Ashampoo Internet Accelerator

The operating system provides a series of options which can be used to increase the Internet connection's performance. Unfortunately, these options are quite complicated and inexperienced users may end up causing more harm. Ashampoo Internet Accelerator can analyze your Internet connections and it can determine the optimal configurations for faster and safer browsing. The best part is that all functions are easy to understand. Instead of deciphering the options that Windows provides, you can just click a few buttons on Ashampoo Internet Accelerator's interface and your connection settings will be optimized right away.

You can use the software on Windows XP, as well as 32 or 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It asks for only 10 MB of free disk space and 512 MB of RAM. The setup package is about 5 and a half MB and it takes less than a minute to complete the installation process.

The user interface resembles a cleanup utility. The software's functions are organized on several pages, which can be accessed via navigation buttons, located on the left side of the main window. You can find information regarding your connection's general status on the Overview page, which also displays shortcuts for important optimization tasks and options for enabling a few helpful features.

The software can automatically optimize your system and web browsers for a faster connection speed. You can set it to optimize the system for a specific connection type, optimize the performance settings for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer and more. These settings can be made on the same page, but you can make a wider range of configurations, for the operating system, Internet Explorer and Firefox separately, in different sections of the interface.

A few security features can be found as well, in the last section of the interface. You can check the Windows hosts file for manipulations made by malicious programs. Thus, you can make sure that you won't be redirected to suspicious websites. You can also erase all traces of your browsing history, including temporary files, cookies and others.