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Tweak Windows Vista with Vispa
by Brad Linder Jun 18th 2007 at 7:00PM
For example, you can easily convert your start menu and theme to Windows Classic, (which you could also do through the control panel), or you can enable "fast shutdown," which basically changes some windows registry settings to decrease the amount of time Windows will wait for unresponsive services to terminate before shutting down.
Vispa has a strong focus on privacy, allowing you to disable error-reporting, automatic updates, and other communications with Microsoft.
When you start Vispa, it also gives you the option of undoing all of your previous changes. If you've already manually changed some of the settings included in Vispa, you might want to be careful about choosing the restore option, as it might undo those changes as well.
[via CyberNet]
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trying said 12:31PM on 6-19-2007
am I the only one who had virus scan alert the download as malware?
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eoghancampion said 4:06PM on 6-19-2007
AVG Free didn't find a virus.
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john said 10:07PM on 6-19-2007
there are a lot of false-positives when it comes to executables compiled with nsis (such as this program)
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives
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jan said 10:07PM on 6-19-2007
it's not a virus, but a false positive (see http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives for more)
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