Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source, Windows x64
Open source tweaking app Vista Services Optimizer adds Windows 7 love in v1.2
by Lee Mathews Sep 30th 2009 at 1:00PM
It also allows you to create different profiles, provides a one-touch gaming mode, can take automatic service state snapshots, and offers painless recovery of Windows default settings. Version 1.2 is also Windows 7 friendly (64-bit builds included).
VSO is also a nice app for casual tweakers -- you don't have to know what each Windows service does or whether or not you can do without it. Just answer the (mostly) plain English questions VSO asks, and it takes care of making the necessary changes to your services. The built-in Rescue Center makes undoing changes totally painless.
Vista Services Optimizer is offered both with an installer and as a portable utility (host machine must have .Net 3.5 installed). Downloads from the developer's site can be a bit slow, but you can also find VSO over at Softpedia.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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John R Dye said 6:38PM on 10-01-2009
The newest (Win-7 enabled) VSO version wiped out my LinkSys internet connection and also prevented my reinstallation of LinkSys in my Vista 64-bit system after I ran it.
Fortunately, they provided a recovery mode so I could reinstall my original Windows services so my reboot restored my wireless internet connection.
The first thing I did was uninstall VSO from my computer.
You may forward this comment to them -- I didn't even look for a contact address.
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polobunny said 9:18PM on 9-30-2009
Wait... so you're saying this caused you a problem, that the program fixed after, but yet you uninstalled it?
Why do you think there is a recovery mode? o_O
maf teechr said 6:25PM on 9-30-2009
Wonderful app. Definitely shows increase in performance while gaming.
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