That's why we're pretty impressed with TweakNow, a Windows tweaking tool that gives you control over a ton of hard to find Windows settings. Probably the coolest feature of TweakNow is that the free program automatically backs up any changes you've made. So you can undo changes you've made by clicking the "Restore Now" button. The restore function isn't quite as robust as we'd like. And the program's help file helpfully includes installation instructions and a changelog. That's about it.
But TweakNow does let you do some pretty cool things like change the title bar text on Internet Explorer, show or hide Control Panel modules, hide programs from the Add/Remove Programs dialog, disable the Windows registry editor, disable prefetching, and hide drives from Windows Explorer.
TweakNow is free for home use and works with Windows XP and Vista.
[via gHacks]
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4-09-2008 @ 11:25AM
Mark said...
"Disable Prefetching"
Ahhhh! (slaps face with palm)
People, DO NOT do that. Why do these stupid tweaking programs keep including "tweaks" that harm your system's performance. That's not tweaking, that's crippling.
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4-09-2008 @ 5:03PM
jfjb said...
this is too dangerous of a tool for beginners
this is too stupid of a tool for a serious user
this is one too many in the plethora of "I-can-help-you" nice GUI that doesn't soot very far fortunately, but far enough to be an unwelcome sight after an "oops" situation.
Take it with a grain of salt and RTFM first before you or my sister attempts to do something between your keyboard and your chair... ( grin ) ... I meant with your keyboard and on your chair... ( did I says that, sis? )
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4-09-2008 @ 5:03PM
jfjb said...
I meant to say "shoot", of course, not "soot", although...