Thursday, February 12, 2009

Download Ultimate Windows Tweaker

Ultimate Windows Tweaker v1.0 has over 130 tweaks. These have been categorized under seven heads and can be accessed through a common interface, just like your Windows Vista Control Panel.

 

1) Personalization,

2) User Accounts & UAC,

3) System & Performance,

4) Security,

5) Internet Explorer (IE7 / IE8)

6) Network Optimization

7) Additional Options

 

Personalization:

These tweaks help you personalize your Windows Vista, just the way you want it to appear. Tweaks for basic customization for Windows Explorer, Start Menu and Taskbar, along with some performance tweaks are included here.

 

Windows Explorer

Disable full row select in Vista Explorer

Change window border padding size

Hide Detail pane in Vista Explorer

Show menu bar in Vista Explorer

Use check boxes to select items

Show Windows version on desktop

Restore folder Windows at startup

Launch folder Windows in a separate process

Always show icons, never thumbnails

Show drive letters

 

Start Menu

Add or remove items from Start Menu

Menu show speed

Disable context menu and dragging and dropping on the Start Menu

Disable highlighting recently installed programs

Don't open submenu when mouse hovers

 

Taskbar Settings

Lock the Taskbar

Restrict Locking of Taskbar

Group similar Taskbar buttons

Disable balloon tips

Disable window preview (thumbnails)

Restrict to add or remove default notification icons

-Remove Network icon

-Remove Volume Control icon

-Remove Battery icon

Remove tray icons from Taskbar

 

User Accounts & UAC

These tweaks help you manage User Account status and Customize access privileges by tweaking the User Account Control settings.

 

Welcome Screen Tweaks

Enable verbose status message

Disable to show last logged-in User Name

Require user to press Control+Alt+Delete

Enable shutdown tasks on welcome screen

Enable or disable built-in Administrator account

Enable or disable Guest account

 

User Account Control

Enable/Disable User Account Control

Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account

Elevate application without using the secure desktop

Virtualizes file and registry write failures to per-user locations

Detect application installations and prompt for elevation

Behavior of the elevation prompts for common users

Behavior of the elevation prompts for administrators

 

System & Performance

These tweaks help you to increase system performance

Waiting time to end services at shutdown process

Waiting time to kill non-responding applications

Waiting time to kill applications timeout during shutdown

 

Auto-end Non-Responding applications

Restart Windows Explorer (Shell) automatically

Forcibly unload DLLs from memory

Disable built-in feature to manage ZIP folders

Disable Search Indexing in Windows Vista

Enable support for 4GB of RAM (or more) in Vista x86

Disable Automatic Folder View discovery

 

Turn off Readyboost feature

Turn off Windows Aero user interface

Turn off Super fetch

Turn off Printer Spooling service

Turn off Tablet PC Input service

Turn off Problem and Report solutions

Turn off Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

 

Security

This page contain restrictions and security choices for Windows Explorer, Windows Update and some Windows applications.

 

System Restriction

Disable Registry Editor

Disable Command Prompt and execution of batch files

Disable Task Manager

Disable Microsoft Management Console snap-ins

Disable Win Key Shortcuts

Disable Control Panel

Disable parsing Autoexe.bat file

Restrict to change path profile folders

Disable Internet Communication

Disable Auto play function for removable devices

 

Windows Explorer Restriction

Disable Folder Options

Remove Security tab

Remove CD burn feature

Remove Windows Explorer's default context menu

 

Windows Applications Restriction

Disable Windows Calendar

Disable Windows Collaboration

Disable Windows Mail

Disable Windows Error Reporting

Disable Windows Media Center

Disable Windows Sound Recorder

Disable Windows Movie Maker

Disable Windows Mobility Center

Disable Windows Sidebar

Disable Windows Defender

Disable Windows Firewall

 

Windows Update Settings

Disable all Windows Updates

Disable automatic restart after Windows Updating

Disable Windows Update Service

Remove access to all Windows Update features

 

Internet Explorer

The Tweaker detects the your IE version and adjust controls according to IE version and currently supports IE7, IE7 with SP1, IE8 Beta 1 and IE8 Beta 2.

 

General:

IE has run first time - Complete IE first run wizard

Run once has shown process

Window title

Change the location of download directory

Clear DNS Cache

Delete IE browsing history

 

Tab Browsing:

Always switch to new tab

Warn on closing multiple tabs

Open first home page when IE starts

IE behavior when a new tab is opened

IE behavior when a pop-up is encountered

IE behavior when open links from other programs

 

Controls & Toolbar:

Always show menu bar

Show favorite bar/links

Show command bar

Show status bar

Move menu bar above navigation bar

Show compatibility view button

Show refresh & stop button before address bar

View favorites and favorite bar align in single toolbar

Use large icons

Look and feel of common buttons (captions, icons etc)

 

Advanced Configuration:

 

Turn off RSS Feed discovery

Disable IE to check for updates

Disable crash detection feature

Phishing filter/SmartScreen filter settings

Bandwidth settings

 

Network Optimization

Offers options to optimize Network & to make the communication experience easier and more secure.

Limit reserved bandwidth for QoS Scheduler Service

Hide your server or workstation from general browser list

Hide entire network from Network Neighborhood

Disable Remote Desktop Sharing in the domain and network

Disable Offline Files

-Set disk space used by Offline Files

-Total size of offline files

-Size of auto-cached files

Disable default Admin and Disk drive share server

Restrict access of IPC$ for anonymous users

Disable recent shares in Network Places

Disable media sharing in Windows Media Player (free up memory from background process wmpnscfg.exe)

Enable NTLM 2 support (No more sharing problems in between Vista & earlier version of Windows)

Set global network/internet offline (includes all Windows applications that require internet for online services. ie. IE, Windows Mail etc.)

 

Additional Options:

On this page, are tweaks which allow customizing Registered User information, along with some useful context menu and desktop tweaks.

 

Registered User and OEM information

Change Registered User Information & Image and OEM information

Useful Context menu for Drives and Folders

Show "Take Ownership"

Show "Open Command Window Here"

Show "Search..." (For Vista SP1 or higher)

 

Useful Context menu for Files and Folders

Show "Take Ownership" (Files only)

Show "Copy To Folder..."

Show "Move To Folder..."

Show "Encrypt" and "Decrypt"

 

Some additional tweaks

Remove "-Shortcut" suffix for new shortcuts

Remove arrows from Shortcut Icons

Disable Low Disk Space checks

Disable Hibernation

Disable Compression in NTFS file system

Disable Encryption in NTFS file system

Enable self-healing capability of NTFS file system

Enable Encryption for Page file

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