Handy Tweakers

Handy Tweakers is an easy to use software solution that comes with the essential Windows performance optimization tools, all offered via a very clean and straightforward GUI.

Options are displayed in tabs, which makes everything a breeze for any user category, because a click is all they need to quickly access specific tweak options.

You can for example customize the Start Menu by enabling or disabling documents tracking, while the app also offers dedicated settings to hide or show recent documents, favorites, log off, shut down and run buttons.

The “Misc” tab on the other hand gives you the power to add an “Open With Notepad” or “Command Prompt Here” context menu option to quickly access any of these two utilities from Windows Explorer.

Clearing history is possible via the “History” tab, while a very interesting bonus comes in the form a scheduler that that lets you initiate a shut down or reboot the machine at a defined time.

Handy Tweakers supports shut downs, reboots, log offs and hibernate, with dedicated options to execute the selected action either after a specific number of minutes or straight at a configured time.

There is no help manual available in the package and while that may sound like bad news for beginners, it's not. Handy Tweakers is most of the time a very intuitive app, so the majority of users don't even need a help section.

All things considered, Handy Tweakers makes for a very decent application, although we've seen a lot of similar apps offering a lot more customization options. It's a good thing however that it works flawlessly on all Windows versions.