Capability field guide

Tools for control, not theater.

Tempered helps you find performance friction, decide what deserves attention, and keep a return path. Nothing here depends on a red warning badge or an invented health score.

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MODULE INDEX6 MODULES

01Advisor 02Dashboard 03Processes 04Scans 05Undo Center 06Task Manager

Changes require approval

Ask in plain language

Advisor

A direct answer, tied to the machine in front of you.

Describe what feels slow. Tempered reads the relevant signals, explains the likely cause, and proposes a reviewable next step — without pretending every symptom needs a tweak.

Uses live readings and Windows state
Separates observation from recommendation
Never applies a change from chat alone

Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC Why does startup drag? Observed · Reviewable

See the actual load

Dashboard

The readings that matter, without a health score.

CPU, memory, GPU, disk, uptime, temperatures, and the processes behind the load are presented as measurements — not a vague percentage designed to manufacture urgency.

Live hardware readings
Every change logged, old and new value
This week card, counted from Tempered's own records
No invented issue count

Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC 4.6 GB working set Observed · Reviewable

Control what is running

Processes

Understand a process before you suspend it.

Tempered classifies running applications, shows their resource cost, and identifies safe background candidates. Game Mode narrows the field without deleting services or stripping Windows apart.

Plain-language process descriptions
Safe suspend and restore paths
Process Watch logs what appears while it runs (Torque)
No blind service disabling

Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC Classified: safe to suspend Observed · Reviewable

Inspect before acting

Scans

Focused checks for startup, storage, and settings.

Scans look for explainable performance friction: heavy startup items, avoidable storage pressure, and Windows settings that conflict with the way the PC is used. The Security & malware scan, free three times a month, checks the signature of everything set to run, reads your firewall and UAC posture, and runs a real Windows Defender scan.

Findings rated by impact
Every result names what it touches
Registry cleaning is not a feature — how that differs from CCleaner

Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC 6 reviewable findings Observed · Reviewable

Keep the return path

Undo Center

Every approved change leaves a record. Settings leave a way back.

The Undo Center records what changed, when, and the value before. Restore an individual setting instead of trying to remember which optimizer modified the machine. Ending a process, uninstalling an app, and a junk clean are one-way: they stay on record with no undo, and the FAQ lists the actions Tempered cannot put back.

Change history with previous values
Individual revert controls
No silent batch mutation

Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC 12 changes ready to revert Observed · Reviewable

See what Windows hides

Task Manager

A full task manager in its own window, with its own judgment.

Task Manager (Tempered), included with the Torque plan, opens as its own app — taskbar icon, desktop shortcut — with per-process detail Windows' own tool doesn't show, a Performance pane for every real disk, adapter, and GPU, and an AI assistant that reads a live digest of the window. Its security scan researches every background process it can see, monitoring software included, and names what it finds. App history is Tempered's own measured record, and the page states the date it started counting.

Wait-chain analysis, affinity, per-process GPU load
Its own Ask assistant and its own scans
What's This? explains a process, service or startup entry
Findings offer guarded one-click actions

Measured on the development bench, not your PC Process table read in ~20 ms Measured · Torque

02 Product evidence

Readings beside the recommendation.

Every proposed action says what it will change. You can see the active load, the process behind it, and the expected change before approving anything.

Live readingsNot a synthetic score

Review queueNothing runs silently

Undo stateReturn path recorded

TEMPERED / DASHBOARD MEASURED STATE

Screenshot of the Tempered dashboard showing live Windows performance readings

Example finding 3 startup items deserve review

03 Change workflow

From observation to undo.

A recommendation is not permission. Tempered keeps those steps separate and records the result.

Observe

Read the current state before naming a fix.

Explain

Show the evidence, expected effect, and boundary.

Approve

Wait for a clear decision from the user.

Record

Log the change with its old and new value.

Revert

Keep the original state available in the Undo Center.

04 Early access

Put the machine back under your control.

Open beta for Windows 10 and 11. The free tier is the full core app, not a trial.