Five Best Windows 7 Tweaking Applications
Posted in category: tweaking at: 14/11/2011 by pembodohan89
Windows 7 Tweaking
Windows 7 has been well received both critically and on the street. And while Pnjalumnitracer readers love Windows 7, a well-built OS isn’t a perfect OS. Check out these five applications that tweak Windows 7 and customize it to your heart’s content.
A stock Windows 7 installation a fairly pleasant place to work, judging from our readers’ reports. Even so, a little tweaking of its behavior, looks, and other features lets you optimize and personalize that desktop. Check out these five great tools for doing so.
God Mode (Windows, Free)
The “God Mode” in Windows 7 isn’t quite like a video game God Mode—alas, no infinite laptop battery life or unlimited bandwidth—but it is a pretty nifty hack, and doesn’t require any new installations. Create a new folder on your Windows desktop, save it with the name God-Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}, though you can substitute whatever name you want for “God-Mode.” The folder will change icons, and when you click on it, you’ll see every configuration option available in the control panel. That’s the real power of the Windows 7 God Mode—it takes all the toggles you have to dig through the control panel menus and sub-menus to get to, and puts them right in one master list. It’s worth trying out God Mode just to see settings you may not have even been aware of.
Regedit (Windows, Free)
The Windows registry is a treasure trove of tweak-friendly variables and values. You shouldn’t muck around in it blindly, but by reading up on specific variables, you can tweak all manner of things that slightly irk you. If you’re not comfortable directly editing your Windows registry, we’d advise you to check out some of the other Windows tweaking applications in the Hive Five. Many of the settings they provide are just a neat graphic interface for the variables hidden in the bowels of the registry.
Windows 7 Manager (Windows, $40)
Windows 7 Manager doesn’t do anything that you can’t do with various pieces of freeware or registry tweaks, but it does roll together dozens of functions into a unified, simplified interface. Not only can you tweak the GUI of Windows 7 but you can also tweak your boot routines, find duplicate files, securely erase files, retrieve and backup software keys, and more. Windows 7 Manager comes with a 15 day trial, so you can pit it against the free options in today’s Hive before shelling out your hard-earned cash.
Rainmeter (Windows, Free)
Rainmeter is a skinning application for Windows, but that doesn’t quite do it justice. You can do nearly anything with data using Rainmeter, from embedding the weather into your desktop to massaging the entire way you interact with your OS into something new. If you look at your Windows desktop and go beyond thinking, “I wish the taskbar had different spacing,” and more toward, “I wish my Windows interface looked like something totally new and Star Trek-flavored,” then Rainmeter is for you.
Ultimate Windows Tweaker (Windows, Free)
For those of you that remember and loved the TweakUI utility from Microsoft, Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware tool that takes the concept of the old TweakUI and supercharges it for Windows Vista and 7. You can tweak hundreds of settings and variables—system tray icons, the menu pop-up speed, security settings for the control panel, and a lot of other things you can’t normally get to. It’s a 380 KB, stand-alone portable application, so if you’re curious to see just how many things you can tweak, it’s no hassle at all to take it for a spin.
Now that you’ve had a chance to look over the top five applications for tweaking Windows 7
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Thanks for sharing these Free Softwares.
Great and descriptive information. Thank you.
Computer Repair London
I agree with you!! Excellent advice!!!
Just wanted to thank you for all the tweaks and tricks. I am not a huge fan of windows 7 but it came pre installed on my computer. Some of these seems pretty cool and thanks for the easy to follow dorections. Gonna try it out now.
Great article, thank you. I haven’t tried Rainmeter for years, thanks for reminding me about it!
Some are very interesting and helpful, thanks for sharing.
Very informative post. Thanks for taking the time to share your view with us.
Windows 7 comes with a unique yet great features that gives and personalized yer customized look!
I am very happy with the appearance feature by Windows 7. I am also looking forward for the Windows 8 and hoping that it will leave windows 7 behind.
Thank you for the info. Was looking for something like this. Nice and comprehensive.
ha. rainmeter and God mode are really cool. In laptops, at least if you are in God mode you don’t have to open multiple windows to do things.
Thanks for the great tips. But im missing TuneUp Utillities!
Thanks for sharing these excellent tips!
God mode sounded good, but doesn’t seem like anything special – but that rainmeter I am going to have to get. That looks amazing….
Thanks
Computer Repair Beaumont
I really use this operating system.are this is a part of window’s 7.plz answered me.thanks.
If you want hidden Desktop Themes in your windows 7 then this is for you.
1. In the search box in the Start menu, type C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and press Enter. (Note: If Windows 7 is installed in a drive other than C:, use that letter instead.)
2. Windows Explorer will launch and show you a list of subfolders under C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT: MCT-AU, MCT-CA, MCT-GB, MCT-US, and MCT-ZA. Each subfolder has wallpapers for a specific country: AU for Australia, CA for Canada, GB for Great Britain, US for the United States, and ZA for South Africa.
For any of the countries whose wallpaper and themes you want to use, go into its Theme folder, for example, C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT\MCT-ZA\Theme. Double-click the theme you see there (for example ZA).
Maybe only 1% of the Windows 7 usesrs are aware that there are many hidden wallpapers inside this OS. This will be a fun tweak to my friends who does not know this exist. I love the elephant wallpaper so I will change my boring wallpaper today.
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Windows will continue to be the best OS! Even after 10 years, this post will be a testament that Windows is still the King. Thanks for the tip to stop container.exe, now my Windows will have more fire and will be sleek like a fox.
Hello pnjalumnitracer! Windows 8 is just around the corner, it will be release on October 2012. I hope that the 5 tweaks presented in your post will still work on windows 8. Thanks for the “God mode Tweak” . Peace.
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I agree with your point of view on this topic. I think this needs to be discussed more among the general population.
its looking very nice. but some time while tweaking virus attack on pc and may be corrupt the OS.
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Thanks a lot! These really are great application!
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