Space Crew Utility

🪐 Space Crew Utility

Space Crew Utility is a vibrant, vaporwave-inspired system cleaner built with Electron, designed to turn routine system maintenance into a calm, guided ritual.

When launched, it opens a real-time galactic overlay featuring your animated crew, live progress updates, and glowing status logs — all while safely cleaning user-level system and browser caches.

It’s more than a utility — it’s a moment of system clarity ✨

For the full source code, visit the repository:
https://gitlab.com/dobybaxter127/space-crew-utility

⚙️ Features

- Live animated overlay with neon sci-fi / vaporwave aesthetic

- Real-time cleanup progress with auto-scrolling terminal log

- Safe Windows cleanup (Temp folders, browser caches, optional update cache handling)

- Graceful handling of protected or locked files

- Clear separation between Safe Cleanup and Repair Mode

- Compact, portable .exe build (no installer required)

- ESC key instantly closes the overlay when finished

🧼 How It Works

Space Crew Utility runs a sequence of safe, transparent cleanup steps, reporting progress back to the overlay in real time.

Cleanup Steps

1. Clean user temporary files

   Command: del /s /q "%TEMP%\*.*"

2. Clean Windows temp (admin only)

   Command: del /s /q "C:\Windows\Temp\*.*"

3. Reset Windows Update cache (safe rename)

   Command: ren "%windir%\SoftwareDistribution" SoftwareDistribution.old

4. Clean Edge & Chrome caches

   Command: del /s /q "%LocalAppData%\...\Cache\*.*"

Notes:

- Steps that require administrator privileges are automatically skipped when not permitted

- All actions are logged live to the overlay

- No destructive system changes are performed in normal cleanup mode

🛠 Repair Mode

Repair Mode is reserved for advanced or future system repair actions and requires administrator privileges.

- If launched without admin rights, the user is clearly informed

- No repair actions are executed unless explicitly enabled

- This mode is designed for careful, intentional use

🎨 Visual Overlay

The animated overlay includes:

- Matrix-style animated background

- Floating crew members with gentle motion:

  - Captain Kernel 👨‍🚀

  - Nexa 💚

  - Foxy 101 🦊

  - Gyzmo 🤖

  - Scientist 7 🧪

  - Sharky 🐶

  - Lost in the Algorithm 🤯

- Progress bar with percentage feedback

- Live terminal-style log output

- ESC key to safely exit the overlay at any time

🌈 Final Notes

Space Crew Utility is built with care, transparency, and respect for the system it runs on.

It’s designed to feel friendly, deliberate, and reassuring — even when doing technical work.

This is it 🌱