Socks is a powerful and flexible tool for troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and customizing Mac OS X. Socks allows you to:
* Troubleshoot odd behavior, crashes, and the "spinning beach ball."
* Maintain data structures relied on by the system/applications to keep them running safely and smoothly.
* Optimize system settings to improve performance, save hard drive space, and conserve RAM.
* Customize your system to better fit your needs.
New Features Since System Optimizer X
* Complete re-design and re-write in Cocoa
* Highly secure execution using a setuid tool
* New highly dynamic configurations system
* New highly dynamic "Queue" feature
* New highly dynamic , multi-entity "Schedule" feature
* Automatic hard restart maintenance
* Live progress updates for most tasks
* Auto-restart
* New "Volumes" feature with fsckhfs volume structure verifying and repairing + more
* New "Spotlight" feature for optimizing and customizing volume settings
* More thorough and highly customizable cache cleaning feature
* New "Preferences" feature checks for, reports, and can remove corrupt preference files
* More thorough and customizable internet optimization feature
* New "Privacy" feature allows for cleaning of many activity records
* New "Interface" feature allows for customization of many hidden Mac OS interface options
* New "Force Empty Trash" feature
* Many, many other new features
* A Universal and more verbose Log for low-level and task output
