• Manage your services through the Services Manager which provides different configuration options to improve the performance and setup of your Windows services. Here there are three options. The first is the "Recommend Services" that provide a combination of performance and functionality, this option will enable all core services and a selection of other services to provide balance between features and speed. The second is the "Minimal Services" which will give you raw performance and faster boot times and will enable only core Windows Services. Finally there is "Restore Services" which will restore your services to a last known good setup. Be careful with the minimal services as this can cause stability problems by turning off too many things off to increase performance.
• Defragment registry compacts your registry and removes gaps, wasted space and corrupt keys from the registry, and performs physical defragmentation of the Windows registry files.
• Clean your disks gives you the ability to clean your computer to securely remove Internet tracks, history information and other sensitive data. Be careful here as well as this will remove document folder history, search folder history, your Windows recycle bin, as well as other areas of your computer that you may look to in the future to recover old data.
• Windows Defragmenter is a built-in defragmentation tool that provides a streamlined interface into the Windows Disk Defragmenter. This native Windows process lets you optimize and order the data on your disk for faster access.
• Monitor your system provides you the tools to actively monitor processes, system performance, drive/space usage, and system information. Through this you can optimize your system and defragment you hard drives for faster performance
• Monitor your registry is designed to assist in keeping your system free of Windows registry errors. Registry Monitor observes your Windows registry and alerts 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.
• Windows tools are primarily an interface to the standard tools that are in the Windows control panels. They give you the ability to manage your computer from within the Norton interface.
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