Cocktail's features are arranged into five categories that helps you manage various aspects of your computer. It also comes with an automatic Pilot mode that allows you to simply press a button and relax, knowing that Cocktail will take care of the rest.

Cocktail is installed at more than 250 000 computers world wide. The largest part being private individuals, but Cocktail can also be found at large international companies, educational institutions or newspapers.

Disks

• Automatically check S.M.A.R.T. status of disks


• Enable or disable journaling


• Set disk sleep (spindown) time


• Modify standby delay


• Change other disk sleep settings


• Force eject CD/DVD

System

• Run periodic maintenance scripts


• Purge inactive memory and optimize virtual memory usage


• Manage Spotlight indexing


• Erase Spotlight indexes


• Modify Time Machine settings


• Rebuild Launch Services and Help databases


• Rebuild Mail's Envelope Index


• Update locate and whatis databases


• Force empty the Trash


• Change startup mode or set startup delay


• Disable startup sound


• Disable Notification Center and App Nap

Files

• Clear system caches


• Clear user caches


• Clear font caches


• Clear virtual memory swap files


• Clear temporary files


• Clear Internet caches


• Clear DNS cache


• Clear Mail downloads


• Clear cookies, download lists, form values and history files


• Clear Adobe Flash Player caches and cookies


• Clear applications caches


• Search for corrupted preference files


• Delete unnecessary localization (language resources) files


• Clear and manage (view, print and save) log files


• Delete invisible DS Store files


• Delete locked or inaccessible items

Network

• Change speed, duplex and MTU of network cards


• Easily optimize network settings for common connection types


• Modify IP configuration parameters


• Configure File Sharing settings

Interface

• Customize look and features of Finder, Dock, login window and other system services


• Modify hidden settings of Safari, iTunes and Launchpad

Pilot

• Clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button


• Schedule clearing of caches and log files as well as run of periodic maintenance scripts