Vista Manager

Tinkering with the operating system settings in order to obtain a more stable and responsive environment is not an easy job and because of that many dedicated utilities are available on the software market.

Vista Manager is one of those applications and, as its name suggests, it is meant to be used under a specific version of Microsoft Windows.

Insofar as the looks of this program are concerned, it comes with a quite nice GUI which, more importantly, is very well organized as it has to accommodate a lot of functions in a rather small space.

All the commands and features are neatly placed in relevant categories in the left-side pane, some of them having a set of sub-categories as well and these are structured into several tabs for ease of access.

Vista Manager makes it possible for every user to go in-depth with the customizations and also get plenty of system information, a process management facility as well as a one-click registry junk cleaner.

The Optimization Wizard helps in the improvement of the PC performance by going through a dozen of steps to address and solve a lot of potential issues. There is a special 'Optimizer' module that can take care of system speed, startup programs, services and multimedia settings.

Other vital areas like the system security or the network management can be accessed from Vista Manager. The personalization of the OS appearance is by no means left aside because there are many adjustments that can be tweaked from several areas of the application.

On the whole, this software solution seems definitely well suited for improving the default configuration of the operating system, but it has the disadvantage of addressing a less popular iteration of Microsoft's proprietary OS, which decreases the number of potential users.