Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.0 is a System Optimizer product from winvistaclub.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a TweakUI-style software that allows you to tweak and customize a wide variety of Vista settings. The standalone program does not require installation and offers a simple interface that categorizes the available tweaks and offers mouseover hints with further details. Ultimate Windows Tweaker allows you to customize you to individuate your desktop, adjust security settings, tweak system performance, customize Internet Explorer settings and more. Among the features is also a unique option to add check boxes to Windows Explorer, allowing you to select multiple files without using the CTRL button.
Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable software to customize your Windows Vista to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, It can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaker detects whether you have IE 7 or IE 8 installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only.
Ultimate Windows Tweaker is an software created for ptimizing Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable software to customize your Windows Vista to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, It can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaker detects whether you have IE 7 or IE 8 installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only.
The utility has a simple easy to use user interface, with the tweaks being classified in separate heads based of their functionality. Most tweaks are hidden inside Vista, and what this tweaker does is to try and put the useful one's in one place.
The tweaks are classified under seven categories 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
Features:
1. Data Execution Prevention or DEP feature in Windows Vista
2. Microsoft Robocopy in Windows Vista
3. All about Windows Command Line, Batch Files, and Scripting in Vista.
4. Unravel Tweaks & Settings buried inside Vista's Group Policy Editor.
5. Make your Vista send you e-mails using Task Scheduler!
6. BitLocker Feature in Vista.
7. Change Vista Sounds.
8. Problem Reports and Solutions Center in Windows Vista
9. De-Mystifying The Windows Vista Registry.
Personalization:
These tweaks help you individuate 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
1. Disable full row select in Vista Explorer
2. Change window border padding size
3. Hide Detail pane in Vista Explorer
4. Show menu bar in Vista Explorer
5. Use check boxes to select items
6. Show Windows version on desktop
7. Restore folder Windows at startup
8. Launch folder Windows in a separate process
9. Always show icons, never thumbnails
10. Show drive letters
Start Menu
1. Add or remove items from Start Menu
2. Menu show speed
3. Disable context menu and dragging and dropping on the Start Menu
4. Disable highlighting recently installed programs
5. Don't open submenu when mouse hovers
Taskbar Settings
1. Lock the Taskbar
2. Restrict Locking of Taskbar
3. Group similar Taskbar buttons
4. Disable balloon tips
5. Disable window preview (thumbnails)
6. Restrict to add or remove default notification icons: -Remove Network icon -Remove Volume Control icon -Remove Battery icon
7. 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
1. Enable verbose status message
2. Disable to show last logged-in User Name
3. Require user to press Control+Alt+Delete
4. Enable shutdown tasks on welcome screen
5. Enable or disable built-in Administrator account
6. Enable or disable Guest account
User Account Control
1. Enable/Disable User Account Control
2. Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account
3. Elevate software without using the secure desktop
4. Virtualizes file and registry write failures to per-user locations
5. Detect software installations and prompt for elevation
6. Behavior of the elevation prompts for common users
7. Behavior of the elevation prompts for administrators
System & Performance
These tweaks help you to increase system performance
1. Waiting time to end services at shutdown process
2. Waiting time to kill non-responding applications
3. Waiting time to kill applications timeout during shutdown
4. Auto-end Non-Responding applications
5. Restart Windows Explorer (Shell) automatically
6. Forcibly unload DLLs from memory
7. Disable built-in feature to manage ZIP folders
8. Disable Search Indexing in Windows Vista
9. Enable support for 4GB of RAM (or more) in Vista x86
10. Disable Automatic Folder View discovery
11. Turn off Readyboost feature
12. Turn off Windows Aero user interface
13. Turn off Super fetch
14. Turn off Printer Spooling service
15. Turn off Tablet PC Input service
16. Turn off Problem and Report solutions
17. 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
1. Disable Windows Calendar
2. Disable Windows Collaboration
3. Disable Windows Mail
4. Disable Windows Error Reporting
5. Disable Windows Media Center
6. Disable Windows Sound Recorder
7. Disable Windows Movie Maker
8. Disable Windows Mobility Center
9. Disable Windows Sidebar
10. Disable Windows Defender
11. Disable Windows Firewall
Windows Update Settings
1. Disable all Windows Updates
2. Disable automatic restart after Windows Updating
3. Disable Windows Update Service
4. 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:
1. IE has run first time - Complete IE first run wizard
2. Run once has shown process
3. Window title
4. Change the location of download directory
5. Clear DNS Cache
6. Delete IE browsing history
Tab Browsing:
1. Always switch to new tab
2. Warn on closing multiple tabs
3. Open first home page when IE starts
4. IE behavior when a new tab is opened
5. IE behavior when a pop-up is encountered
6. IE behavior when open links from other programs
Controls & Toolbar:
1. Always show menu bar
2. Show favorite bar/links
3. Show command bar
4. Show status bar
5. Move menu bar above navigation bar
6. Show compatibility view button
7. Show refresh & stop button before address bar
8. View favorites and favorite bar align in single toolbar
9. Use large icons
10. Look and feel of common buttons (captions, icons etc)
Advanced Configuration:
1. Turn off RSS Feed discovery
2. Disable IE to check for updates
3. Disable crash detection feature
4. Phishing filter/SmartScreen filter settings
5. Bandwidth settings
Network Optimization
1. Offers options to optimize Network & to make the communication experience easier and more secure.
2. Limit reserved bandwidth for QoS Scheduler Service
3. Hide your server or workstation from general browser list
4. Hide entire network from Network Neighborhood
5. Disable Remote Desktop Sharing in the domain and network
6. Disable Offline Files: -Set disk space used by Offline Files -Total size of offline files -Size of auto-cached files
7. Disable default Admin and Disk drive share server
8. Restrict access of IPC$ for anonymous users
9. Disable recent shares in Network Places
10. Disable media sharing in Windows Media Player (free up memory from background process wmpnscfg.exe)
11. Enable NTLM 2 support (No more sharing problems in between Vista & earlier version of Windows)
12. 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
1. Show "Take Ownership"
2. Show "Open Command Window Here"
3. Show "Search..." (For Vista SP1 or higher)
4. Useful Context menu for Files and Folders
5. Show "Take Ownership" (Files only)
6. Show "Copy To Folder..."
7. Show "Move To Folder..."
8. Show "Encrypt" and "Decrypt"
Some additional tweaks
1. Remove "-Shortcut" suffix for new shortcuts
2. Remove arrows from Shortcut Icons
3. Disable Low Disk Space checks
4. Disable Hibernation
5. Disable Compression in NTFS file system
6. Disable Encryption in NTFS file system
7. Enable self-healing ability of NTFS file system
8. Enable Encryption for Page file SoftSea.com had fully tested, reviewed and uploaded the install files, Ultimate Windows Tweaker does not contain any adware or spyware, the latest version is 2.0, you can download this system optimizer software (186 KB) from special server of SoftSea.com. The license of this windows utility software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Windows Utility software.