Stardock TweakVista

Microsoft has increased both the power and complexity of its popular Windows operating system with the release of Windows Vista. Stardock’s TweakVista™ enhancement application helps you configure Windows Vista to meet your personal needs by improving performance.

Unlike other power tools for Windows, TweakVista™ automatically prompts enhancement recommendations, offering easy “one click” updates to otherwise complex configuration changes. TweakVista™ is also safe to use. By utilizing Microsoft’s system-restore technology any changes you make can easily be rolled back. You can freely experiment with different settings without disabling your computer.

Features:

Security - Tweak Vista has easy to configure security settings for managing the new security features of Windows Vista. If you've found some of the security prompts in Windows Vista getting in your way, TweakVista offers relief.

TweakVista.com Integration - Access to the latest tweaks, tips, and help from TweakVista.com, authors of the new book Hacking Windows Vistahttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=j...m-20&l=ur2&o=1.

Start-Up Manager - See what programs are being launched on start-up (even ones that you may not be aware of) and quickly find out what they are doing and whether you need them.

Recommendations – Automatically evaluate all aspects of your Windows Vista configuration with detailed, yet easy to understand, suggestions provided to help you get more control over your Windows Vista PC.

Performance Optimization - TweakVista knows all the default services on Windows Vista and many of them are not needed for most people. TweakVista can safely guide users through common user configurations to optimize performance and memory use.

Internet Optimization - TweakVista can improve your Internet surfing performance by changing the underlying Internet settings on Windows Vista to fit the capabilities of your PC.

Process Identification – Leveraging the community, users can read and create information regarding each process currently running. When a user clicks on a program name TweakVista returns information about that process to help in deciding what to leave running and what to shut off.

Assessment Comparison – TweakVista allows the user to use Windows Vista's built in Assessment information to compare their computer against other TweakVista users. Data can be anonoymously uploaded and compard against averages and top scores.



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