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Add “Move To/Copy To” context menu items in vista

December 31st, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris

Unlock for Us: UnlockMe! Tweak your Windows Vista, the easiest way when arranging your files:

Posted in: Tweaks, Windows Vista

WinBubble 1.5 - Vista Tweaking tool

December 31st, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris

WinBubble version 1.5: What’s New?
- Tweaks and Customizations -

Icon Customizations, Change your Windows Vista Icons easily
*Hard Disk Drive(s) Icon
*Documents, Pictures, Favorites, Music, Videos and Contacts Icon Customization and restoration
*Computer, Control Panel, Network Neighborhood, Recycle bin Icon
*Change your Open Folder Icon - now, it’s easy to search and navigate your Windows Explorer and Registry

Security Tab
*Disable Writing to USB Drive
*Disable USB Drive/Storage

Optimize tab
*Decrease Shutdown Time for Services
*Do not Clear Pagefile at Shutdown
*Increase the bandwidth for network and internet connections

IE Tools
*Delete All History button
*History, Cookies, Temp IE files, Form Data, Password only buttons

General Tab
*OEM Info button was added

Specific Tab
*Disable Hibernation button
*System Information button
*Show the Drive letter first in Windows Explorer
*Remove the Drive Letters

The icons shown above came from VistaIcon.com - lots of cool Free Vista Icons.

WINBUBBLE FEATURES:

Windows Customizations

• Add/Edit OEM Logo and Information’s
• Edit Owner Information
• Context Menu Customizations: Move To, Copy To, Take Ownership, Pin To, Turn OFF/ON Aero, Disk Clean-up and Winbubble launcher
• Customize Screensaver (Bubbles, Ribbon and Mystify)
• Customize and Remove the Arrow on Shortcut icons
• Desktop Icons: Show IE, Computer, Network, Control Panel, Username folder and Public Folder to Desktop.
• Hacking Windows Experience Score
• Re-enable Hibernation
• Enable Aurora Bootscreen guide
• Launch WinSAT Aurora
• Show Windows Vista Build on Desktop
• Enable Slow-Down Animations
• Enable/Disable Welcome Center

IE Customizations

• Internet Explorer Window Title
• Start Pages
• Enable/Disable Pop-up Blocker
• Enable/Disable Phising Filter
• Enable/Disable Download Complete Notification
• Enable/Disable ClearType font
• Remove Search Box
• Hide Command Bar

Optimizations

• Speed-up Start menu search (Stops searching the File index, Favorites and History, and Communication files)
• Clear Multiple Monitor Configuration
• 3 ways to turn off Windows Aero, Increases Performance for Gaming and Battery Usage

Security

• Remove “New” in Explorer’s Context Menu
• Remove “Folder Options”
• Disable Taskmanager
• Disable AutoPlay in All type of media
• Disable access to Display Property
• Disable access to Control Panel
• Increasing security by forcing to input the Username before entering the windows
• Add Encrypt/Decrypt to Explorer’s Right-Click Menu (Context Menu)
• Enable/Disable UAC
• Disable RUN command in the Start Menu and Task manager
• Hide ALL Fix Drives
• Hide a specific Drive
• Hide Shutdown button and options in the Start Menu
• Internet Explorer Security settings 1: Disable File->New, File-> Open, Save As, View Source, Favorites, Right-Click, Download, Tools->Internet Options.
• Internet Explorer Security settings 2: Internet Options Window, Hide General Tab, Security Tab, Privacy Tab, Content Tab, connections Tab, Programs Tab, Advanced Tab

http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2007/11/winbubbles-features-gap.html

Posted in: Software, Tweaks, Windows Vista

Winsplit revolution

August 10th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris

What is WinSplit Revolution?
For what? WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allow you to separate your screen into two, three or four…
For who? Especially suitable for high-end LCD screens with big resolutions, WinSplit Revolution helps you to manage efficiently active windows. For example WinSplit is useful for owners of Dell 2407FPW. You can see on Screenshots the advantages of this software, your screen is “splitted” so that you are able to display up to 6 no overlaping windows at the same time.

Features and options:

• automated window handling (resize, move, reorganize, close tasks)
• shape - process association
• global hotkeys and clickable virtual numpad
• automatic startup

WinSplit Revolution

Posted in: Software, Tweaks, Windows Vista, Windows XP

AMD Dual-Core Optimizer

March 23rd, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris

AMD Dual-Core Optimizer - The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core’s Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.

AMD Athlon™ 64/FX Processor Utilities & Updates:

Posted in: PC Gaming, Software, Tweaks, Windows XP

GSM customisation suite

March 14th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris

In the year 2006, the Customize.org community was in turmoil — between squabbles over leadership, a decline in both the quality and quantity of submissions, and a general unease, it hardly resembled the Custo innumerable members had grown to love. It was clear the community could not continue like this. Something had to be done.

Enter Gypsy Space Muffin. Here was a place free of the constraints of Custo. A place where an already close-knit group of people could grow even closer, all the while welcoming new members into the fold. What was once Tab’s (aka colossus72) personal portfolio site had blossomed into a community all its own, with a user base free of the cynicism bred by other sites. The growth was staggering; from the early days of ten or twenty members to the current 170-plus, one thing has remained constant: camaraderie. New friendships have been formed; old friendships have been strengthened.

And, now, with the release of the GSM suite, a new zenith has been reached. The Customize community’s finest artists, working en masse to craft skins and themes for the most popular applications, all done in the inimitable style of the Gypsy Space Muffin forums. From all of us at GSM, we hope you enjoy using this suite as much as we enjoyed making it.

GSM - Welcome to the Underground:

Posted in: Tweaks, Wallpapers

Windowblinds 5.5

March 14th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris

Stardock released WindowBlinds 5.5 today. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to customize the look and feel of the graphical user interface of Microsoft Windows. By applying “skins”, WindowBlinds can change title bars, borders, push buttons, scroll bars, the taskbar, the Start menu and virtually every element of the Windows environment. Thousands of different skins exist and can be created using a free program called SkinStudio.

WindowBlinds 5.5 is a major update in that it is the first program to allow users to change the look and feel of Windows Vista. Thanks to a new technology called “SmartSkinning”, WindowBlinds allows skins created for Windows XP to be used to skin Windows Vista. WindowBlinds 5.5 then transforms the skin, on-the-fly, to conform to the new user interface conventions of Windows Vista to give it a distinctly Windows Vista look and feel. Users of .msstyles files on Windows XP can use SkinStudio to convert their favorite .msstyles to WindowBlinds 5.5 to run natively on Windows Vista.

http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

Posted in: Software, Themes, Tweaks, Wallpapers, Windows Vista, Windows XP