TinkerTool System 1.87

TinkerTool System 1.87 provides you with an invaluable maintenance tool for for the Macintosh platform, which allows you to change advanced operating system settings and offers a wide variety of maintenance features. It strictly complies with the software guidelines for Mac OS X, and also uses Apple's official instructions and recommendations for the resolution of certain system problems.

TinkerTool System is very different from other maintenance applications because it never uses any scripts and is fully integrated into the security architecture of Mac OS X. For example, it never asks for your password itself but lets Mac OS X do this when necessary, always verifying whether an operation you have selected is allowed to be performed with your current user credentials or not.

Together with its sister program TinkerTool which is available at no charge, TinkerTool System is a perfect substitute for the following types of maintenance applications:

• Cache and font cache cleaners,
• Tools to access hidden preference settings,
• Applications to make objects invisible in the Finder,
• Programs which edit type/creator codes,
• Internet browser privacy protection tools,
• Network tuning applications,
• Programs to control the Macintosh startup chime,
• Tools to remove international language support files,
• Log file browsers,
• Application deinstallers,
• Service menu control programs,
• and many others

Major Features:

1. Clear the cache of the directory services client
2. Repair the printer subsystem of Mac OS X (only necessary in Panther)
3. Clean up cache files of the Internet browsers Safari 2, Internet Explorer®, Netscape® Navigator 9, FireFox, OmniWeb 5, Camino, Opera 9, iCab 4, Shiira 1, or Flock
4. Clean up cache files for the current user
5. Clean up cache files for the whole system
6. Clean up cache files for device drivers and kernel extensions
7. Clean the font cache files
8. Remove archived copies of system log files
9. Remove Finder information files (.DS_Store files)
10. Remove resource fork emulation files ("dot underscore" files)
11. Removes hidden Macintosh support files from volumes that should be given to users of third-party operating systems
12. Clean up temporary print files
13. Remove core dump files
14. Force-delete single files or empty folders
15. Enforce emptying of the Trash if the Finder is unable to do this
16. Destroy resource forks of files
17. Let Mac OS X analyze the contents of unknown files
18. Modify Type and Creator codes of files
19. Mark files or folders as visible or invisible for the Finder
20. Restore the alias for accessing the Desktop of Classic from Mac OS X (not necessary in Leopard)
21. Create symbolic links
22. Set or unset locks for a large number of files
23. Set the energy saver options for hard disks to specified values
24. Disable the Sudden Motion Sensor
25. Prevent portable computers from automatically waking when the display lid is opened (Tiger or later)
26. Allow the automatic addition of removable disk volumes even if no user is logged in (Tiger or later)
27. Prevent that certain hard drive volumes are automatically activated by Mac OS X (Tiger or later)
28. Tune the network options, including TCP and UDP receive window sizes, TCP transmit window size, and socket buffer size (not necessary in Leopard)
29. Set the Maximum Transfer Unit for non-Ethernet cards
30. Enable Quartz Extreme for a wider range of graphics cards (Panther only)
31. Set the scaling factor (physical display resolution) for the screen (Tiger or later) (*)
32. Enable or disable file system journaling for Mac OS X Extended volumes
33. Enable or disable Spotlight (Tiger only)
34. Remove or reindex Spotlight metadata stores (Tiger or later)
35. View storage statistics for Spotlight metadata stores (Tiger or later)
36. Enforce diagnostic or safe startup mode for the operating system
37. Make the system use only one processor or a limited amount of memory for diagnostic purposes
38. Let the system emulate the programmer's switch on systems not equipped with that switch
39. Let the system log kernel panic messages directly to screen in case the automatic panic log recovery doesn't work
40. Change the base system language effective during startup and login without having to reinstall the system (*)
41. Disable the startup chime.
42. Set preferences for display of the login window
43. Add text messages to the login window
44. Display additional status information in the login window (Tiger or later)
45. Select the background image for the login screen (Tiger or later)
46. Remove installed language packages from any folder or volume
47. Verify the integrity of a user's preferences files (not only checking the syntax of "plist" files, but the actual structure of the preferences themselves)
48. Delete preferences files no longer in use for a certain period of time
49. Repair the damaged display of System Preferences (Tiger or later)
50. Repair the Help Viewer application
51. Rebuild the Launch Services database
52. Repair the translation feature of the Finder
53. Restore the translation settings for your private home folder in case you have updated from Mac OS X 10.1 or have deleted, then recreated some folders
54. Remove all entries for Recent Items in all applications
55. Verify a user's Login Items
56. Show extended user account information
57. Assist in the deinstallation of applications which have been installed by a drag-and-drop operation
58. Deinstall widgets, screen savers, preference panes, QuickTime plug-ins, or Internet plug-ins which have been added to the system
59. Remove code support for unneeded processor architectures in universal applications or other software components
60. Remove or restore entries in the Services menu of Mac OS X
61. Enable or disable support for Access Control Lists on HFS volumes (Tiger or later)
62. Create and modify Access Control Lists for file system objects (Tiger or later)
63. Display the effective permissions for specific users on file system objects (Tiger or later)
64. Display extended hardware and manufacturing information for the computer
65. Access more than 48 log files maintained by Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server (more than 80 in Leopard)
66. Run the periodic system maintenance scripts by simply pressing a button
67. Reset the permission settings of Mac OS X system files (*)
68. Repeat the installation step "Optimizing System Performance" at any time