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Review of Stardock's TweakVista
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.'"
5 hours of coding, to me, is at the very least $60 worth of chargeable time.
Which is cheaper now?
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
It 's another piece of bloatware from Stardock 's Inc.
From the story: "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."
Chapter 3: The old story. How to get a Windows operating system to work the way you want, with 3rd party tools and lots of time.
Oh well, I suppose a life working on Windows is better than playing canasta or knitting booties for your dog.
This video explains a bit about the User Account Control in Windows Vista.
"You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or allow?"
It's those darn DVD's. Ever since Apple included CSS DRM capability in their OS, I just don't trust them. Once that DRM sneaks in, it infects your whole computer!
And Windows XP? It has DRM too! It can play Windows Media files WITH DRM! I KNOW that it's h4x0ring my computer AS I TYPE!