I included system, desktop, start menu, file extensions, services and miscellaneous tweaks ordered in tabs and group boxes.
every tweak has its checkbox and shows its description as text in the bottom of the program.

Feel free to download it and test it.

Last updated: 2007-10-25
VistaTweaker 0.5 Beta
Website

there is a setup for U3 devices that comes with the program.

spanish version on its way.

So, what do you think? any suggestions and comments are welcome...

Superub idea !

What is your Programming lang.?

im using visual basic 2005. the program itself now weights about 60kb only...
if someone has any ideas, please share them so i can improve it.
i guess in bout two or three days i can post a beta version of it so anyone willing to prove it can test it. also im working on my website but i will take some more time to get it running.

thanks for the reply.

SP: i dont know if this is the right forum to post this topic, if not, please mods move it...

i always wanted a good services tweaker..perhaps include auto modes that correspond with blackvipers vista services tweak site and an auto reset to defaults mode

for services, im currently thinking on how to implement that because the use of profiles, the checking for each version and other things will take some time. my current goal is to implement at first stage a reading of current installed services and three buttons to allow manual, aumatic, disabled.

the use of profiles is something i will make but for now i want to finish all possible tweaks and then code the services settings.

well bring it on, I've done my own for XP with about 400 I never released but gave a beta out to a few
I'll test it and I do know the reg and stuff pretty good but have been busy with Vista Unattended.
Might try my Jump2Reg which works in Vista but you may have to disable UAC right now since I haven't had time to correct it because of the Vista UA stuff

I've tested about all of them

i will try to release a beta tomorrow so people an actually try it.
iim currently investigating about services and entries that are in vista to figure what they do.

will update my website and this thread as soon as i upload it.

Going to be open source?

i haven't thought about it yet. but at the very least, will be free.

Just don't go the route of X-Teq's X-Setup - they started out free, and then went commercial. Irked me to no end....

But I am working on getting Vista exactly the way I want it, so this current install, you could say, is a beta test, and I am willing to play with settings and whatnot to see if something works or does not work...

Your best bet is to leave the services alone, they're set to their current settings for a very good reason. If you allow the program you're writing to "tweak" or "alter" the services, you'll have a lot of people come complaining to you about why Product X and Product Y doesn't work.

lmfao - Ummm, OK. So, a person without Tablet PC who is not going to use either the native Windows Snippet tool nor Voice Recognition software should still leave Tablet PC Service running?

I suggest that you begin to understand a *very* simple and basic concept regarding computers:

No two computers are exactly alike, because you have all sorts of different hardware, all sorts of differnet software, and all sorts of differnet *users* and *uses* for computers.

If someone has Vista but does not like Aero (why I wouldn't know) shouldn't have to keep running services that relate specifically to Aero only. If someone is not getting on the Internet with the machine, then why bother having IPSEC related, IPv6 related, Remote Login / Desktop, and any one of several other services running? If someone is going to use their computer for gaming, and LAN parties, then why bother with services that don't directly affect such hobbies?

You should possibly understand that most knowledgeable computer users strive to get the best performance out of their machines - and that Micro$oft, in its infinite wisdom, still cannot predict *every* use, scenario, end-user, or profile that can possibly exist - so they create a nice balanced (uh, yeah....) set of services that are enabled by default so n00bs can get stuff up and running in not time.

Remember Windows XP / XP SP1? The Windows Messenger service was *on* by design from Microsoft - but that turned out to be a very nasty way for the end-user to get a system (at least) troubled by Net Send alerts and (at worst) get their PC's security compromised. Now, remember SP2? Microsoft turned off (disabled) by design *that very same service*.

So, for you to go trolling around saying that services should be left alone shows, in fact, how little you really understand regarding computers, their users, and their uses.

thanks for the reminder. check my site on the main post to get the first version and try it. there are many things to get done yet but at least can help you tweak some stuff really quick.


i think that there are pros/cons on messing with services but many users, me involded, want to enalbe/disable everything that suits our likings. i will make a statement for people not to held me responsible for problems on their computers. thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for First Beta Release
Let me check the taste of Tweaker utility for Vista

you're welcome. feel free to try it and post your comments. i already added two other tabs and other tweaks but i wont be releasing another version for a few days to wait some feedback.

Feedback submitted !

i already corrected the bugs and upload a new build to my website.
in a couple of days i will make another build with more tweaks and other features.

thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for update release
Feedback 2 submitted !

pm replied. many thanks for taking the time.
in 1 or two days i will make another release. will post here and in my website.

Hey,

That's all good, but open source is best, if possible. At least major releases? For example v0.5, 1.0, 1.1, etc. ?

If not, it's all good. I just love OS. Good job btw, looks great! Will test function later in the week, when I have more time...

Though here is a quick suggestion... I noticed check all and uncheck all (perhaps should be renamed to select all and unselect all, sounds better) really do that.

Um, I expect that only the tweaks on that tab would be checked or unchecked, not every single one. Perhaps that should be Enable All Tweaks, Disable All Tweaks, or something.

Thanks,

Will

im working on that already because i want those two buttons select/unselect all but only for the current tab, not the whole program.
i also corrected some validations and im working on more tweaks. if anyone has a detailed listing of registry tweaks for vista and want to see them in vistatweaker, please pm or give me a link. im working with my own tweaks but i want to code as many as possible.

the ones im looking for right now are performance enhancing tweaks like the ones we had with xp.

thanks for your reply.

It would be nice to use the program with the commandline.

Something like that

or


This program is a great idea!

elajua, nice. I just saw this on the another site and then saw on your site the MSFN topic link. It's a small world.
Only suggestion so far would be to put some sort of warning on exit if we really want to exit. With more and more settings one could cry if it is closed without saving the preset. Oh yes, also a preset support. Check All/None per page basis, you already noted that.

one of the things in the to-do list is to incorporate the ability to export the selected tweaks into a .reg file. i think this is more useful than to provide command line support. also i think that a command line swith for every tweak will get you a very very long line and many people won't use it just because they have to look for switches and their meaning. maybe i can incorporate some command line support in future, but not for now.

thanks for the suggestion.

it's a small world indeed
i already code the exit validation into the program. nice suggestion.
i'm working already in the per tab select/unselect feature.

thanks for the feedback.

nice job

suggestions : have a "check this page/tab" aswell as the check all, move the exit button to far top right or bottom right

Hey guys, I made a tweaker too!

http://xenomorph.net/xdntweaker/

It has some tweaks specific to Vista, XP, and 2k3.

nice effort. the program is good, the only downside is that it contains only a few tweaks, but useful ones.
some network settings changed in vista. have you looked through ms docs? many of the old tweaks for xp dont work or are useless now.

im investigain some configs for the network settings that can actually improve something (if there are any).

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Just got back around to take a look and looks like I'll have to wait a bit.
BTW I know you probably have seen the Regtweak collection here at MSFN a lot do work with Vista.

This does read if it is already applied don't it?

hi, my monthly transfer went to the roof because many sites (i don't know how) got my program hotlinked in their pages. luckily enough today receive my new hosting registration with more bandwidth. im in the process of moving everything to it.

meanwhile, the site is up here elajua.50webs.com

About readings, today i will build another release with many changes, but the readings of everytweak will have to wait a few days. maybe on monday or tuesday another build with that feature will be out. will post list of changes today though.

i already got that collection, but it will take a while to test all tweaks and to see if they work on vista.

Hi,

Nice update!

You should let the user cancel the "Force Registry Reload".

Also, yes you ask if user wish to quit via the exit button, but not the X.

Simple enough.


Also, that would be nice if the tooltips where instead displayed under Description as well. Makes it more user friendly.

I always think it is more friendly to disable buttons when they are useless. For example, disable the Clear Tab button when the user has already clicked it. Same goes with Check All, Uncheck All, etc. Makes everything more obvious to the user on how everything works. At least in my humble opinion.

Just noticed the "drag image" on bottom right of window next to Read... . This makes the user think you can change the size of the window when you can not. Perhaps you are working on that? Just checking...

Like how everything dims out when you view about. But perhaps dim the tabs as well, that is System, Windows UI, etc. Would be even prettier. lol

i just forgot to ask when closing via X button
do you mean to display tooltips AND also put it on the description?. i wasn't sure if the tooltips for the textboxes were right. maybe i wash them away and only use the description box just like all the other control. perhaps i can show tooltips only in the top menu and the buttons in the bottom on the window.

about the resize gripe, was another detail i didn't take into account.

if i disable the buttons and the menus i have to write more code, thus having some duplicate code here and there to do that. and as im using the check/uncheck tab buttons apart from the tab you're in (they are not inside the tab controls) i have to rewrite some things. im leaving them the way they are, but i appreciate your concern and your comments.

the window wim is part of about msgbox behavior but im working to implement that on the other prompts i ask with msgboxes...

thanks again.

ps: already working on next release

That's great!

(; Where is the multilanguage support? I will be happy to help you with the Turkish translation of VistaTweaker.

with regards,
Kenan Balamir

Out of curiosity, why does the tweaker attempt to access the Internet?

i have some guys that offered to tranlate it to other languages already. but i want to get it more completely done before translating.
i will post when i when begin translating it. i appreciate your offer.



it doesn't have any connect feature. are you sure is my program? have you checked where is trying to connect to? please pm or send me an email so i can check it. maybe you have some registry guard or something and you got a warning when it tried to write/read the registry.

See the pic.

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It seems to work just fine without access - but this is Windows Live Once Care firewall doing the talking....so it might, in fact, be a registry guard....Does Beta 0.2 read the registry and fill in tweaks already enabled?

I haven't looked to see *where* it is accessing, yet, but I can do so. Incidentally, this occurs regardless of whether I run it from inside the RAR or extract it to any location and run it...

OK, now this is weird. The first time I ran it extracted to the directory, it asked (see screen shot) and I selected ask again later. Well, I have run it several times more and it is not asking.

However, I saw in my WLOC settings that I have it set to ask me about every application - so it might be asking since it is a new, unrecognized app.

The strange thing is that the prompt always occurs if I open it directly from the RAR....

ok, i see.
don't worry, there is nothing inside my program that tries to connect to the internet.

at launch vistatweaker does some readings in the registry, that's normal. maybe WLOC shows you a prompt when open it from inside RAR file because when you open a file from inside an archive it decompresses it to temp folder then launch it. maybe due to this that you get a prompt from WLOC. the strange thing is that it should inform you what kind of thing the program is doing (connecting, modifying, reading the registry, etc).

if you are still weary about this, try it on another computer with other firewall/antivirus.

I have tried downloading this utility several times but the compressed .rar file appears to be corrupt. It cannot be opened by WinRAR, Stuffit or 7-Zip.

have you tried another program like 7-zip or winzip? you're the first person i heard about that has a problem with the rar file.

@elajua - worried is one thing I am not - I was curious, more than anything else, but now since I seem to have found the reason why WLOC keeps prompting me, I am fine. At least it *does* prompt me....

Oh, and no probs with the .rar on my end

have you found the reason? can you post it? some friends are using WLOC and i would like to know if you know why it prompted you.
thanks for the feedback.

How about checking displaying the current state of the tweaks when the program started. For example, if UAC is already disabled when VistaTweaker open up it would show the Disable UAC box already has a check mark in the box.

i'm working on vistatweaker right now, but im afraid a full read of all the tweaks will have to wait a little longer.
currently i think is more important to offer all sorts of tweaks, but at the same time i'm making some changes to incorporate the startup readings.
thanks for your feedback.

yep not much good if it can't read/write and also disable the same. gives one a sense of where they are in case they have trouble to disable certain things instead of trashing the whole thing.

there are so many keys in the reg(270,000 + ) and with Vistas registry virtualization it becomes harder. I use more than 4 different methods to extract/write info myself

I'd suggest you start doing that right away instead of waiting, then it becomes second hand to add both a read and a write at the same time and to tick the checkboxes. Trust me. I been there and catching up is no fun. took me several weeks

i know, i have been testing some things and realize that i better finish the reading code before moving on. you are right about catching up...
thanks for the advice.

well?
you gettin there elajua? need any help just ask, maybe someone can answer. used your app on my Bros laptop since it was a clean OEM and combined with quite a few of my own surefire speedups made it a much happier camper

glad your brother's comp is running smoothly.
im currently testing the initial readings for all tweaks and implementing some functions for it. the only help i need is to find more tweaks for vista since many of the ones i had with xp don't work.

i got the tweaks collection from this forum but many of them are for xp only. nevertheless im researching my self to find more.

Vista Tweaker is a great app! I did come across one problem. I used the remove WMP contect menu items and after that I could no longer open media files from Win Explorer. Open with worked ok. I tried re-associating the file types and mo go. Luckily I found a solution to fix (undo) the tweaks.

Start > Run>
regsvr32 wmpshell.dll

I'm sure other people have already requested the ability to undo/restore tweaks. Anyway, thought I would post this in case someone else experiences this problem.