Xdn Tweaker Updates To Tweak Windows 7

I'm very persnickety indeed!

Raul Montana

I think you'd have to be really pernickety to value any of the tweaks this program offers.

just_laze

I installed Windows 7 RC over the weekend on my laptop in less than 1 hour, it's running smoothly. I had to do those tweaks myself though. I'll have to try this when I go home :)

Raul Montana

Too bad this isn't working on my XP machine, even though I meet the stated requirements.
"The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem"

Jigen

I think this should be a goal for Microsoft:

When others don't have to make tweaker apps to get done what they need to, windows has reached the pinnacle of its UI usability. It just bothers me that most of these things that these programs tweak are simple little things that could be added to options windows with a little radio or tick button, and increase the usefulness of the product, but instead they bury these options in piles of useless, uncleaned, and untrimmed code.

@imagefrozen:
nevermind. works now.

Link not working for me : S

Anyone else have the same problem?

The lifehacker effect strikes again. Looks like most download sites point back to the author's website. So, I doubt we'll be able to download from there any time soon. I did find a working one here though:
[www.freewarefiles.com]

mercado79

Skinning of Windows 7 is what I really want!

JellyDoodle91

Doesn't Tweak UI (for XP) do a lot of the same stuff?

@just_laze: well they're advertising to the right people then!

@Swizzler121: This has nothing to do with usability, but with profitability.

Big consumer market IT companies usually aim to make hard to break features easy to use...and features that are easy to break, hard to use. This way only the users that are "worthy" of the company's support, know how to access them without easy tools.

They purposely let other companies create software that breaks this principle (allowing easy access to powerful settings), as to avoid having to spend their own precious 3rd line IT support time (= money) to "n00bs". It's not worth the time, money nor the risk of losing customer satisfaction because of computer hobbyists holding Microsoft responsible for their own f*ck ups while messing with Windows' internals.

(note that I'm playing devil's advocate here)

@JellyDoodle91: patience, grasshopper

Kiri Komori

BORING. Already did this stuff through local security policy on my laptop & group policy on my servers.

@Swizzler121: Eh. More options and tweaks are not necessarily better. For most users Windows already has too many options and too much power. That power in the hands of lusers is almost always bad. What most people need from a computer is an internet kiosk or video game console that connects to the net, and can run MS Office. Gamers, developers and other geeks like to tinker and want those tweaks, but such folk are the minority.

As for "bloat", you should consider how many platforms Windows needs to support. Hundreds of mobos and dozens of CPUs. Then there's all the software that has to run on it.

Apeiron242

@nitzua:

Was about to say that myself! I can't see anything that's not doable through TweakUI Powertoys or the control panel.

Just seems to round up a bunch of what the developer might consider "cool" tweaks into one place.

A good idea, it's been done before, but the application doesn't actually do anything unique. That's what makes applications worth installing.

Robert Cambridge

@Raul Montana:
It's odd. I installed the 7 RC as well, but it took WAY longer to install than some of the earlier builds. I was running 7048 previously and that installed in less than 30 minutes. The RC took about an hour.

Fishy007

@Fishy007: The extra 30 minutes are to send all your personal photos and others files to the MS servers for scrutiny.

harrykitten