer With the Internet connection alone, you have not yet the optimal Internet connections, the settings of your system to help significantly. With Internet Optimizer you can optimize your Internet connection and get a better data transfer speed. To start Internet Optimizer, go into the Optimization category and click Internet Optimizer: To start your Internet connection optimization click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Optimization Select your Internet connection type and click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 23 24 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Internet Optimizer will check your Internet connection settings and show you needed changes. You can select changes that you don't want to apply. Click Next to start optimization. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Optimization 25 Your Internet connection has now been optimized. In order to use these new settings you have to restart Windows. 3.4 Registry Defragmenter Frequent starting and stopping of Windows, as well as install and uninstall applications, with the time, bring the Windows registry fragmented, and possibly with errors. Due to this fragmentation the reading and writing process of the registry takes longer than at a defragmented registry file. There is a reduction in performance of your system. With the Registry Defragmenter you have the ability to defragment the registry, therefore, the fragmentation of the registry is reduced, and unused memory is recovered. The performance of your system thereby increasing again. To start Registry Defragmenter, go into the Optimization category and click Registry Defragmenter: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 26 Bodrag Utilities 2009 In order to defragment registry, click Next. Your system will be analyzed. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Optimization 27 Now you will receive a detailed overview of the registry fragmentation, you can see the size of the registry after defragmentation and how much space is gained. Click Finish to begin the defragmentation process. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Part IV Clean 4 29 Clean In this category you will find all the tools from Bodrag Utilities 2009 designed to clean your system of unnecessary data. This category tools are: · Disk Cleaner · Registry Cleaner · Shredder · Disk Wipe 4.1 Disk Cleaner Use the Disk Cleaner to remove unnecessary files from the hard disk and get more free space. With Disk Cleaner you can remove simple and safe following files: temporary Internet files, cookies, temporary files, temporary help files, image cache files, log files, system backup files and more. Of course, you can specify which files you wish to search for and what really should be deleted. To start Disk Cleaner, go into the Clean category and click Disk Cleaner: Select the drives that you want to search for useless files by checking them. Then click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 30 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Choose which file types should be searched.Click Select All to select all file types to choose. After selecting the file types, click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean Now file search have started. You can see how many files have been found. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 31 32 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Here you can see found files divided into respective categories. Select in each category which files should be deleted by clicking Show details button. If you want to delete all the files in a category, simply select that category. After you have made your selection, click Next to continue. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 33 Now you will receive an overall result of all selected files to delete, and the resulting recoverable disk space. Now click on Next to delete these files. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 34 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now you can see the file deletion progress. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 35 After deletion process is finished, you can see a report of deleted files and recovered space. Some files could not be deleted because are used by some application. To close Disk Cleaner, click Close button. 4.2 Registry Cleaner Use the Registry Cleaner to remove unnecessary and invalid registry entries. You can check for the following registry entries: Help files, Fonts, Shortcuts, Startup, Start Menu, Shared files, Application Paths, File Associations, History records, Sound Files, COM & ActiveX entries. To start Registry Cleaner, go into the Clean category and click Registry Cleaner: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 36 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Select the scan mode. Click Complete scan to scan for all entry types. If you want to individually select which registry entries to scan, then select Custom scan. Then click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean If you chose Custom scan, select registry entries to be checked and click Next to start scan. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 37 38 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now invalid registry entries search have started. You can see how many entries have been found. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 39 Here you can see found registry entries divided into respective categories. Select in each category which entries should be deleted by clicking Show details button. If you want to delete all the files in a category, simply select that category. After you have made your selection, click Next to continue. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 40 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now you will receive an overall result of selected registry entries to delete and the total count of found registry entries. Now click on Next to delete these entries. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean Now you can see the invalid entries cleaning progress. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 41 42 Bodrag Utilities 2009 The cleaning process is now complete. Through the clean of the Registry, other invalid entries can be generated. Click on Perform new scan to make a new scan with previous settings. To close Registry Cleaner click Close. 4.3 Shredder Do you have files that contain important information and should be deleted? Then you should not simply delete them to Recycle Bin! Because these data may be restore by the other users of your computer. You can delete files and folder, safe and unrecoverable, using Shredder application and nobody can recover them using data recovery software. To start Shredder, go into the Clean category and click Shredder: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 43 First, select whether you want to delete, files, folders or the contents of the Recycle Bin, and click Next. Delete Files Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 44 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Click on Add file and select the files you want to secure delete. You can remove a file from the list by clicking Remove file button. To remove all files from the list click Remove all files. When file selection is completed click Next. Delete folders Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 45 Proceed as with the deletion of files, only files you can now select a folder. Note that when you delete the entire folder contents of the selected folder with irretrievably destroyed. Click on Add folder and select the folders you want to secure delete. You can remove a folder from the list by clicking Remove folder button. To remove all folders from the list click Remove all folders. When folder selection is completed click Next. Delete Recycle Bin content Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 46 Bodrag Utilities 2009 You will see the Recycle Bin status with total file count and occupied disk space. To see the content click on View Recycle Bin content. To start Recycle Bin content secure erase, click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 47 Now select the method by which the files are deleted. The highest erase method will take longer but it make sure that the content can't be recovered. The safest method is the Peter Gutmann method. In order to erase file allocated free space select Delete allocated free space. Also you can choose to scramble the file name in order to make it harder to find and recover. For this select Overwrite file name. To start the erase process click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 48 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now the secure deletion started and you can see the progress. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 49 Now deletion process is completed. Click Close to close Shredder. 4.4 Disk Wipe Did you simply deleted files with important information? Anyone can see them by using file recovery software.To make sure that your confidential information are gone forever you should secure erase your hard disk free space, using Disk Wipe application and nobody can recover them using data recovery software. To start Disk Wipe, go into the Clean category and click Disk Wipe: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 50 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Select disk drives that you want to secure erase. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean 51 Now select the method by which the free space is erased. The highest erase method will take longer but it make sure that the content can't be recovered. The safest method is the Peter Gutmann method. To start the erase process click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 52 Bodrag Utilities 2009 You will see now the progress of free space erase with current write speed and remaining time. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Clean Now the erase process is completed. To close Disk Wipe click on Close button. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 53 Part V Protection 5 55 Protection In this category you will find all security tools from Bodrag Utilities 2009 designed to protect your privacy, your applications against access by unauthorized users, your data and your system. This category tools are: · Startup Security · Computer Security · EXE Protector · Spyware Protector · Registry Backup 5.1 Startup Security Many applications launch automatically when Windows start without asking for your permission. With Startup Security you can monitor all startup applications and you can choose which are allowed and which should be blocked. To start Startup Security, go into the Protection category and click Startup Security: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 56 Bodrag Utilities 2009 In the list you see all applications which start with Windows. To block an application, select the entry from the list and click on Block. To allow an application again, select the blocked application from the list and then click Accept. To remove an application from the list, select it and then click Delete. When a new application will try to add itself to start with Windows, you will see the following window with information about it in the bottom right corner of the desktop: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection 57 Click Accept or Block in order to allow or block it from launch when Windows is started. 5.2 Computer Security How important is your privacy? While surfing the Internet, for example, content of web pages in stored in the browser cache. Also cookies, browsing history, passwords are stored on your computer for later use. Windows stores links to recent used documents and applications, temporary files that may contain confidential information. Would you like to destroy all these traces? Computer Security tool from Bodrag Utilities 2009 is the right choice for you. To start Computer Security, go into the Protection category and click Computer Security: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 58 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Click Next to start traces clean. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection 59 Here you can select which traces you want to clean. There are three tabs with which you can individually select which tracks should be deleted. To select all options from the current tab click Select all. Similarly, you can unselect all options clicking on Select none. When your selection is finished click Next. Cookie Manager Click on Cookie manager to choose cookies that should not to be deleted when you select Delete cookies. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 60 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Choose from the left list cookies that you want to keep and then click Add. To remove a cookie from the list of remaining cookies, select it and click Remove. In order to keep all cookies, click Add all. To remove all the cookies from the list of remaining cookies, click Remove all. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection 61 Here you can see which application you should close in order to start cleaning process. After you closed applications click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 62 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now traces are being erased and you can see the progress. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection 63 Now all selected traces are deleted. Click Close in order to close Computer Security. 5.3 EXE Protector If your computer is used by several people and there are applications that you want to restrict to be used by foreign users, then EXE Protector will help you to do so. With EXE Protector you can protect any application with a password, and that application can run only when entering the correct password. To start EXE Protector, go into the Protection category and click EXE Protector: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 64 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Lock an application In order to protect an application, select Lock executable file then click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection 65 Click Browse to select the application executable file. Then enter the password in the password field and confirm. Then click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 66 Bodrag Utilities 2009 The application is now password protected. To close EXE Protector click Close. Unlock an application In order to remove password protection form an application, select Unlock executable file and click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection Click Browse and select the protected application executable file. Then enter the password in the password field. Click Next. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 67 68 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Now the password protection of the application is removed. To close EXE Protector click Close. 5.4 Spyware Protector Spyware, adware, browser hijackers, and dialers are some of the most annoying and dangerous threats on the Internet today. By simply browsing a web page, you could find your computer infected by one of these unwanted fiends! Spyware Protector can help you to keep your system secure. But, unlike other programs, Spyware Protector does not scan your system for spyware. It will secure your system in order to protect it to be infected when you visit webpages. To start Spyware Protector, go into the Protection category and click Spyware Protector: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection 69 In the Overview section you can see general status of your computer protection. To protect your system, select one category from the left side. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 70 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Here you can see a list with dangerous webpages. To protect your system by all these pages click Select all. If you want to restrict access only to some entries, select them using the check boxes. When selection is complete click on Protect now! and your system become secured. 5.5 Registry Backup The registry file is an important component of your system. If it is destroyed, your operating system will run with errors or in the worst case, it will no longer run. To prevent this, we recommend to backup your registry records. Basically, you should do it prior to any registry change. With Registry Backup you can create registry backups and restore them. To start Registry Backup, go into the Protection category and click Registry Backup: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Protection 71 Backup To take a backup of the registry, click Backup button. You can add a comment for each backup file. The backup of the registry will be created and included in the list of created backups. Restore Backup To restore registry to a previous state from a backup file, select it from the list of created backups and click on Restore button. Delete Backup If you want to delete a backup from the list of created backups, select it and click Delete button. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Part VI Fix & Repair 6 73 Fix & Repair In this category you will find all tools from Bodrag Utilities 2009 designed to help you to repair and fix Windows problems and errors. This category tools are: · Process Manager · Startup Manager · Service Manager · Uninstaller 6.1 Process Manager Do you know exactly what applications are currently running on your system? With Process Manager from Bodrag Utilities 2009 you get now all needed details. It displays all running applications, all processes and their memory requirements and computer performance graphics. To start Process Manager, go into the Fix & Repair category and click Process Manager: Process Manager is built on three tabs: Applications Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 74 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Here you can see a list of the running programs on your computer. To switch to an application from the list, select it and click Switch to. Also you can close an application by clicking on Close application. Processes Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Fix & Repair 75 In this tab you can see all running processes on your system. Selecting an entry, you can see process details on the bottom. Right click on an entry and a popup menu will appear with the following options: Terminate process This option will terminate the selected process immediately. Please note that some process are required by Windows in order to work stable. Set priority With this entry you can change the current process priority. Open file location Click this entry to open the folder where process file is located in Windows Explorer. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 76 Bodrag Utilities 2009 File properties This will display the file properties of the corresponding process file. Search for file with Google Click this entry to search for selected process file on Google. Thus you can use Google to get more information about the selected process. Process details This will open a new window with more details on the selected process. Also you can see a list with DLL modules used by the selected process. Performance Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Fix & Repair 77 Here you can see details about CPU and memory utilization. 6.2 Startup Manager Many applications launch automatically when Windows start. Some of them are required, for example to provide you with important functions such as your virus scanner. Others are useless or even dangerous applications that also start together with your system. Any new application that is added to Windows startup will make your system to start more slowly and have less free memory. With the Startup Manager from Bodrag Utilities 2009 you can now manage applications that launch on Windows startup. To start Startup Manager, go into the Fix & Repair category and click Startup Manager: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 78 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Here you can see all applications that start on Windows startup. In the left pane you can see the categories of startup applications. Select one of them to get a list of startup entries. You can simply enable or disable them using check boxes. By clicking the right mouse button on an entry you will see a popup menu with additional functions: Enable/Disable entry This option will enable or disable selected startup entry. Delete entry Click this option to completely delete the startup entry. Launch application This option will launch application associated with startup entry. Open file location Click this option to open the folder where startup application file is located in Windows Explorer. Search for file with Google Click this option to search for selected startup application file on Google. Thus you can use Google to get more information about the selected entry. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Fix & Repair 79 File properties This will display the file properties of the corresponding startup application file. Details This will open a new window with more details on the selected entry. 6.3 Service Manager You have installed applications that run as service and you want to stop it? Or you want to change the way it start? You can use Service Manager to make all these and also to get details about each installed service on your system. To start Service Manager, go into the Fix & Repair category and click Service Manager: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 80 Bodrag Utilities 2009 You will see a list of all installed services on your computer. Select one service from the list in order to see details about it. Start a service Select the stopped service from the list an right click on it. From the popup menu click an Start service. Stop a service Select the running service from the list an right click on it. From the popup menu click an Stop service. Change service startup Select the service from the list an right click on it. From the popup menu click an Startup type and select how you want to start (automatic, manual or disabled). Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Fix & Repair 6.4 81 Uninstaller During the use of your computer you will install some applications. If you don't need an application anymore, you can uninstall it and clean it from your system. Also, you can edit uninstall entries for your applications and see which applications have invalid uninstall entries. To start Uninstaller, go into the Fix & Repair category and click Uninstaller: Edit an entry To edit an entry, first select it from the list and right-click on it. A popup menu will appear and click Properties. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 82 Bodrag Utilities 2009 In the new dialog you can see and change entry details. However, you should have experience with the computer before you make changes here. Incorrect values in the command line can cause the uninstall application to not start. To save changes click OK, or Cancel to discard them. Remove Entry If you would like to remove an entry from the list of installed applications (e.g. if the application is no longer installed on your system and the entry was not removed or the entry is shown as invalid), then select the entry and click Remove entry. However, you should have experience with the computer before you make changes here. If you remove an entry and application is still installed on your system, you will not be able to uninstall it. Uninstall application In order to uninstall an application, select it from the list and then click Uninstall. Follow the uninstall routine of the application. Refresh To refresh the list of installed applications (e.g. if you have uninstalled some applications) click on Refresh button. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Part VII 84 7 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Other Tools In this category you will find useful tools to help you work with Windows XP & Vista. So you can, for example, to change Windows visual style, find many useful information about your system and running applications, and more. This category tools are: · System Information · Windows Styler · Wallpaper Changer · Auto Shutdown · Tweaker 7.1 System Information Do you know exactly what hardware is installed in your system, the version number of your operating system, or what Internet connections are installed? With System Information from Bodrag Utilities 2009 ther is no longer a secret for you! You can get detailed information about your entire system. To start System Information, go into the Other Tools category and click System Information: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Other Tools 7.2 85 Windows Styler Do you like default icons of Windows? Would you prefer different icons for your files & folders? Then you can use Windows Styler from Bodrag Utilities 2009 to make these changes. To start Windows Styler, go into the Other Tools category and click Windows Styler: Windows Styler is built on ten categories: Desktop icons Here you can change icons for common Windows desktop icons like Recycle Bin and Computer. Start Menu icons Here you can change icons for common Start Menu entries. Control Panel icons Here you can change icons for common Control Panel items. Drive icons Here you can change icons for common drive types icons. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 86 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Folder icons Here you can change icons for common Folder categories like Music, Pictures and Documents. File icons Here you can change icons for common file types. Other icons Here you can change icons for other system icons. To change icon, select it from the list and click Change ... button. Select the new one from the dialog that will be displayed. If you want to pick an icon from another file or library click on Browse button. You can select *. dll, *. exe or *. ico files. If you found the right icon, click OK and the new icon will be selected. To reset an icon to Windows default click on Reset button. To reset all icons from the current category to Windows default click on Reset category button.. To apply all changes you have made to current category click on Apply button. Files & Folders icons Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Other Tools 87 In this category you can change icons for each folder on your computer. In Windows XP you can also change folder tooltip and wallpaper. In order to get these changes applied you should restart Windows. Icon settings Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 88 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Here you can change the spacing between desktop icons. Also you can choose to display or not the shortcut arrow. For Windows XP you can set the size of the desktop icons from 16x16 to 256x256. To apply you settings click on Apply button. To reset them to Windows default, click on Default button. Repair icons If your computer icons are incorrect displayed click on Repair Icon Cache button. Also if your computer icons are not displayed click on Refresh icons button. In order to apply you should restart Windows. 7.3 Wallpaper Changer You might have lots of beautiful pictures on your computer that can make your desktop look awesome, but you have to manually change your wallpaper. Bring life to your desktop with Wallpaper Changer from Bodrag Utilities 2009. It changes your desktop wallpaper automatically. Of course, you select which background images should be displayed. To start Wallpaper Changer, go into the Other Tools category and click Wallpaper Changer: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Other Tools 89 Wallpaper Changer supports following image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF and PNG. To add image files to the list click on + button. You will see a popup menu with two options. Add wallpapers allow you to select image files that will be added to list. Add wallpapers from folder will add all supported images from a specified folder. To remove files from the list click on - button. You will see a popup menu with two options. Click Delete selected image from the list to remove selected image from the list. To remove all images from the list click Delete all images from the list. To change the order of images from the list you can use the up/down arrow buttons. Options Wallpaper change interval Here you can set the time interval on which the desktop wallpaper should be changed. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 90 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Wallpaper style With this option you specify how the background images should be displayed on the desktop. Desktop Color Here you can set the color of the desktop background. If you have selected an image that doesn't fit the entire desktop, the selected color will be displayed around it. Change wallpaper randomly With this option the background image is changed in a random order. 7.4 Auto Shutdown This application let your computer automatically shutdown. This is especially useful if you run an application with a task, that will take a long time to run, and you don't have the time to stand and wait until you can shut down the computer. Instead of shutting down the computer, you can also choose to restart, logo off, go in standby mode or hibernate. To start Auto Shutdown, go into the Other Tools category and click Auto Shutdown: The application is based on three tabs: Actions Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Other Tools 91 Here you can choose the action that should occur. You can select from shut down, log off, restart, standby or hibernate. Also you can set when selected action should occur. Select Shutdown in to apply action after a specified time interval or Shutdown at to apply it at a specified time and day. Click Apply Settings to apply settings. To activate automatic shutdown, click Enable. Hot keys Here you can assign a hot key for each action (shutdown, restart, log off, standby and hibernate). To activate use of hot keys select Enable hot keys. Also you can select to confirm each hot key action by selecting Confirm hot key action. Settings With the Settings tab, you can save different settings for automatic shut down to enable or disable. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 92 Bodrag Utilities 2009 Show warning balloon before execute action Set this if you want to see a balloon message on the notification area (icon tray) before an action execution. Show remaining time as tray icon tooltip Set this to display the remaining time until the action execution as a tooltip of the tray icon. Sound alarm This will enable a sound alarm when a action is executed in Auto Shutdown. Show warning Will ask user if he want to execute the action when it occurs. Menu Options Here you can set which actions should be available on the popup menu of the Auto Shutdown tray icon. 7.5 Tweaker If you wan to customize your system settings, Tweaker is the perfect choice.In this way, you can make the operating system more effective and tailored to meet your needs. To start Tweaker, go into the Other Tools category and click Tweaker: Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. Other Tools 93 Tweaker options are arranged in several categories. Please note that some settings will be applied after the restart of Windows! Select the options you want to change on each category. To apply them you have to click on Apply button. On each category you have to option to restore settings to Windows defaults. For this you have to click on Default settings button. After you have restored all settings that you want to Windows default, click Apply to set them. Copyright 2009 - BODRAG S.R.L. 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