FIELDCapability field guide
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.
01Capability index
Each module is designed around a specific Windows performance question. The evidence sits beside the action, and the constraint is part of the interface — not buried in fine print. With Torque, the Developer Hub (off until you turn it on) lets AI tools on the same PC read Tempered's measurements through a read-only local MCP server.
Ask in plain language
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.
Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC
Why does startup drag?Observed · Reviewable
See the actual load
CPU, memory, GPU, disk, uptime, temperatures, and the processes behind the load are presented as measurements — not a vague percentage designed to manufacture urgency.
Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC
4.6 GB working setObserved · Reviewable
Control what is running
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.
Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC
Classified: safe to suspendObserved · Reviewable
Inspect before acting
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.
Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC
6 reviewable findingsObserved · Reviewable
Keep the return path
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.
Illustrative UI pattern — not a reading from your PC
12 changes ready to revertObserved · Reviewable
See what Windows hides
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.
Measured on the development bench, not your PC
Process table read in ~20 msMeasured · Torque
02Product evidence
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.
03Change workflow
A recommendation is not permission. Tempered keeps those steps separate and records the result.
Read the current state before naming a fix.
Show the evidence, expected effect, and boundary.
Wait for a clear decision from the user.
Log the change with its old and new value.
Keep the original state available in the Undo Center.
04Download
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