Windows
7 has been out there in the wild for some time now. Its been there and
its better than Vista. However the geeks that we are, we always want
more and can’t just get enough of tweaking! Making tweaking Windows 7
easier is “XdN Tweaker”.
XdN Tweaker has been around for some time and we have used it to tweak Windows XP, Vista and now it supports
Windows 7.
XdN Tweaker provides you with a number of tweaks to get the system
working the way you want it to. It provides options to tweak
UAC, file and folders views and settings, some user interface tweaks and much more.
You just need to
download
and install XdN Tweaker or if you prefer you can download the portable
version and run it as it is without having to install. This is what you
would see when you fire it up:
One of the XdN features that I loved with Vista was the
ability to modify UAC prompts,
this of course is not a problem with Windows 7 as there is a UAC
control is built into Windows 7, so you can simply launch it and adjust
the settings according to you needs.
Then there are tweaks for the right click menu. We have shown you
various tools
in the past that you can use to customize your right click context
menu. If you are looking for something quick and simple you will find
some pretty handy tweaks XdN Tweaker has to offer. You can quickly
disable the Send To menu, add copy to and move to to right click menu.
Another great feature that XdN provides is the ability to remove
program associations for a particular file extension. Let’s say you
installed iTunes and set it to handle mp3 files but don’t want to launch
it everytime you play one, change the association here. Although
Windows has provided ways to do this from quite some time now but none
of them are as intuitive and straightforward as using XdN Tweaker to get
the job done.
There are some Windows 7 specific tweaks like changing the delay for
aero peek and to disable the windows arrangement features new and unique
to Windows 7 (although I must admit I like them).
There are other nifty options like adding a “Take Ownership” entry to
right click menu for files and folders to manipulate files you dont
have permission to perform operations on, make folder views persist,
tweak the IE interface, enable disable hibernation with a single click,
change Windows performance settings, getting info and so on.
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