Context Tools
Control Explorer actions, inspect safe registry-clean candidates, run lightweight Windows tune-up tasks, audit browser hygiene, and make bounded registry edits with preview, automatic backup, and rollback built in.
Mutation is never the first step
Registry cleanup, browser cleanup, search-policy enforcement, and modular edits show the proposed change first. Applied changes create a local backup before destructive state is changed.
No generic cleaner guessing
Missing startup executables can be removed after review. Browser passwords, autofill, and bookmarks are preserved. Ambiguous uninstall records and unknown handlers remain review-only.
Current modules
| Module | Current function | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| ☑ Context Menu | Live state for compatible Explorer verbs, 7-Zip same-name extraction, Admin PowerShell Here, enable/disable, repair, Explorer restart. | Machine-scope and handler-backed entries remain read-only unless explicitly supported. |
| ☑ Registry Clean | Scans startup entries for missing executables and reports stale uninstall metadata for review. | Only known-safe startup candidates are actionable automatically. Ambiguous records are review-only. |
| ☑ Tune-Up | Reports user temp usage, clears unlocked user temp files after explicit confirmation, inventories startup entries, and reports Explorer menu state. | No service disabling, driver removal, global cache purge, or automatic startup suppression. |
| ☑ Browser & Web Hygiene | Audits Chrome, Edge, and Brave profiles for cache, cookies/history presence, extension permissions, password-store presence, and selectable stale-data cleanup. Includes guided or policy-enforced search-engine choice. | Never reads/decrypts passwords. Browser must be closed for cleanup. Passwords, autofill, and bookmarks are preserved by default. |
| ☑ Modular Editor | Inspect, set, or remove registry values in approved Windows software/class scopes with typed values. | Blocked outside the default approved roots; preview and backup happen before apply. |
| ☑ Backup + Rollback | Exports affected registry branches and writes JSON manifests. Selected browser data is copied to a separate local backup before deletion. | Restores only the recorded backup set selected by the user. |
Browser hygiene model
Cache, cookies, history, and site storage are separate choices. Clintware refuses profile cleanup while the target browser is running and backs up selected profile files first.
Installed extension manifests are checked for broad all-site access and security-sensitive capabilities such as proxy, debugger, management, native messaging, privacy, and blocking web requests. Findings are review signals, not automatic removals.
Google is the quality default. Brave Search is the privacy / independent-index alternative, with DuckDuckGo and Startpage also available. Guided mode opens native browser settings; enforced mode uses browser policy and warns before making the browser appear managed.
Clintware detects only whether a browser password store exists. It never opens, decrypts, exports, enumerates, or transmits saved credentials. Credential-health checks should stay with the browser or password-manager provider's supported breach-check workflow.
Next hygiene surfaces
The same local-first model extends naturally to stale notification/site permissions, orphaned service workers, suspicious or unpacked extensions, homepage/search hijack detection, browser version posture, proxy/DNS/VPN drift, download-list cleanup without deleting downloads, and per-site cookie allowlists.
SCAN → CLASSIFY → PREVIEW → BACKUP → APPLY → RESTORE
Install from Cloudflare
The versioned installer and all maintenance modules are served directly from the Clintware Cloudflare Pages site. No hosted app builder or separate service is required.
The installer stores the versioned module tree under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Clintware\ContextTools\v0.3.0, creates a Start Menu launcher, and starts the local PowerShell interface.
Built-in backup model
Before mutation, affected branches are exported with Windows reg.exe. The manifest records whether each key existed before the change and which export belongs to it.
Selected browser-data files are copied under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Clintware\ContextTools\Backups\Browser before cleanup. Passwords and autofill are excluded from cleanup by design.
Admin PowerShell security boundary
The elevation path remains fixed-function. It does not accept arbitrary executables or command strings, and UAC stays enabled globally.
Evidence boundary
This remains a beta Windows utility. Browser support is currently Chromium-focused for Chrome, Edge, and Brave. Extension permission scoring is a review aid rather than a verdict. Registry Clean remains intentionally narrow and Tune-Up avoids aggressive system-wide changes.
LOCAL FIRST · AUDITABLE · REVERSIBLE · MODULAR