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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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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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