[John L. Galt]

@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

[ajua]

John L. Galt, on Jul 31 2007, 01:23 AM, said:

@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.

[piaqt]

John L. Galt, on Jul 22 2007, 10:21 PM, said:

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.

[v_h]

elajua, on Jul 29 2007, 06:52 PM, said:

at launch vistatweaker does some readings in the registry

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.

[ajua]

v_h, on Aug 1 2007, 06:11 PM, said:

elajua, on Jul 29 2007, 06:52 PM, said:

at launch vistatweaker does some readings in the registry

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.

[maxXPsoft]

v_h, on Aug 1 2007, 06:11 PM, said:

elajua, on Jul 29 2007, 06:52 PM, said:

at launch vistatweaker does some readings in the registry

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.

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

[ajua]

maxXPsoft, on Aug 2 2007, 09:53 AM, said:

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.

[maxXPsoft]

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

[ajua]

maxXPsoft, on Aug 16 2007, 10:10 AM, said:

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.

[Disk4mat]

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.

[ajua]

i didn't experience that in my tests but thanks for posting that out. im making the registry readings before i move on so i would look into your problem when i get there.

thanks for the feedback.

[ajua]

updated post.
Version 0.5 Beta is out.

[masterb73]

Nice program.
Got a problem.
When I save the settings that I changes, I get a message "Access to registry key is denied". I am an administrator. None of my settings are changed.
This is what I want to get rid of!
Can you help?

[Legolash2o]

Hey good work

Detection of Remove shortcut overlay & Remove "Shortcut to..." doesnt work. how do i know? i have them both disabled but they wasnt ticked when i opened Vista Tweaker.

This post has been edited by legolash2o: 27 October 2007 - 03:14 PM

[ajua]

masterb73, on Oct 27 2007, 12:41 PM, said:

Nice program.
Got a problem.
When I save the settings that I changes, I get a message "Access to registry key is denied". I am an administrator. None of my settings are changed.
This is what I want to get rid of!
Can you help?

i already responded to you (i think you are masterblaster) in my site.
I will look starting tomorrow for a way to read a random registry key that is used in the security center notifications tweak. But i need to find a way to do it on every computer computer that vistatweaker is ran.

will post when i solved that.

[ajua]

legolash2o, on Oct 27 2007, 04:14 PM, said:

Hey good work

Detection of Remove shortcut overlay & Remove "Shortcut to..." doesnt work. how do i know? i have them both disabled but they wasnt ticked when i opened Vista Tweaker.

thanks for the feedback. Those two tweaks were intentionally left out of the checking because im trying other ways to achieve what i want.
i responded to your PM.

[Hanschke]

will there come a new beta soon?

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

just playing with your program and it looks good but i found a problem

on the Windows UI tab, when i check "Remove My Sharing Folders" Apply it, Uncheck it and Apply again I get an Unhanded exception saying "Cannot delete a subkey tree because the subkey does not exist."

 
See the end of this message for details on invoking 
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: Cannot delete a subkey tree because the subkey does not exist.
   at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.DeleteSubKeyTree(String subkey)
   at VistaTweaker.frmMain.ApplyToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
VistaTweaker
    Assembly Version: 0.5.0.0
    Win32 Version: 0.5.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/User/Desktop/VistaTweaker%200.5%20Beta.exe
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.VisualBasic
    Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Runtime.Remoting
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Runtime.Remoting/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Remoting.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.


 

also there is a type on that same tab "unknow file extentions"


I love the "folder list" and the "take ownership" context menu options which as i type this, I am noticing its referred to as "Directory List" in the application but "Folder List" on the context menu


as for settings that you could add how about


Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers (i've had this issue on cisco and linksys)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233

Enable Glass on non Aero card
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\DWM
EnableMachineCheck=0 DWORD (32bit)

Enable hold shift for slow Aero animations
KCU\Software\Microsoft\DWM
AnimationsShiftKey=1 DWORD (32bit)

Show Administrator on login screen
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Administrator=1 DWORD (32bit)

NoGUIBoot (alternate boot screen)

[ajua]

sorry i couldn't reply earlier. i have been busy.
i will correct the sharing folders issues as soon as i have the time.

there are many more tweaks im working on, including the ones you posted.

thanks for taking the time to post your findings and for sending feedback.

[Hanschke]

will there be a new version soon?