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My Scheduler lets you set up automatic maintenance so you can forget about it and let BoostSpeed monitor your system and take action.

My Tasks takes you to a tab that houses recommended actions you may want to take to improve your PC’s state. This tool is especially useful to those who like to find new ways to boost their computers, as it will give you ideas on what to do next every time you open BoostSpeed.

My Questions

This link takes you to the Ask a Question tab, which will be described further in this guide.

My PC

This is your quick link to detailed information about your system, including hardware specs, OS and major software. Click it whenever you need the specs, such as when talking to tech support or looking to upgrade hardware parts.

My Tools

This link takes you to the All Tools tab where you can find the full list of all tools included in BoostSpeed. Click it whenever you need to quickly find and open a specific tool.

My Store

The link to the Auslogics Store lets you access more useful software from Auslogics and its partners, review information on each program and download installers. Full versions of the recommended programs may require license purchase.

When in Advanced mode, you get a lot more options listed on your Dashboard. Get brief info about your PC and software at the top with a link to detailed system information.

See a quick overview of your questions and answers status, or click to access the Ask a Question feature (described further in this guide).

Some of the options here are the same as in Basic mode (see detailed information earlier in this guide).

To remove a tab, simply click the X sign on it, just like you would in a web browser. This way you can set up the Dashboard just the way you want with the tools you’ll use most often.

The All Tools tab lists all of the apps that are included in BoostSpeed, dividing them into performance categories:

System tools let you run maintenance and optimization on your Windows system.

Disk tools provide multiple ways to clean your PC, defragment and maintain your disk drives.

Internet and Browser tools help improve connection speed and get online content to load faster.

Security tools help protect your personal information and secure your PC from threats.

Info tools allow you to get and review information about your system and different aspects of its operation.

To find out what a tool does or how it works, hover your mouse over it to bring up a hint. Click on a tool to launch it, and it will open as a new tab in BoostSpeed.

You can also access the tools listed here through the Tools menu at the top of the main program window.

You have seen many of these tools recommended under other relevant tabs throughout the program, but they are all listed here in one place to make it convenient for you to find the tool you need when you are looking to complete a specific job.

This defragmenter is one of the fastest on the market, with exclusive algorithms that are safe for your drives.

When you click on Disk Defrag under All Tools, it will open in a new tab and display the list of all drives in your computer system.

Check the boxes next to the drives you’d like to scan and defragment. Clicking the Defrag button will first run a scan of the selected drives, then defragment them, if defragmentation is needed.

Below the cluster map you can review detailed information on the selected drive, including information on files, the drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status and other details.

This is where you can get alerted to hard drive problems and prevent data loss that may occur due to drive failure.

You may also click the arrow on the Defrag button and select the operation you want to run: just Analyze the drives to see the fragmentation percentage, run a regular defrag, optimize your SSD drive using a special SSD-safe algorithm, run the Defrag & Optimize feature to help prevent fragmentation, or run a quick defrag without analyzing the drives.

In the center, you see the cluster map which you can use to get information about the location of files and file pieces on your drives. When defragmentation is running, you can watch the clusters being moved and files being put together on this map.

When you click on Startup Manager under All Tools, it will open as a new tab and display a list of all applications that have been added to the Startup list.

To disable an app, just click the toggle in front of the app’s name.

Click the ‘Google it’ link above the list to search the web for information on the selected startup item.

You can select an app and see its trust rating, publisher name and some other details below.

With this tool, you can review all software installed on your computer, select the apps you’d like uninstalled and remove them one at a time or in batches.

Using the tool is quite intuitive – just check the boxes next to the apps you want removed and click ‘Uninstall’, or ‘Multiple uninstall’ if removing several apps.

To run a search, set the search location(s) and criteria first (go through 4 steps in setting the filters).

When done with the search setup, click the Search button to look through the “free” space on your drive(s).

Note that the sooner you act after discovering the file loss, the better your chances of getting all the data you need recovered. Your deleted files are only recoverable until they get overwritten with new data.

When the search completes, you can look through the results, preview certain file types (like pictures or documents) and select the specific files you’d like restored. Use the filter at the top to narrow down the results, check the files you want and click ‘Recover Selected’ above the list.

Select an add-on to view information about it below the list.

Click the toggle in front of the add-on name to enable or disable it.

Use the ‘Google it’ link above the list to search the web for information about the selected add-on, if its rating is unknown or you aren’t sure if it’s needed.

With Menu Manager you can add or remove options from the context menu (right-click menu) for objects like files, folders, drives, the Recycle Bin, etc.

Click the toggle in front of each option to add it to the right-click menu or remove it.

Hover your mouse cursor over the ‘i’ symbol to preview the menu for each object type.

The tool deletes demo content, old WinSxS libraries, disabled Windows components, unneeded Windows update files, old system restore points, etc.

When you click on Windows Slimmer under All Tools, the tool will open with the One-Time Maintenance tab active by default.

After the scan completes, you will be able to review the results and take action as needed. BoostSpeed will not delete anything without you clicking the ‘Start Cleanup’ button.

When done with the One-Time Maintenance, click on Regular Maintenance in the left- side menu and choose the sections that may be cleaned up on a regular basis.

The third feature in Windows Slimmer’s left-side menu is ‘Compact OS’, new in BoostSpeed 12 as well. This tool lets you pack up system files to reduce the amount of space they take up on your drive. The feature is especially useful when your OS is installed on a smaller SSD drive which tends to run out of space.

Choose a category (select one cleanup category at a time for best results) and click on ‘Start Scan’.

You can have Windows Slimmer scan and clean up memory dumps, CD/DVD burning cache, the Recycle Bin, temporary folders and application logs. Just check the categories and click on ‘Start Scan’.

If your system drive has plenty of space available, we recommend having the Compact OS feature disabled to help your system access those files faster.

Open the tool from under the All Tools tab, select the entry types you’d like to scan (or keep the default sections checked) and click on ‘Scan Now’

When the scan completes, you will see a list of categories with the number of issues found in each.

You may click on the category name to see more details on what’s been detected in it.

Uncheck any items you don’t want removed (if there are such items) and click on ‘Resolve’.

Open Duplicate File Finder by going to All Tools -> Disk Tools.

Select the drives you want to search, the duplicate types and set other search criteria by clicking ‘Next’ to go through the available options.

When the search completes, you will see a list of all detected file duplicates divided into groups (each group highlighted with color).

You can look through the duplicates and check the copies you want deleted one by one.

When done, click the Search button.

However, the easier alternative is to click on ‘Options & Settings’ in the left-side menu and choose an option that will let you select duplicates in batches.

Or you can click the arrow on the ‘Select’ button below the list and choose an option from the drop-down menu that appears.

When done selecting, click the ‘Delete Selected Files’ button below the list, or click the arrow on this button and choose how you want the duplicates deleted.

The Clean Up tab gives you quick access to all BoostSpeed features related to system cleanup. Let’s take a look at your options displayed on this screen left to right:

In the first column, you can select the drives you’d like to clean, then choose the tool you want to use for cleanup. Selected drives are highlighted in green with the green checkmark at the top-right.

The second column provides quick access to tools designed for cleaning and tweaking your Windows registry and system folder

Free up even more space using the third column: here you can uninstall unused software, including apps that are hard to remove or may leave files behind.

The fourth column lists BoostSpeed tools that can help clear disk space. Most of these are already linked to from the previous columns, but they are still listed here for your convenience.

The Optimize tab gives you the tools and options you need to ensure the most efficient and productive Windows operation.

In the first column, you can select drives to defragment and click the button to launch defragmentation. If using Windows 10, you can also run version-specific optimization by clicking the Windows 10 Protector link here.

The second column gives you quick access to task-specific modes you can enable to boost your Windows for whatever you are doing at the moment. You can turn on Game Mode when you want to play computer games, Office Mode for working with documents and productivity apps, Economy Mode to save battery power, or a Custom Mode that you set up yourself. Click the gear icon next to the column header to customize modes.

The third column lets you review current resource statistics and enable real-time speedup tools: Memory and Processor Optimization, Auto Defrag, Disk Priority Manager and Desktop Protection. Each of these tools optimizes resource consumption and ensures the best speed for the applications that are active at the moment. We recommend keeping these tools enabled at all times to help things run faster on your PC.

Right below the mode switcher, you will find additional tools for optimizing your OS. You can run additional Windows tune-up using the Maintain Windows feature, optimize system tasks or sort through and disable auto-startup items.

The Protect tab helps you secure personal data and activity history saved on your computer. Traces of your credit card and other financial info, passwords stored openly in files, history of website visits, video views and other data you may want to keep private is actually quite easy to retrieve from your PC, if it ever gets in the wrong hands. We recommend running a scan for privacy traces and cleaning them up on a regular basis (from once a week to once a day, depending on how heavily you use your PC).

On the left side, you see the four areas that can be checked for privacy traces. If you’d like to have one or more of them ignored during scans, you can uncheck the ‘Include category’ box next to it to disable it.

Сlick the ‘Scan now’ button below the category list to launch a quick scan for privacy traces.

When the scan completes, review the results by clicking the ‘Check Details’ link next to each category, and remove all traces to protect your privacy. If needed, you will be able to exclude some of the detected items from the cleanup by simply unchecking the boxes next to them.

When done, just click the ‘Resolve all items button to get all of those privacy traces removed and your personal data protected.

On the right, you get to control your web browser and protect it from unauthorized changes using the Browser Protection tool. Just enable the tool by flipping the switch here.

Right below this feature, you see some recommended tools that help protect your confidential files and guard your Windows system from hackers.

Note

The tools you see recommended under the Clean Up, Optimize and Protect tabs can also be found under the All Tools tab: that’s where you can quickly access any tool you need without having to look for it under different tabs.

When running maintenance or optimization on your computer, it is important to be able to see the results you are getting. The Reports tab gives you just that, as well as lets you see when maintenance may be needed.

On the left side of the screen you can monitor current resource use statistics. This provides a great overview of how your system is handling all the tasks and applications that are currently running on it. If you see extremely high CPU, disk, network or memory loads, you will know that something might be wrong and will be able to take action by using the Clean Up and Optimize tabs.

On the right side you see a table that lists reports created after every operation. You see the report name, the name of the tool that created it and the date when the operation ran. Filters above the table let you search for specific reports by creation time and tool name. Click on a report in the table to select it, then click the ‘View report’ button below the table to view it. Use the ‘Delete’ button to delete all reports ever created or just the reports listed above (the ones that match your search filters): you can select the option you want from the drop-down menu that opens when you click on the ‘Delete’ button arrow.

To schedule tasks, click on the clock icon at the bottom-right of the main program window.

A window will open on the ‘Disk Defrag’ tab, where you can set up a schedule for automatic defragmentation of your computer drives.

Choose how often you would like to run defragmentation and which drives you’d like BoostSpeed to defragment automatically.

You can also enable other options here to prevent defrags from interfering with your PC use. Set BoostSpeed to create a report after every automatic defrag, if you’d like. You will be able to see brief statistics on previous defrags right here below all options.

The ‘My Scanner’ option in scheduler settings lets you set up automatic scans for actionable items under Disk Space, Stability, Performance, Disk Defrag, Privacy, Internet Speed and Windows 10 Tweaks – the functionality that you run manually using the My Scanner tab in BoostSpeed’s main window. Having BoostSpeed run these tasks automatically on a regular basis frees up your time and helps ensure smooth PC performance without requiring you to do anything manually.

To access My Scanner schedule settings, click on the clock icon at the bottom-right of the main program window.

Select the categories you want included in the regular scan and repair (you can click the arrow next to category name and select specific subcategories only, if you like).

Now specify the time that’s convenient for running maintenance. It’s best to set a time when your PC is usually on, but you are not using it very heavily. Click OK when done.

Note

The My Scanner schedule includes options for running Disk Defrag and Privacy scans, which can also be set up separately from the respective tabs in the Scheduler’s left-side menu.

In addition to junk file cleanup and performance optimization, you can have BoostSpeed run regular cleanups of privacy traces using the ‘Protect’ option in scheduler settings.

To access privacy cleanup scheduling options, click on the clock icon at the bottom-right of the main program window.

Just like you did when scheduling My Scanner, here you can click on the arrow next to the word ‘Privacy’ to expand the list of subcategories, and check or uncheck them as needed. Then choose the frequency and convenient time for your regular cleanups and click OK when done.

Having traces of your private data, including credit card and banking info, cleared from various locations on your PC helps ensure that this information will never get in the wrong hands.

To access BoostSpeed Settings, click on the gear icon at the bottom-right of the main program window.

This will open the Settings window on the General tab.

Here you can set the program to launch on PC startup to ensure that it monitors performance and runs optimization in the background as needed. You can also choose which notifications BoostSpeed displays and switch BoostSpeed scanners into advanced mode by enabling system-critical categories here.

This is also where you tell BoostSpeed whether you want browser cookies deleted on every cleanup. Keep this box unchecked if you want to keep the cookies and prevent various sites from requiring you to re-log in every time you visit them.

The View menu lets you customize the program’s appearance.

To access the View settings, click the gear icon at the bottom-right of the main program window. Then select the ‘View’ tab from the left-side pane.

There are 3 sub-sections under View, which let you customize the program’s general appearance, as well as the appearance of the Duplicate File Finder and File Recovery tools.

In the View settings for Duplicate File Finder you can set whether and how you want to preview detected duplicates, and if you’d like to include hidden folders in the search.

Computer screens may have different resolution, and BoostSpeed allows adjusting the size of interface text and elements to better fit the resolution on your PC.

The other options in the General view settings let you choose how CPU temperature should be displayed and whether heavy resource consumers should be marked in red.

The View settings for File Recovery let you set whether removable drives and SSDs should be displayed and available to the tool. You can also choose if you want to preview recoverable files and which files should not be previewed.

BoostSpeed lets you integrate some of its features and options into various system menus. This allows you to right-click on items and run BoostSpeed operations on them without having to actually open BoostSpeed. Go to the ‘Integration’ tab to do that.

To open Settings, click on the gear icon at the bottom-right of the main program window.

For instance, if you choose to integrate Disk Defrag into context menus, you will then be able to right-click on a folder in File Explorer and defragment that folder. You can also set Disk Defrag as your default defragmenter, add the “Unlock File”, “Recover Files” and “Shred Files” options to drive and Recycle Bin menus. The integration is seamless, but is easy to undo anytime you want.

When running tasks or monitoring system status, BoostSpeed shows notifications in your system tray (bottom-right corner of your computer screen).

You can disable notifications by checking the ‘Don’t show this again’ box on the popup message, or do it in the settings.

The Notifications section in program settings is where you can choose which notifications you want to see in the tray.

BoostSpeed’s scanners and some tools have Ignore Lists you can add objects to when you want them excluded from scans and cleanups.

When working with each of these tools, you have the option to add items to exclusions as you go. However, you may find it convenient to handle the Ignore Lists from the program’s main Settings window, as it lets you see all of the exclusions you have set or can set.

Under Ignore Lists you see the sub-sections for Scanners (the features you use under the My Scanner tab in BoostSpeed’s main window), Disk Defrag, Duplicate File Finder and File Recovery. Click through them and follow the on-screen instructions to add or remove items.

Additionally, BoostSpeed lets you customize the way it handles files and set additional options for various tools and features.

You can have the program wipe junk files being deleted to prevent their recovery. You can also specify regular folders that you want cleared during cleanups (just make sure none of their contents are important, as they will be permanently deleted).

Some tools use algorithms that can be further customized and fine-tuned to fit your individual needs: just click the tool in the left-side pane and make your selections.

Scroll down to the bottom of the left-side pane to see the settings for Cat Mode and Rescue Center (covered earlier in this Guide).

The last option is ‘Language’, which lets you choose the interface language for BoostSpeed.

When done adjusting settings, be sure to click the OK button to apply the changes.

Many of the questions you may have regarding Auslogics products have already been answered in the FAQ section on www.auslogics.com.

The Support section on the Auslogics website also offers a way to retrieve a lost license code, request a refund, download product manuals and more.

Should you have any questions that are not answered on the website, you can ask Auslogics experts using the ‘Ask a Question’ tab in BoostSpeed, or email our dedicated customer support team 24/7 at support@auslogics.com

Our mailbox is monitored and emails are answered 24/7, and we try to respond to all inquiries within 24 to 48 hours