We're just a few weeks away from the official debut of Windows 11, and every developer of tools to TweakPower is working at full speed to adapt their apps to Microsoft's new release. Today it's TweakPower's turn, a project by Kurt Zimmerman that has long helped us optimize and clean Windows with ease. Its latest build is 100 percent compatible with Windows 11, and here's what we found.
Beyond Microsoft's technical decisions, Windows 11 shares many points with its predecessor, and we don't expect compatibility scares. Naturally, developers are working against the clock to update their builds and make sure everything is in order for the upcoming October 5. That includes programs to optimize and clean Windows 11, because if there's one thing we're sure of, it's that we'll be leading the operating system by the hand as always.
Recently we talked about Windows 11 Manager, a tool with some focus on Windows customization, backed by a good number of advanced options. In that same territory we find TweakPower, developed by Kurt Zimmerman, which just received an update to version 2.0, specially prepared to optimize and clean Windows 11.
How to optimize and clean Windows 11 with TweakPower
Although it comes in portable editions for 32 and 64 bits, I recommend using the conventional installer of TweakPower, since its Spanish translation is a bit more complete. The Cleaning section focuses on detected browsers, the recycle bin, temporaries (system and internet), temporary application data, and any stored cookies. However, that's the so-called "simple cleaning". The "default cleaning" is actually the advanced mode, with multiple additional entries to purge all digital junk.
The Windows and System sections mainly serve as shortcuts or alternative versions of the same commands we find in Control Panel. For example, inside System we find "Power Options", which lets us change the energy profile. The performance index is a clone of the old scoring system in previous versions of Windows, and Privacy presents all data control and collection options in one place.
Finally, the section to optimize Windows 11 includes classic options such as faster app shutdown, a shorter wait time for hung processes, appearance changes, icon cache optimization, and several settings aimed at SSDs, like disabling SuperFetch and defragmentation.
I imagine not all of these changes are available or valid in Windows 11. That's actually the main flaw: presenting tricks and options that have already been declared obsolete. The other is its translation, with a bit of Spanish, a bit of English, and occasionally some German slipping in. Anyway, if you're interested in the idea of optimizing and cleaning Windows 11, you should consider TweakPower.
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