CAT

You’ve surely encountered different issues when using a Windows PC, and these can occur because of old programs trying to make no longer supported changes, malicious content accidentally downloaded, or who knows what else. Just to help you restore functionality to various system areas, CAT comes with a set of tools to make the repair process easy.

On the one hand, the application skips you the time, and effort you usually invest into setting it up, and can easily run as soon as download is done. This also enables you to carry it around on a USB flash drive to use on other computers as well. Portability keeps system registries clean, but the repair process itself might manage them to bring back the functionality you need.

When launched, the main window shows up in a clean, custom-made interface, with all editable areas easily accessible from a side panel. These include fixes, tweaks, miscellaneous tools, a detailed log of events, and the possibility to revert to existing restore points, just in case something goes wrong during repairs.

It’s best to make a backup of your entire system before attempting to fix anything. What’s more, you need to use the application whenever default system behaviors change. Fixes attempt to re-enable general Windows features, or bring them back to the default configuration, and chances are that many third-party utilities, or context menu enhancements don’t work afterwards.

Depending on what’s broken, the application can be used to fix broken links inside apps, printer install errors, USB drives not displaying, flush DNS resolver cache, reset Explorer shell, re-enable task manager, reset all networking interfaces, and more. Additional tools can be used to decrease menu show delay, take ownership of files and folders, and even upload a suspicious file to VirusTotal to have it scanned for malware.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that CAT aims to restore the default functionality of your operating system. Be sure to create a backup before processing. Various areas can be fully reset, or re-enabled, but at the risk of making different programs, or visual enhancements unusable.