Disk Heal is a utility that performs various tweaks to optimize your PC in terms of appearance, security and also performs tweaks for common applications as well. In addition it allows you to fix common errors which are caused by certain viruses as well.
Features
Can’t open your drive just by clicking it? Getting error messages like “Could not find something” or an Open With dialog? Disk Heal fixes these problems in just one click.
Has a virus hidden your files/folders and you cannot unhide it? Use disk heal to fix this problem.
Performs various other tweaks to optimize your pc including:
-Password protect these features
-Enable/Disable Task Manager
-Enable/Disable Folder options
-Enable/Disable the registry editor
-Lock the location of ‘My Documents’
-Enable/Disable Display Properties
-Enable/Disable ‘Search’
-Enable/Disable ‘Run’
-Enable/Disable Control Panel
-Enable/Disable Shutdown
-Enable/Disable CPU Beep
-Enable/Disable CD Auto-run
-Hide/unhide Start->(All) Programs menu
-Enable/Disable the Context menu in My Computer & Desktop
-Enable/Disable My Computer
-Hide/Show ‘Pinned’ items from the Start menu
-Remove ‘Manage’ in My Computer Context Menu
-Change drive icon
-Enable/Disable Clear-Type (Also known as ‘Font smoothing’ Fonts)
-Enable/Disable smooth scrolling
-Hide/Show the left panel from My Computer
-Hide/Show the current user in the Start menu
-Hide/Show the windows version on the Desktop
-Hide/Show windows error messages on startup
-Enable/Disable Auto-complete
-Check if Default Browser
-Lock current home page
-Increase simultaneous downloads to 10
-HideShow Accessibility Options
-HideShow AddRemove programs
-HideShow Console Options
-HideShow DateTime Options
-HideShow Display Options
-HideShow Fax Options
-HideShow Hardware Wizard
-HideShow IR Port Options
-HideShow Regional Options
-HideShow Internet Settings
-HideShow Joystick Options
-HideShow licensing programs
-HideShow KeyboardMouse Options
-HideShow mail Options
-HideShow sound Options
-HideShow dial-up Options
-HideShow network & connectivity Wizard
-HideShow modem Options
-HideShow Netware client Options
-HideShow ODBC options
-HideShow PC card Options
-HideShow port Options
-HideShow power Options
-HideShow scanner and camera Options
-HideShow server manager Wizard
-HideShow speech Options
-HideShow System Properties
-HideShow Telephone Properties
-HideShow TweakUI Properties
-HideShow User Manager Properties
-Hide/Show WSP client options NEW!
-Hide/Show Quicktime preferences NEW!
-Hide/show Norton Live update client NEW!
-Hide/Show Compaq Agent NEW!
Screenshots
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Frequently Asked Questions
Disk Heal is a useful tool that tweaks your PC and fixes common computer problems. Initially it was a program which fixed disk problems that occur after a virus has been removed with a few additional features like changing the icon of a drive. Currently it performs various other tweaks as well.
The entire program was written and tested on Windows XP but based on user feedback and testing, it functions on the following Operating Systems:
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista*
System Requirements:
Windows NT, 2000, XP or Vista*.
Pentium II or equivalent 166Mhz Processor
32MB RAM
Administrator privileges
Troubleshoot
First check if you have administrator privileges and the restrictions weren’t made on purpose. If so your virus is still active, and it keeps recreating the restriction, so use an Anti Virus Program to eradicate the virus and retry the procedure.
Make sure that the path has been typed correctly. If so, the file/folder may have been deleted instead of hidden.
You are probably using the old version of Disk Heal. Download the latest version.
Some anti virus or anti spyware programs prevent Disk Heal from performing its functions as a security measure. To make full use of Disk Heal permission should be granted by the anti spywareAnti Virus programs.
Disk Heal makes changes to the registry, As a security measure these programs flag Disk Heal as Riskware as changes made to the registry could produce adverse results as well. Disk Heal guarantees though that changes made by Disk Heal are purely beneficial.
If you forget the password you can never recover it again. The only option would be to format the drive to use the ‘Security Tweaks’ page again.
Tabctl32.ocx and comdlg32.ocx are required components to run Disk Heal, this is generally installed into the system directory, however a security feature in your computer may prevent installation of the file. You can install it manually by downloading it from here(tabctl32.ocx, comdlg32.ocx) and copying it to your system directory (default: “C:/windows/system32″), Re-launch the application.
Some of the tweaks may not work with Windows Vista, also the above issue may occur due to the User-Access control feature, we recommend disabling the User-Access control feature when using Disk Heal on Vista.
*Vista compatibility is limited to a few features. A future build is currently being developed for full Vista compatibility.
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