Tweak UI

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TweakUI is a free user interface customisation application released by Microsoft to aid end users in customising their Windows operating system. By itself, it does not do anything that would not otherwise be possible. However, it provides a simple graphical user interface for performing tweaks that otherwise would require editing the registry, which is considered by many a daunting and risky task for novice users. TweakUI is a free download from Microsoft's website.

1 History
2 Features
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

TweakUI started as a control panel applet available for download on Microsoft's website, released shortly after the release of Windows 95. It was included as part of Microsoft's Power Tools collection, a set of tools developed by Microsoft's Shell Development Team.

A new version of TweakUI was included on the install disc for Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system. However, the applet was later removed from the install discs of Windows 98 SE and Windows Me.

With the release of Windows XP, the TweakUI applet was retooled and re-released on Microsoft's website as a separate application (as opposed to the Control Panel applet for earlier versions).

[edit] Features

TweakUI allows the user to customise the user interface of the Windows operating system. The application has been heralded for enabling users with older, slower computers to turn off many of the operating system's eye candy, such as fading menus, drop shadows, and cursor shadows. TweakUI also includes numerous features to customise the way various base elements of the interface work, such as the taskbar and the desktop. The application also enables users to move the location of their Documents, Music and Pictures folders, as well as other system folders. It also includes various tools to repair elements of the operating system, such as icons, hot keys, the font folder, and file extension associations.