To amuse the amaranthine adventure for customization, or at atomic the accidental absorption that all computer users affectation back it comes to personalizing their desktop or laptop PCs, lots of bartering software, shareware and freeware has been developed to advance all of the hidden (and not-so-hidden) settings in the circuitous and cabalistic Windows Anthology file. MagicTweak v1.92 follows hot on the heels of the latest ‘release’ of the TweakUI freeware, the somewhat anachronous WinBoost 2001, Stardock’s Object Desktop, 3B Software’s TWEAKI Pro and a dozen others.
There are so abounding customization utilities out there that anniversary columnist has to acquisition a architecture which tries to ensure their software covers a characteristic approach. WinBoost consistently seemed to accept a all-inclusive arrangement of customizations to absolutely personalize Windows 95 through ME. TweakUI, Microsoft’s own (unsupported) freeware, has consistently been a affectionate of blessed aggregate of personalization and arrangement control. TWEAKUI focuses added on acrimony blocking and speed-up. Object Desktop is all about skinning, attending and feel, and the operating environment. MagicTweak has carved out its alcove in the breadth of aegis and access, with an added tip of its hat to personalization.
We approved MagicTweak on four systems: an earlier Dell Latitude CPi laptop (Pentium II/433) active Windows 98SE, a P4 Celeron 1.7GHz active Windows XP Professional, and two added Pentium III/550s active Windows 2000 Professional. Installation was uneventful. XP-specific tweaks activated appropriately on the XP systems.
MagicTweak, like its brethren, is a baby account which presents you with a pleasant, skin-able user interface that displays categorized lists of customizations. Select a class by beat an figure and a agnate account appears. Configure the class artlessly by selecting or deselecting analysis boxes. It’s easy. MagicTweak excels at ambuscade and disabling things: Ascendancy Panel Applets, folders, command prompt, card items, desktop items, admission to programs, annihilation in the right-click Context menu, Internet Explorer settings. MagicTweak additionally has a area on heating up your Internet affiliation settings including optimizing the admeasurement of Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) abstracts packets and TCP/IP window (to atone for the generally poor absence ethics in the operating system). We didn’t try these because we abhorrence monkeying about with a affiliation that already works aloof fine, but these types of affiliation settings adjustments usually assignment able-bodied on un-optimized systems.
MagicTweak runs in a chat window which can’t be resized. This is occasionally a affliction because there are a few customization settings (in the Arrangement Binder class for example) which affectation continued binder paths. What’s awe-inspiring is that you can absolutely annoyance a cavalcade affiliate above the concrete dialog(!?), which again causes a accumbent slider to appear. It’s a accessory architecture boo-boo. The online advice arrangement contains alone promotional advice about MagicTweak; there’s annihilation explained about any of the settings in the software, article which will anticipate abounding users from compassionate and application abounding of the tweaks. MagicTweak is a analytic acceptable affection allotment of software but there are appropriately acceptable rivals out there for beneath money.
The software works accurately and abundantly and did not acquaint any operating arrangement or anthology instabilities. If you’re anxious about security, abnormally for a computer which has assorted users, this is the account to get. A little bit of analysis online will advice you accept some of the aegis tweaks and may advice to accomplish MagicTweak a admired arrangement utility.
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