File Details |
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| File Size | 2.6 MB |
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| License | Shareware, $29.95 |
| Operating System | Windows 7/8/10 |
| Date Added | April 28, 2017 |
| Total Downloads | 14,406 |
| Publisher | Digital Millenium Software Inc. |
| Homepage | Dr.Salman's Window Power Tools |
Publisher's Description
Dr.Salman's Window Power Tools optimizes Windows, your Internet connection, modem dial speed, Windows Start menu and Popup menus. It also increases the system RAM by 3-50 Megabytes, defragments ram, prevents memory leaks, boosts performance, recovers wasted ram and more. In addition, the program gives Windows security and anti-hacking features, and a lot more.
Latest Reviews
eblade reviewed v5.0.2005 Rev. 1 on Dec 7, 2005
First off, I love system optimization tools. I've tried tons and tons and tons of them, always looking for one I like better than the last.
I'm going to review everything in this package, just to give it a fair shake. I initially found the Dr. Salman's software on here, while looking through programs to find junk files, as this computer i've inherited has an 80GB drive, and after writing virtually all media files on here to CDs, I'm up to a whole 10GB open.
First off, installing this package installed the Visual Basic 6 runtime somewhere on my system, I presume into the windows directory, but that's a pretty bad thing. Just dumping unrequested software with the only box saying "Now installing..." gets a first bad mark. It'd be fine if it said "Hey, you need this", if it searched for it first, and found I didn't have it. But, it doesn't.
The first tool is the Disk Space Recovery Wizard. My review of it is here on betanews, but I'll just say that I think it's awful. Read my review over on that page for specifics. This module gets a 1.
The second tool is the "HyperNet". This one, I like. The relevant TCP/IP settings that come variously set horribly wrong in Windows are all easily set properly, and there's not a ton of other junk included with it. It seems to have made a difference in my network speeds, without screwing up anything else. (I don't remember the name of the last one I tried, but I ran it, and couldn't get my network working afterwards, even after re-installing the entire OS, and actually ended up replacing the NIC card to get my network back online). This module gets a 4.
The next tool is the "HyperWindows" tool. It tells me that I have a bunch of stuff "Not Optimized", "Not Accelerated", and other such "not set for fastest" things. These are:
Windows DLL handling, Windows paging executive, fast shutdown, file allocation size, prefetch acceleration, NTFS performance, Windows IRQ handling, Windows Prefetch, and DNS Cache.
My first thought is "I have run tons of different utilities for optimizing all this various stuff. What is it finding?", and there's no information as to what it is going to do to my system when I click this "Optimize" button on the window. Which, I'm going to do right.... now.
Well, it didn't blow anything up. Yet. It finished, turned all those boxes to "Optmized" or "Accelerated", and tells me to reboot. I'll let you know how this goes.
..ok, I'm back. Good news is, the computer didn't explode. Bad news is that the only thing that seems to have changed is that my Windows Explorer right click menus are now really bizarre, in all black, with dark grey text, difficult to read, and the fonts look crazy. I think part of that is the fault of WindowBlinds 4, which did some weird things to my explorer fonts, but not THAT weird. Doesn't look like it does much of anything, though I'm not a benchmark sort of optimizer, I prefer to seat of my pants feel things. This module gets a 1.
The next module is "MemZilla". This is your run of the mill memory optimizer. Personally I don't trust the memory optimizers, to do more than unload a bunch of stuff into swap that I will probably reload in a matter of minutes anyway. That's personal, so I'm not going to rate this suite on that piece.
The next module is the Windows Security Module. Looks like it doesn't do anything that the control panel for security policies already does. This module gets a 1.
To summarise, the only thing that is worth anything in this toolset is the "HyperNet" tool. I give the whole set of tools a 1.5, the .5 being on the goodness of HyperNet.
Anyone know how to fix my explorer menus?
(never mind on that, I reset my skin in WindowBlinds, and that fixed it)
blackimp reviewed v5.0.2005 Rev. 1 on Oct 12, 2005
$50 for this?! They are making alot of money I'm sure, and that's the sad thing. Awful suite of stuff you can Google and get for free, or at least less expensive. Dr. Salman's hasn't been relevant since 1999.
Blackhole8746 reviewed v5.0.2005 on Sep 13, 2005
I would not encourage Java programmed apps for WINDOWS tweaking that's lame... And doctor Salman you seem to be a real t**t
eblade reviewed v5.0.2005 Rev. 1 on Dec 7, 2005
First off, I love system optimization tools. I've tried tons and tons and tons of them, always looking for one I like better than the last.
I'm going to review everything in this package, just to give it a fair shake. I initially found the Dr. Salman's software on here, while looking through programs to find junk files, as this computer i've inherited has an 80GB drive, and after writing virtually all media files on here to CDs, I'm up to a whole 10GB open.
First off, installing this package installed the Visual Basic 6 runtime somewhere on my system, I presume into the windows directory, but that's a pretty bad thing. Just dumping unrequested software with the only box saying "Now installing..." gets a first bad mark. It'd be fine if it said "Hey, you need this", if it searched for it first, and found I didn't have it. But, it doesn't.
The first tool is the Disk Space Recovery Wizard. My review of it is here on betanews, but I'll just say that I think it's awful. Read my review over on that page for specifics. This module gets a 1.
The second tool is the "HyperNet". This one, I like. The relevant TCP/IP settings that come variously set horribly wrong in Windows are all easily set properly, and there's not a ton of other junk included with it. It seems to have made a difference in my network speeds, without screwing up anything else. (I don't remember the name of the last one I tried, but I ran it, and couldn't get my network working afterwards, even after re-installing the entire OS, and actually ended up replacing the NIC card to get my network back online). This module gets a 4.
The next tool is the "HyperWindows" tool. It tells me that I have a bunch of stuff "Not Optimized", "Not Accelerated", and other such "not set for fastest" things. These are:
Windows DLL handling, Windows paging executive, fast shutdown, file allocation size, prefetch acceleration, NTFS performance, Windows IRQ handling, Windows Prefetch, and DNS Cache.
My first thought is "I have run tons of different utilities for optimizing all this various stuff. What is it finding?", and there's no information as to what it is going to do to my system when I click this "Optimize" button on the window. Which, I'm going to do right.... now.
Well, it didn't blow anything up. Yet. It finished, turned all those boxes to "Optmized" or "Accelerated", and tells me to reboot. I'll let you know how this goes.
..ok, I'm back. Good news is, the computer didn't explode. Bad news is that the only thing that seems to have changed is that my Windows Explorer right click menus are now really bizarre, in all black, with dark grey text, difficult to read, and the fonts look crazy. I think part of that is the fault of WindowBlinds 4, which did some weird things to my explorer fonts, but not THAT weird. Doesn't look like it does much of anything, though I'm not a benchmark sort of optimizer, I prefer to seat of my pants feel things. This module gets a 1.
The next module is "MemZilla". This is your run of the mill memory optimizer. Personally I don't trust the memory optimizers, to do more than unload a bunch of stuff into swap that I will probably reload in a matter of minutes anyway. That's personal, so I'm not going to rate this suite on that piece.
The next module is the Windows Security Module. Looks like it doesn't do anything that the control panel for security policies already does. This module gets a 1.
To summarise, the only thing that is worth anything in this toolset is the "HyperNet" tool. I give the whole set of tools a 1.5, the .5 being on the goodness of HyperNet.
Anyone know how to fix my explorer menus?
(never mind on that, I reset my skin in WindowBlinds, and that fixed it)
blackimp reviewed v5.0.2005 Rev. 1 on Oct 12, 2005
$50 for this?! They are making alot of money I'm sure, and that's the sad thing. Awful suite of stuff you can Google and get for free, or at least less expensive. Dr. Salman's hasn't been relevant since 1999.
Blackhole8746 reviewed v5.0.2005 on Sep 13, 2005
I would not encourage Java programmed apps for WINDOWS tweaking that's lame... And doctor Salman you seem to be a real t**t