There are a number of Mac OS maintenance applications that promise to help you with various tasks. We'll take a quick look at a few of them here.
Onyx
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Onyx is free software. It's the only one of this group that includes Cocktail
Cocktail is $14.95, the freely downloadable demo is apparently limited in some features, though it wasn't clear to me just what those limitations are. Coctail controls preferences under its "Interface" tab. Like Xupport, the Login section includes a Kiosk mode which I did not test. The Misc. section includes the ability to set the screenshot file format; I didn't find that in the other utilities. It includes setting MTU and TCP window sizes under Network. It has control of locked files and the usual cleaning of logs and caches under "Files". "System" lets you run the system cron jobs, rebuild the ocate and whatis databases as well as Launch Services, empty the trash and so on. "Disks" can enable or disable journaling, repair permissions and set the power saving Spindown times.
Xupport
Xupport is $19.90. The free download seems to be time limited, but I don't know when it expires. Xupport has a large number of preference items under "Settings" (but not as many as Onyx). Like Cocktail, it includes control of some TCP settings and adds control of virtual memory files. Xupport includes a "Backup" utility that can clone a bootable disk or create an image for Apple Software Restore. The "Browser" tab is a Finder-like file browser; I really don't see the point of that. The "Unix" tab displays man pages, and "Info" is a convenient overview of your machine's hardware and software.
System/Disk Utilities at Apple for more.
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