TinkerTool System is a professional maintenance tool that allows you to change advanced operating system settings and offers a wide variety of maintenance features.
TinkerTool System is fully compliant with Apple`s security guidelines for Mac OS X. TinkerTool System does not need an installer and does not require special system packages to be installed.
Here are some key features of "TinkerTool System":
· Run the periodic system maintenance scripts by simply pressing a button
· Reset the permission settings of Mac OS X system files (*)
· Repeat the installation step "Optimizing System Performance"
· Clean up cache files of the Internet browsers Safari, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, FireFox, OmniWeb, Camino, Opera version 6, Opera version 7, iCab, and Shiira
· Clean up cache files for the current user
· Clean up cache files for the whole system
· Clean up cache files for device drivers and kernel extensions
· Clean up font cache files
· Remove archived copies of system log files
· Remove Finder information files (.DS_Store files)
· Remove resource fork emulation files ("dot underscore" files)
· Clean up temporary print files
· Remove core dump files
· Force-delete single files or empty folders
· Enforce emptying of the Trash if the Finder is unable to do this
· Restore the localization settings for your private home folder in case you have updated from Mac OS X 10.1 or have deleted, then recreated some folders
· Restore the alias for accessing the Desktop of Classic from Mac OS X
· Create symbolic links
· Set or unset locks for a large number of files
· Set the energy saver options for hard disks to specified values
· Deactivate the Sudden Motion Sensor on new PowerBook systems
· Tune the network options, including MTU size for each network interface, TCP and UDP receive window sizes, and TCP transmit window size
· Enable Quartz Extreme for a wider range of graphics cards
· Enable or disable file system journaling for Mac OS X Extended volumes
· Enforce diagnostic or safe startup mode for the operating system
· Make the system use only one processor or a limited amount of memory for diagnostic purposes
· Let the system emulate the programmer`s switch on systems not equipped with that switch
· Let the system log kernel panic messages directly to screen in case the automatic panic log recovery doesn`t work
· Change the base system language effective during startup and login without having to reinstall the system (*)
· Disable the startup chime
· Set preferences for display of the login window
· Add text messages to the login window
· Remove installed language packages from any folder or volume
· Verify the integrity of user preferences files
· Remove user preferences files which are no longer in use
· Repair the Help Viewer application
· Repair the translation feature of the Finder
· Rebuild the Launch Services database
· Remove all entries for Recent Items in all applications
· Show extended user account information
· Display extended hardware and manufacturing information for the computer
· Access more than 48 log files maintained by Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
Limitations:
· The trial version can be run only 5 times.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added new feature to clean the diagnostic logs of the App Store application.
· Added new feature to clean folder hierarchies from broken aliases.
· Added new privacy feature to remove the Recent Folders entries from the Finder.
· Added support to clean privacy-related items from the web browser of DEVONagent 3.
· The display of system management data for Intel-based Macs was updated to comply with the latest version of the DMTF industry standard.
· Small optimizations in the user interface.
· Added support for integrating the new program TinkerTool Classic Generation 2 for users of Leopard.
· Corrected a problem where crash logs of other applications could not be cleaned when the crashed application had specific name patterns or crashed several times per second.
· Corrected a problem where the date of production was not displayed correctly for particular portable Macs built in 2010 and 2011.
