Setting up Windows 7 with twigs. Twiglers for Windows: overview of the topics of the system customization of the system

If you remember the events that preceded the output of previous versions of Windows, one regularity can be found. Whenever the user came out before choosing, whether he remained on the old system or move to a new one, he expressed his skeptical attitude towards a novelty and mercilessly criticized the proposed version. Such a strict position is quite understandable - as a potential buyer, the user has the right to critically approach the quality of the goods and, perhaps, to a certain extent, even "bargain" with the seller - they say, and the goods are not worth such money, and the old version works fine. So it was when Introduced to the sale of Windows XP and Windows Vista, such a picture can be observed now. Despite the positive reviews of those who have already time to try out Windows 7, the user is still careful in its choice and only looks close to the new system.

Does the new Microsoft product expect a success or not, time will show. Now it is possible to approve with confidence only that while the user gets used to a new appearance of the operating system, it will take some time during which each owner of Windows 7 will be dealt with and contribute to the system settings. And this will help special twigs programs.

ENHANCEMYSE7EN FREE 1.6.1

Developer: Seriousbit
Distribution size: 16 MB
Spread: One of the reasons that motivates the user to configure the operating system is the desire to make it more familiar, similar to the previous version. Perhaps some of the new tools OS are more convenient than those in the former Windows, but they still need to be adopted. Therefore, at least at first, many users will surely consider it necessary to remove unnecessary and useless, from their point of view, interface elements, as well as create clearance in a classic style. All this can easily be done using the ENHANCEMYSE7EN FREE utility. The changes that occurred in the Windows interface are caused by many users a sense of some discomfort. The one who, working on a laptop or on a desktop computer, is used to running the standard utilities and Windows services daily, will be lost in the new design and spend your time to search for the desired tool or settings. To simplify the task, the ENHANCEMYSE7EN developers have created a special section of the System Tools utility, which placed all the main system management bodies. Each tool in this section can be run by pressing the same button. Thus, the user can quickly open the system registry editor, switch to the list of installed services, start the DIRECTX tool, the connected device manager, view the fonts installed in the system, test the memory, open the managed task manager, etc. In addition, in the program Enhancemyse7en It is possible to create shortcuts for quick system commands. By pressing one button on the Windows desktop, shortcuts are created to start the RUN commands, Log Off Computer, Restart Computer, opening the System Properties windows, etc.

With the ENHANCEMYSE7EN FREE, you can configure the main menu of Windows - "Start". True, it will not be possible to bring it to the classical species, but you can configure it in such a way that the menu is more convenient and clearer. ENHANCEMYSE7EN allows you to hide certain menu items, align the application list in it, use scrolling to scroll through the list of its items, turn off the search function.

A separate section of the program contains settings integrated to the Windows Media player. Using the parameters offered by the tweaker, you can disable the possibility of downloading from the network of additional codecs, prohibit the start of the screen keeper during the playback process, turn off the automatic update function, etc.

The Internet Explorer Tools settings group allows you to quickly use some implicit options for convenient internet surfing. For example, using ENHANCEMYSE7EN FREE you can prevent the HTML page code from the browser, turn off the phishing filter, configure the toolbar and the Internet Explorer menu. Also, users are also available settings for limiting the rights of access to the program parameters - for example, you can prohibit any change in Internet connection settings. The settings of the twigher sections that relate to the configuration of the browser will not be able to use everything. Options for managing Internet Explorer functions will be available only to those users that use the Windows 7 version with a pre-installed browser. One of the most useful functions Enhancemyse7en is to configure the Windows context menu. As various applications are installed in the system, many of the programs add their commands to the context menu of the conductor. However, for such "convenience" has to pay - the abundance of the context menu items can lead to errors in the operation of the system, as well as to cause its slow work. Enhancemyse7en allows you to clean and configure the context menu commands. Moreover, the changes that are made by the user are absolutely safe, since the program includes restoring the source system parameters of any section of the context menu. In addition to all the above features, Enhancemyse7en free has a number of additional tools for conducting preventive measures aimed at maintaining high system performance. Among them, the utility for cleaning the system registry, tool to delete temporary files, disk and registry defragments, temperature monitor and various hard disk operation parameters, utility to manage the launch of applications automatically downloading with the system, etc.

Windows 7 Little Tweaker 1.1

Developer: Leelu Soft.
Distribution size: 516 KB
Spread: Free compared to the previous tweaker, this small free utility has much more modest features. In a small window, the program displays a list of features that can be involved by the user. Among the system setup options, you can select the insufficient hard disk check function to cancel (thanks to which the system does not output an annoying message) and Windows configuration to automatically complete the fascinating applications or programs that long time do not complete your work. With this small tweaker, you can also increase the performance of the standard file manager of the conductor. Windows 7 Little Tweaker disables the display of network printers and prohibits work for job scheduler when accessing the network.

Using Windows 7 Little Tweaker settings, you can add some context menu items: command to work with the command line, command to quickly view files using the standard notepad utility, as well as the item to quickly shift the folder and file owner. Users working with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 should be borne in mind that the launch of Windows 7 Little Tweaker is impossible on it.

7TWEAK 1.3.

Developer: Ruslan Sologub.
Distribution size: 15 MB
Spread: Shareware is one of the useful features of 7TWEAK - the ability to enable / disable the User Account Control module. This annoying component, which appeared in Windows Vista, constantly pins many users, asking each time a confirmation of actions requiring administrator rights. Of course, this is done for reasons against protection against unauthorized use of a computer, however, in practice, this function is useless for many, since most use reliable firewalls and antivirus packages. With 7TWEAK, you can also disable the alerts of the built-in firewall or to prevent its use. The program can reduce the likelihood of losing confidential data by disabling password saving and auto-complete forms in the Internet Explorer browser. The program can regularly create and restore backup copies of the system registry. In addition, the tweaker allows you to increase the performance of the system by disconnecting a number of visual effects that Windows 7 are endowed with full: animation effects of folding and turning windows, three-dimensional window switching effects, various reflections effects, etc.

Unlike similar utilities for the fine configuration of Windows 7, the 7TWEAK program supports "native" mode of operation with 64-bit versions of operating systems, so that many operations (for example, a disk defragmentation operation) program performs with high performance. The utility presents an intelligent search system for garbage files, thanks to which the twigger unmistakably defines temporary and empty data, cookies files and other information that does not represent any value for the user. A huge number of useful system tools is collected in a single interface 7TWEAK: a hard disk format converter from FAT in NTFS, utility for creating a CAB archive, tool for migrating files and system settings from one computer to another, utility for a remote computer control, program for using the Finger service (Definition of user information on a remote system), virtual keyboard, etc. The program also has its own processes manager and a special utility for full deletion of any installed applications. Another group of settings about which is to mention is the options for working with Microsoft Outlook email clients and Windows Outlook Express. With their help, you can, for example, block the attachments containing executive files, include the option "Minimize client to the system tray, prohibit changes in the account settings, etc. With 7TWEAK, you can create additional virtual disks with any free letters, and In the absence of need in them, on the contrary, delete.

TWEAK-7 1.0

Developer: Totalidea Software.
Distribution size: 21.7 MB
Spread: Shareware Using twigs - the occupation is not always safe. Sometimes a rapid change in settings can not only not improve Windows, but on the contrary - lead to errors in the operation of the system. To avoid this, at the very beginning of installing TWEAK-7 will offer to make a control point of recovery, i.e. Save all the most important settings and parameters OS. In case of unsuccessful experiments, you can always make a rollback to the initial state of the system. The TWEAK-7 installation is accompanied by simultaneously integrating the tweaker in the control panel, as well as creating a shortcut for quickly turning off the computer.

The settings in this tweaker are very much, and since many of the parameters that TWEAK-7 can be corrected, refer to Windows 7's security, the program provides an option to restrict access to the program settings using a password. A large number of settings in this program did not most best affect the speed of the utility. Each time you go to a new section of system settings, you have to wait for a few seconds while the program updates the page with the parameters. However, TWEAK-7 may be useful when setting up the system, since contains different useful functions. For example, in the program, you can change the position of any system folders - My Documents, StartMenu, Desktop, etc. Another interesting feature is editing the equipment provider (OEM) and Windows user.

If the performance setting in other twisers, as a rule, looks like a simple shutdown of animation effects, then the user has a choice in TWEAK-7. You can determine which visual effects should be turned off, and what to leave. To increase the data rate in the network, the program provides a number of presets that provide optimal bandwidth, depending on the type of connection used (satellite connection, DSL / ADSL, switched compound, etc.). In addition, the batteries exchange efficiency can be increased by configuring the operation of the QoS service reserving up to twenty percent of the traffic, leaving the reserve for exchanging important system packages.

Several strange seemed that the firewall "won the" Twister won in Windows 7 did not give himself off, having issued an error message when trying to use this option. Simultaneously with this message, the ban on the launch of the firewall in the program itself was canceled. This tweaker, in addition to such "mandatory" settings, as defragmentation of the registry and cleaning the system from unused shortcuts, can also configure processor and memory modes. For example, a program can control the Windows 7 file cache size of the Windows 7 operating system, and can use several independent optimization algorithms for this. By using a special option in TWEAK-7, you can force the operating system to determine whether the processor supports some specific functions of Windows 7, such as, for example, a memory management system using a return cache. Working with a processor in a tweaker can be optimized or to perform background tasks, or for active work with applications. For those who appreciate time and do not want to understand the subtleties of numerous TWEAK-7 system settings, the tweaker offers a separate operation mode - automatic Windows 7 optimization. When you go to the AUTO Optimization program section, the user will be asked to use one of several options for optimizing the entire system. In the first case, the program performs the correction of system settings to increase Windows performance, but does not disable the effects of the visual design of the system. In the second case, the correction of system settings already includes some limitations associated with disconnecting certain effects. The last option is aimed at maximum performance - when you choose, you will not see any animation and visual effects.

SETTEMAXER FOR Windows 7

Developer: Turkiye.it.
Distribution size: 457 KB
Spread: This small utility was created in the "counterweight" bulky, multifunctional tweaks. The creator of this project was selected only by those system parameters that, in his opinion, most often correct users when setting up Windows 7. It must be said that the list is quite zuda and can be challenged, but on the other hand, some of its functions can be useful. And since the program is distributed free of charge, then its usefulness does not cause any doubts. The utility interface is simple to the impossible - priority settings are transferred to one list. The user can only notice the optimization items with which he agrees.

SETTEMAXER FOR Windows 7 can disable a number of components: task scheduler (Task Scheduler), a remote registry access service, Account Control Service (User Account Control), as well as Windows Defender component (Windows Defender), designed to delete, place In quarantine or prevent the appearance of Spyware modules. In addition, the utility may optimize the speed of the menu, setting the delay time to zero. Also, the tweaker can make changes to the system rules for completing services or applications, closing the process after a certain period of time expires. Another useful option settemaxer for Windows 7 is the cancellation of the automatic reboot in the event of a failure in the application.

Windows 7 Manager 1.1.3

Developer: Yamicsoft.
Distribution size: 4.7 MB
Spread: Shareware often in order to make outputs as to which steps you need to take to increase the performance of the computer, it is useful to look at the PC configuration. Windows 7 Manager provides detailed information on the current configuration of the computer, about all components and all the installed programs. Access to the program settings can be protected by password. In the arsenal of means to configure the system, there is a task manager, which displays detailed information about the running file - the manufacturer, priority, the amount of the occupied RAM, the duration of work, location on the hard disk, etc.

The windows for managing processes and services are very well thought out. Looking through the list of running processes, you can immediately determine the level of its safety. First, the program highlights the processes and services with different colors to show the user how dangerous they can be. If you need more information, you can select the process string in the window and click the Query Internet button. After that, the browser window will be open, which displays a page with the search results by the process name. Windows 7 Manager allows you to achieve maximum performance when working with hard drives connected using the SATA interface. In addition, the program may in force to unload the DLL library from the memory loaded by the application, which is already completed. Using a tweaker, you can open pop-ups in Internet Explorer as new tabs. Those who take care of security, it is worth paying attention to the Privacy Protector module. Using Windows 7 Manager, you can disable the memorization function on the documents open on your computer (Recents History), the history of the started applications, the history of files that played using Windows Media Player, the search history of files in the explorer. In addition, Windows 7 Manager can enable automatic cleaning of the history of the files running on the computer when exiting the system.

In the Network Settings section, you can optimize network connections. So, you can specify the type of connection to the Internet, limit the channel width when transmitting a streaming video network, set the maximum waiting time when exchanging packages.

The program developers paid a lot of attention to configuring the context menu. Using Windows 7 Manager, you can delete those elements of the context menu that are not needed. In addition, with the help of a tweaker, you can add some additional menu commands that may be useful. In case, after removing standard commands, problems have arisen related to the stability of the system, they can easily be returned to the context menu. In Windows 7, Manager has broad tools to configure the appearance of the system. Among them, you can select the manager to manage the wallpaper of the desktop, with which you can set the automatic shift of the pattern on the desktop at regular intervals. In addition, it is worth noting the settings for managing the appearance of the updated Windows 7 taskbar. The program makes it possible to turn off the sketches of the pages generated by hovering on the mouse cursor label, reduce the size of the icons, disable the context menu for the taskbar, etc. one of the use of this tweaker - Run a special optimization wizard. In this mode of operation, the user is invited alternately to apply twelve tools. Moreover, for each of them, the program gives simple recommendations, which settings should be included, and what to use only in the extreme case. The optimization wizard can be very useful, for example, to disable unnecessary services. All you need to make a user is to answer simple questions like: Do you have a tablet if you use the printer, do you print documents, etc. Guided by the responses received, Windows 7 Manager will turn off unnecessary services.

Conclusion

An experienced user can perform a fine tuning of the operating system without resorting to the help of special utilities. But even he will not deny that the collected settings for optimization can noticeably save time. Twitter programs are a good way to quickly and without any particular problems to complete the Windows 7 configuration and bring the system to the desired mind. Note that the program described in the article is probably only the first swallows designed before the release of the final version of Windows 7. After the new operating system is officially released and starts to conquer user computers all over the world, the choice of optimizer programs is likely to be It will be much wider.

Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a portable application that does not require installation on a system that is intended exclusively for Windows 7 and will not work on other versions of Windows. Just just download the application, unpack it into any folder and run. W7LT makes it easy to activate 14 additional useful system settings that will make it faster and flexible. In order to activate the settings, check the corresponding options in the program window flags. To disable, swipe the back process. After selecting the settings, you must click the "Apply" button.

Key features and functions

• Add "Copy to" Option in Files and Folders Context Menu (Right Click): The ability to add the option COPY TO ("Copy in ...") in the context menu of files and folders in order to be able to copy them to other places;
• Add "Move to" Option in Files and Folders Context Menu (Right Click): The ability to add the Move to ("Move ...") to the context menu of files and folders to be able to conveniently move them directly from the context menu;
• Automatically End Task of Programs Which Are Hanged: Set the Windows setting that allows you to automatically complete the program that hung up or the process of its completion was delayed for more times than expected;
• Decrease Menus Show Delay Time: accelerate the display time submenu when you open the parent menu;
• DISABLE THE LOW DISK SPACE CHECK: Disable a message on the state of the disk space, which used to be irritated before you;
• Disable Searching for a Program Which No Longer Exists: Enabling the system setting, thanks to which the conductor will not spend time on a program search, which is no longer on your system while trying to open the context menu;
• Disable "Search On Internet" Prompt in "Open WITH ...": This feature enters the ban on the launch of the programs found in the network from the "Open Usat" menu;
• Add "Take Ownership" Option in Files and Folders Context Menu (Right Click): Adding the "User Change" option for files and folders of the context menu, even if you do not have rights to it;
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