Simple Performance Boost is such a tweaking software for Windows. It comes from the same developers that have created the Windows Repair software. The program itself is offered as a portable version and installer.

When you start it for the first time you will notice that it creates a backup before it opens up in a tabbed interface that divide tweaks into groups. Impatient users can simply click on the Apply Tweaks button to apply pre-selected tweaks to the system.

It is however a good idea to take a closer look at each tab before doing so to make sure you do not change or remove features from the system that you use.

Each tab holds between 15 and 25 different tweaks per tab. If you have used tweak software before you will notice a lot of similarities with comparable applications. Most of the tweaks are part of other applications as well. What I personally like about Simple Performance Boost is that it not only describes what each tweak does but that it also lists the Registry keys that get changed when the tweak is applied.

I do not want to go over all tweaks in detail. The number of tweaks available is solid enough to download and run the application. If you have tweaked your system already, you probably won’t find any new tweaks that you do not know about. New users on the other hand can use the tool to apply many different tweaks in less than a minute.

Interested users can download both the installer or portable version of Simple Performance Boost from the developer website. The application is compatible with all versions of Windows from Windows XP on.

Besides that quick maintenance mode it also comes with lots of additional modules that are divided up into the five categories Clean Up & Repair, Optimize & Improve, Privacy & Security, Files & Folders and System Tools. All of them with three to four modules that start various tools to maintain the operating system.

The Privacy & Security category for example contains a Tracks Eraser, File Shredder, File Undelete and File Encryption / Decryption tool. Having said that it should be obvious that the software combines the features of various popular utilities in one application. While it can replace many applications it does not come close to some of the top applications in their fields. Taking Eraser for example. Eraser lets users deleted unused hard drive space so that the data cannot be recovered anymore. Glary Utilities on the other hand can only delete files so that they cannot be restored anymore.

Glary Utilities provides many tools that can be used for system maintenance. It provides access to the tools in a clean interface and could be worthwhile to test for users who love all in one tools instead of specialized tools.

Mz Cpu Accelerator is one of those applications. No, it’s not one of those applications that try to accelerator applications by dividing them on the various cpu cores of the system. This Windows tweaking tool accelerates the active application by raising its priority.

The same functionality is available manually when opening the Windows Taskmanager. A right-click on a task provides the Priority menu where the user can set the process priority from low to realtime. The manual method has to disadvantages:

• The user has to make the changes in the task manager
• The changes are gone when the task is terminated

Advanced Shortcuts Composer was reviewed two days ago which made it possible to set the priority of a process in the shortcut which would be permanently if the application would be started using that shortcut. That however is not possible for all processes.

Back to the Cpu Accelerator. The user can select the priority of the active application between above normal, high and realtime. The main window of the tweaking tool is also providing access to various startup options and displays the currently active application. This comes in handy when testing processes and applications that have been added to the exclusion list. If a user does not want an application to be affected from the Cpu Accelerator then he could add it to the exclusion list.

Mz Cpu Accelerator comes with a cpu manager as well which can be used to assign certain cpu cores to applications. The software program can be placed in the system tray where it provides quick access to changing the priority level, managing cpu cores and disabling the software program which is also possible by using a keyboard hotkey.

The software runs fine on all Windows operating systems up to Windows Vista and requires the .net Framework 2.0 to be installed.