Draft:Red Button (software)

Red Button
	Red Button
Stable release	6.1
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Platform	x86/X64
License	Freeware
Website	https://pothos.info/?p=redbutton

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Red Button is a closed-source utility for optimizing and cleaning 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, developed by Pothos.^[1]

Description

This utility provides a tool for optimizing and cleaning Windows family operating systems. Its features include cleaning the system from junk, thus reducing disk space, changing hidden system settings, increasing the speed and loading of programs/systems, scanning and fixing errors in the system registry, improving the performance of game programs, removing/hiding built-in Windows components, terminating dynamic libraries that are not currently in use.The entire mechanism of the system optimization program is programmed in a single button, whose actions can be configured in the utility's parameters. Red Button also supports command line options.

The following operating systems are currently supported: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 (x86), Windows 10 (x86), including 32- and 64-bit editions.

Opportunities

Disk Cleanup

System tab System

Scan results.
Installers of downloaded and installed program files.
Downloaded and installed program files.
Files discarded by Windows Update.
Memory dumps.
Pre-selection files.
List of recent documents.
Recycle Bin.
The top of the Start Menu.
Temporary files.
Thumbnails.
Windows Logs.

The “Applications” tab

Allows you to remove data collected by various applications installed on your system, including Adobe Flash Player, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome.

The “Templates" tab

Empty folders. (The latest version of the program doesn't understand links (Juncti), considering them empty directories and deleting them, which consequently breaks half of the Windows 7-10 folder structure, making the system inoperable).

Outdated shortcuts.
Empty files.
Backups of various file extensions.
Logs.
Error reports.
Backups.
Temporary files.

The “Other” tab

Allows deleting any files and folders specified by the user. When specifying files to delete, both paths (“Add File”, “Add Folder”) and masks (“Add Mask”) can be used.

Registry cleaning

"Error" tab

ActiveX and Class.
Applications.
Application paths.
File extensions.
Fonts.
Installed applications.
Help files.
Missing shared DLLs.
MUI cache.
Missing applications.
Autoloading.
Event sounds.
Organizing Start menu.
Uninstalling programs.

"History" tab

Open/Save dialogs.
DirectX.
Explorer (StreamMRU/UserAssist).
Paint.
Registry Editor.
Remote Desktop Connection.
WordPad.

OS Components

Uninstall numerous built-in Windows components.

Performance Tuning

Automatically terminate hung applications, services, and DLLs from memory.
Turn off Windows automatic updates.
Turn off the Windows firewall.
Turn off POSIX subsystems.
And much more.

Links

Red Button Awards and Press Reviews

References

^ "Red Button - Pothos". pothos.info. Archived from the original on 2024-05-31. Retrieved 2025-02-09.

[1] "Red Button - Pothos". pothos.info. Archived from the original on 2024-05-31. Retrieved 2025-02-09.

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