Every feature in BRUTAL Optimizer

Process + service trim — kills background bloat that eats CPU and I/O. Transient, nothing destructive.

IFEO + MMCSS CPU priority FREE — hands your foreground app real scheduler priority, not a placebo flag.

Ultimate Performance power plan — flips the active plan to Ultimate Performance and saves the old GUID so undo actually works.

GameMode + scheduler — tunes the Windows scheduler toward foreground work.

Memory + virtual RAM FREE — paging and working-set tuning, tier-aware. This is not a "RAM cleaner" that frees memory Windows wanted anyway.

Timer resolution + HPET — drops the system timer to 0.5ms for tighter scheduling. bcdedit changes are stored as reverse commands.

System debloat + latency — core unparking, C-state and audio-latency tuning, telemetry off.

CPU scheduling & turbo policy PRO — turbo policy, frequency scaling and thread-quantum policy.

FPS overlay FREE — frame-time, 1% lows, live CPU/GPU/RAM, network HUD. It reads frame counts from Windows' own display statistics (the D3DKMT graphics API) instead of hooking DirectX, so it stays anti-cheat safe against EAC, Vanguard, and BattlEye.

Input-lag optimizer FREE — mouse accel off, USB selective-suspend off, HID buffer and DPC latency tuning.

GPU tweaks (NVIDIA/AMD/Intel) FREE — vendor-correct registry settings. No blind NVAPI writes that brick a driver.

GPU deep tuning FREE — MSI mode, shader cache, flip-model, per-vendor deep tweaks.

DWM + display latency — compositor and present-path tuning.

Emulator performance tuning FREE — IFEO, GPU, DWM, VM, memory, and network tuning for Android emulators.

Per-game profiles PRO — tier-aware in-game and network settings for popular titles.

Disk Cleaner — an allow-list of junk locations behind a 24-hour age gate. It re-measures free space after the wipe and shows verified freed bytes, not an optimistic guess.

Disk Analyzer — recursive treemap, top large files, and a SHA-256 duplicate finder for anything 1MB and up.

Drive Health — SMART, wear %, temperature, power-on hours. TRIM/ReTrim on SSDs. defrag.exe only on a confirmed spinning HDD, gated by media type.

FREE Deleted File Restore — two places it can get files back from: what your Recycle Bin still holds whole, including files Explorer can't show you because their index record is gone — and deleted files on drives formatted exFAT, NTFS or FAT32, read straight off the drive. Nothing is listed on the strength of a filesystem record: we read the blocks the record points at, and where a format stores its own checksums (PNG, ZIP, Office documents) we recompute them, so a file marked Verified is one we checked rather than one something mentioned. Files we find but can't return are shown too, with the reason. On NTFS the deleted file’s record survives intact, which is exactly why we don’t trust it: on an SSD that record routinely describes bytes the drive has already thrown away, so we read the blocks before listing anything. Files broken into pieces, compressed or encrypted are refused rather than stitched back together wrongly. FAT32 gives up more than the others when a file is deleted — it throws away the map of where the file continued, and overwrites the first letter of its name — so there we tell you the first letter is unknown instead of guessing at it. It doesn’t carve fragments out of free space, so “nothing found” is still a real and common answer.

NVMe + storage optimizer FREE — NVMe APST handling, high-priority I/O, NTFS tuning.

Install Residue — finds the folders installers leave behind and clears them to the Recycle Bin.

Network stack (TCP) — TCP autotuning level, congestion provider, and per-adapter stack settings. Fully undoable.

Network adapter deep FREE — per-adapter interrupt moderation, flow control, and LSO disable.

Traceroute + bottleneck detection — real ICMP traceroute with hop classification: local, ISP, or international transit.

Bufferbloat grade — A–F latency-under-load score using the saturated up/down method.

DNS benchmark — times Cloudflare, Google, Quad9 and the rest, then applies the fastest to your active adapter in one click.

Game-server ping — real TCP latency to game regions and CDN edges, color-coded.

Smart Route game relay ULTRA — a standard WireGuard relay for your game traffic that never touches the game — no injection, no kernel driver of ours. It reroutes only when it measures a genuinely faster path than your ISP, and stays direct when it can't help. Publishers can see relayed traffic and set their own rules, so kernel-anti-cheat titles are never routed unless you say so. How it works.

Driver scanner FREE — enumerates installed drivers and checks Windows Update for newer ones.

Automatic driver updates PRO — installs through the Windows Update API, or from the Microsoft Update Catalog when Windows Update only offers a manual download; a restore point is attempted first. NVIDIA GPU drivers are reported only — we do not download or run vendor installers.

App updates — installed-app inventory with update detection and install through the winget CLI.

System repair — runs SFC /scannow and DISM /RestoreHealth with live streamed output.

Benchmark — before/after snapshot of RAM, CPU, processes, disk I/O, and context switches.

Privacy center — 16 telemetry, ad, and tracking registry toggles across HKLM/HKCU, grouped General / Telemetry / Tracking & ads / Windows AI, each one revertible to the Windows default. Newer toggles include Windows Recall (AI snapshots) blocking and Edge telemetry; caution items like location and Recall are flagged. This page also hosts the DNS ad/tracker/malware blocking and encrypted-DNS toggle — see Security & privacy.

Startup manager — enable or disable other apps' startup entries using Task Manager-compatible blobs. It never deletes the entry.

Process rules — per-app priority, CPU affinity, and EcoQoS rules, reapplied every Guardian cycle.

App optimizer FREE — Discord/Steam/Epic/Spotify cache cleanup, GPU routing, and voice QoS.

Security Center FREE auto-maintenance Pro — an honest wrapper over the Defender already in Windows. Live protection posture (real-time status, definition age, last scan, tamper protection, behaviour monitoring, third-party AV present), one-click Quick / Full / Folder scans, real threat history and Defender’s quarantine list. Restoring a quarantined file is done in Windows Security, next to the detection details; we do not offer a definition-update button because Windows Update already delivers those several times a day. Five reversible "strengthen Defender" toggles — cloud protection, sample submission, block PUA, Controlled Folder Access and Network Protection (both started in safe Audit mode) — each remembers its prior value so Undo is exact. Pro adds Guardian auto-maintenance (an idle Defender quick scan, never while you are gaming).

System Integrity Audit FREE baseline diff Pro — a native, heuristic persistence audit using files-at-rest and WMI metadata only. Ten checks for the places malware hides — WMI persistence, suspicious Run-key autoruns and scheduled tasks, IFEO/Winlogon/AppInit hijacks, hosts and proxy/PAC redirects, force-installed browser extensions, self-injected root certificates, services run from temp, process masquerade. Most fixes are one click and ride the same signed-backup Undo as the optimizer; risky items (like root-cert removal) are detect-only with manual guidance. Pro adds a daily persistence-baseline diff that alerts only on NEW items.

DNS ad, tracker & malware blocking FREE — system-wide blocking across every browser and app by switching the active adapter to a filtering DNS resolver (AdGuard); an optional adult-content category switches to the Family resolver. Lives in the Privacy Center. There's no giant blocklist file to choke Windows and nothing for antivirus to lock — turning it off restores the captured DNS configuration with an automatic-DNS fallback. A separate encrypted-DNS (DoH) toggle is offered too.

Expanded Privacy Center FREE — now 16 reversible Windows privacy/telemetry toggles grouped General / Telemetry / Tracking & ads / Windows AI, including Windows Recall blocking and Edge telemetry. Each reverts to the captured Windows default.

Smart Optimize FREE — selects the modules matched to your hardware tier, after a confirmation stating how many are flagged Caution. System-wide power, network, display, storage, USB, GPU, timer and Windows-security changes remain explicit Caution or Advanced choices. Run All requires a separate warning confirmation, attempts a restore point, and needs a valid rollback manifest for every undoable module; transient cleanup and process actions are disclosed as non-reversible.

Hardware monitor — live CPU/GPU/RAM/disk/network sensors via performance counters and trusted vendor libraries where available.

Home dashboard — real-time CPU/GPU/RAM and hook-free display presentation statistics, with an honest “No game” state when idle.

Guardian PRO — a background service that validates the detected executable against its installed path before applying a process profile, then reverts transient tuning when the process closes.