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
Before-and-after deltas
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
No blind service disabling

Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC −18% background load 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.

Findings grouped by impact
Every result names what it touches
Registry cleaning is not a feature

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 and a way back.

The Undo Center records what changed, when it changed, and why. Restore an individual setting instead of trying to remember which optimizer modified the machine.

Change history with reasons
Individual restore controls
No silent batch mutation

Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC 12 restore points ready 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 Torque, 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 sees exactly what the window shows. Its security scan researches every background process, monitoring software included, and names what it finds.

Wait-chain analysis, affinity, every detail column
Its own Ask assistant and its own scans
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.

The dashboard keeps the proposed action in context. 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

Suggestion 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.

Measure

Compare the relevant reading after the change.

Revert

Keep the original state available in the Undo Center.

04 Early access

Put the machine back under your control.

Early access is rolling out in small batches. We will only email you when it is your turn.