UNIBLUE SYSTEMTWEAKER User manual

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Applying Tweaks
To apply a tweak, select Tweaks from the navigation panel. A menu on the left-hand side allows you to
select from different tweak categories.Tick or untick the boxes of the tweaks you would like to change and
click Apply.
Note: Some tweaks will only be implemented after you restart your system. A pop-up will inform you
whenever this is the case.
SystemTweaker Quick Start Guide
SystemTweaker is a safe and easy-to-use tool to customize Windows to your
taste.This quick start guide will help you to install the product and start
using it.
Downloading and installing
SystemTweaker is offered exclusively as a free product with the purchase of other Uniblue software.
• After purchasing your software you will receive an email with your order details, a link to download your
product and a serial number for activation.
• To download, click on the SystemTweaker download link and, if prompted, select Save.Then locate the
.exe file and double click on its icon to start the installation wizard.
• Follow the wizard by clicking on the Next button.
• The wizard will prompt you to enter your serial number to activate your product. The serial number can
be found in the order details email sent to you after purchasing the product.
Interface overview
1. Navigation panel: click to navigate across
major interface categories.
2. LiveUpdate box: provides registered users
covered by ActiveProtection access to
product updates as they become available.
3. System overview box: provides shortcuts to
critical system controls.

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Tweaks outlined
This is a brief outline of the tweaks you can apply through SystemTweaker. As some tweaks are only
available for particular operating systems, each tweak is listed together with the version of Windows it
applies to.
Start menu
Show Start menu icon tweaks (XP,Vista, 7): These tweaks allow you to show or omit icons from the
Start menu.
Enable Start menu scrolling (XP, Vista, 7): Windows can use multiple columns to display Start menu icons.
With Start menu scrolling,Windows keeps the single column format but adds scrolling functionality.
Control panel
Disable remote administration access to floppy drives/CD ROM (XP,Vista, 7): When remote access is
allowed, other users on your network can access your data.Access can be disabled for security.
Load balance multiple network adapters (XP, VISTA, 7): Balances the network load equally between
multiple network cards if available.
Enable print server notification messages (XP, Vista, 7): When enabled, any server notifications are
displayed automatically as a taskbar popup.
Broadcast new shared printer availability over network (XP,Vista, 7): If switched off, shared printers will
not be available for use by other networked computers.
Hide Network File Share passwords with asterisks (XP,Vista, 7): When enabled, passwords used to access
shared files are displayed as asterisks.
Disable printer sharing (XP): Disabling ensures that no one on your network can make use of printers
connected to your PC.
Disable file sharing (XP): When disabled, other network computers cannot access shared files.
Hide my computer from Network Browser list (XP,Vista, 7): Hides your computer from others on your
network.
Enable remote access to the registry for all user types (XP): When enabled, all users can access your
registry.
Show network error statistics (XP,Vista, 7): Adds an extra statistics tab to the network connection status
menu.

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Media
Enable DVD features in Windows Media player (XP): Enables Media Player to open and play DVDs.
Automatically start data CDROMS/audio CDs when they are inserted (XP): When enabled, CDs launch
automatically once inserted.
Enable faster access to AVI media files (XP): Accelerates folder access to AVI movies by blocking the
loading of unnecessary data.
Windows startup and shutdown
Allow Windows password caching (XP,Vista, 7): When disabled, a user needs to enter his Windows
password every time he accesses a password protected resource.
Allow Desktop to load while login script is running (XP,Vista, 7): When enabled Windows Desktop loads
before login script stops running.
Clear page file each time Windows is shutdown (XP,Vista, 7): When enabled, the file used for virtual
memory is deleted upon shutdown.
Right-click menu
Suppress the Windows Explorer default right-click menu (XP,Vista, 7): By default, shortcut menus appear
when you right-click on the Desktop or on a Windows explorer window. If you enable this tweak, menus are
suppressed.
Add open with option to Windows Explorer (XP,Vista, 7): The ‘open with’function allows you to select a
program of choice with which to open a particular file.
Suppress the right-click context menus for the Windows Taskbar (XP,Vista, 7): Hides the menus that
appear when you right-click on the taskbar.
Add Open Command Prompt option to Windows Explorer (XP,Vista, 7): This tweak adds to a right-click
menu the option to open a command prompt set on the same directory where you right-clicked to open
the menu.

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Advanced Windows settings
Automatically reboot Windows when a blue screen of death occurs (XP,Vista, 7): Sets Windows to
automatically reboot when a critical system error is encountered.
Suppress PC speaker beep when system errors occur (XP,Vista, 7): When the system encounters an error,
the PC speaker is programmed to beep to provide a warning.This tweak removes error beeps.
Show more detailed information in Windows Device Manager (XP): Sets Device Manager to display extra
information within the Details section of the Properties tab.
Launch Windows Desktop as a separate process (XP): Windows normally launches a single process
for the Windows Desktop,Taskbar and all other explorer tasks.This means that if the process fails, all the
aforementioned tasks would fail in conjunction. Launching Windows Desktop as a separate process
increases the Desktop’s resilience.
Preserve program performance during print jobs (XP,Vista, 7): This tweak ensures that print jobs do not
slow down your program by taking too large a share of system resources.
Administrative
Automatically focus windows when mouse passes over them (XP,Vista, 7): With this tweak enabled, the
operating system will activate any window the mouse hovers over.
Show tooltip for Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons (XP,Vista, 7): By default, whenever the mouse
hovers over the minimize, maximize or close button on the upper right of each window, a tip box appears
to explain the button’s purpose.This tweak disables this tip mechanism.
Use connected web files and folders (XP, Vista, 7):HTML documents saved to hard drive often include a
number of associated files linking to the primary HTML document.This tweak connects the primary HTML
file to the associated files so that when you move the primary document to a new location, the associated
files are copied simultaneously.
Use Explorer when opening my computer (XP,Vista, 7): Opening my computer using Explorer provides a
useful folder navigation pane.This tweak ensures that you get the navigation pane whenever you open my
computer.
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