jv16 PowerTools is an application that enables you to clean and manage your Windows registry entries, but also allows you to remove installed programs from the system.
After a brief installation process, you are welcomed by a quick tutorial that informs you that the software automatically creates backups before there are any changes made to your computer.
jv16 PowerTools is designed for both beginners and expert users. That is why you can select the interface viewing mode.
The simplified mode is indeed easy to navigate through. In the Home section, you can clean and fix your computer (registry errors, junk MRU and history data, temp files, start menu and desktop items), speed up your system (e.g. disable low disk space check, disable all Windows shortcut keys), control which programs automatically run at startup, fully remove applications and leftovers, or verify that your downloads are safe to run.
Registry Tools offers you access to a manager, finder, Registry Find and Replace, cleaner, compactor, information, and monitor tool, while File Tools let you encrypt, decrypt, copy, execute, merge, delete, split, wipe, mass-rename, organize, clean and recover files, etc.
System Tools is a part of jv16 PowerTools where you can use a software uninstaller, startup manager, start menu tool, automation tool, service manager and system optimizer, while the Privacy Tools module enables you to delete history and wipe a disk.
Registry backups, file backups and others can be deleted or restored at any time, and you can also view the operations you have performed in the Action History section.
Furthermore, you can customize the interface, output paths for settings, backup directories, disable automatic backups and auto check for program updates, select language, and more.
Unfortunately, the help file (i.e. handbook) is only available online, and the program uses a high amount of memory resources. It generally takes several seconds to load a feature, but it does not freeze or crash (not in our case, at least).
All in all, jv16 PowerTools is a good place to start tweaking some of your system's components. We certainly recommend it to both novices and power users.
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release:
· Bug fix: The program doesn't remember if you resized its windows, instead the windows always open in their default size.
· Bug fix: The Debug Tool's report doesn't mention Windows 8, only the older Windows versions are included.
· Bug fix: Registry Cleaner and the Clean and Fix My Computer could remove the license information of Thumbsplus Pro V9 (because the data is stored in the registry in a format of a registry error)
· Bug fix: Unit Testing tool can crash to Access Violation in relation to the TDuplicateAnalyzer component.
· Bug fix: Decrap My Computer can show a partial Software Installed list if the operation is aborted during the software scan.
· Bug fix: Decrap My Computer always shows a partial Software Installed list if the operation is aborted during the first software scan.
· Bug fix: Debug Log doesn't always contain all the debug data (e.g. the System Info section) if the program is started with a command line parameter.
· Bug fix: The Grouping tab of the File Finder always shows the...