SpeedUpMyPC ($29.95) offers several distinctive status charts. Users can view live CPU, memory, and Internet usage charts with time lines in minutes or hours. The utility also lets you test your connection speed and optimize your Internet settings. The handy start-up program optimizer lets you easily weed out memory-hogging applications that launch when Windows starts up, and the crash recovery wizard can terminate nonresponsive applications. As with Memory Optimizer, you can assign a higher CPU priority to running applications. SpeedUpMyPC's crash-recovery function successfully cleaned our system after our test crash. The online help is comprehensive, but it's viewable only in Adobe Acrobat Reader.