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Review of Stardock's TweakVista

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the needs-all-the-help-it-can-get dept.

mikemuch writes "The new TweakVista utility from Stardock surfaces some of Vista's more obscure settings, giving access to diagnostics and making suggestions for services that you should be running. ExtremeTech's review of TweakVista generally likes the software, and though it's called version 0.9, it is for sale — $19.95 — and feels feature-complete. More suggestions on system optimization, however, would be helpful. From the review: 'According to TweakVista, on July 1st, the "Windows Shell Services DLL service took 651ms longer to shut down than usual." That's nice. Other than this stark presentation, there's no digestible information as to why the shell services DLL took over half a second longer to shut down. And there's no hint as to what to do about it.'"

6 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. taskmanager? by pedramnavid · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ctrl-Shift-Esc is an even better shortcut for taskmanager. Does that still work with Vista?

  2. Performance Center. by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The "took longer to shut down" messages are from Windows itself. They're exactly what you get from the Performance Center. It's actually very useful when you're trying to find out which applications are making your startup or shutdown times go slow. It's something that Vista has done right, actually.

  3. CMD shell here is about same as the XP power toy by Blahbooboo3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Especially this one: Shift-RightClick on a folder and you can open a CMD shell at that location!! Fucking A! no more reg hacking.

    You do realize this is just about the same thing as the Windows XP Open Command Window Here power toy?
    Here is the link to get it for XP
  4. Nothing new by dalmiroy2k · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can do manually whatever this GUI does and for free:

    http://www.speedyvista.com/

  5. Free version by Island+Dog · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would like to make an addition that wasn't included in the review. There will be a free version available, and the $20 is for the premium version with additional features. It will also be included for people with subscriptions to Object Desktop by Stardock.

  6. Re:CMD shell here is about same as the XP power to by fbjon · · Score: 4, Informative

    The folder icon for the current folder is up in the left corner, you can right-click there. It always was there, AFAIK.

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