8Smoker Pro

8Smoker Pro is a software application which was developed in order to aid Windows 8 users to optimize the manner in which their PC runs, by tweaking a long list settings, with support for password protecting.

The installation process is a piece of cake, as it does not bring any surprises and it does not take longer than a few moments. After completing it, you come across a pretty clean and minimal interface, as it only consists of several buttons and all options are going to be opened in multiple windows.

In addition to that, comprehensive Help contents are supported, which means that both power and novice users can find their way around it, without encountering any issues.

First and foremost, 8Smoker Pro helps you create a restore point, so that you can easily recover your settings if you made a mistake. Moreover, a master password can be set with ease, thus making sure that only you and other authorized people have access to this utility.

To be more accurate, you can disable certain Internet Explorer options, such as favorites, the Help menu, navigation buttons, view source, printing and the context menu, add items to the Startup list, clear icon cache, optimize mouse refresh rate and use maximal critical worker threads.

In addition to that, you can take advantage of a disk cleaner, search invalid DLLs, view information about the BIOS, modem, monitor, on-board devices, operating system and possible video resolutions, and remove hotfixes.

Last but not least, you can set up various security settings, such as locking USB and DVD drives, disabling CD burning, Windows Media Center, user account control and error reporting, and add applications to the firewall.

8Smoker Pro runs without affecting the computer’s performance as CPU and memory usage is quite low at all times. The environment is user-friendly and feature-rich, the response time is good and our tests did not register any errors, hangs or freezes.

Taking all of this into consideration, we can safely say it is a useful and efficient piece of software, for tweaking multiple Windows 8 features.